October 13: Top Ten Author Duos You’d LOVE To See Write A Book Together (aka my (Jamie’s) world would explode if Gayle Forman and Jandy Nelson wrote a book together) — might be hard to come up with 10 but still would be fun! Bonus points if you tell us what kind of book you’d like them to write!
Agatha Christie/”Carolyn Keene”
Ten Things I Want to Stop Reading About
***There are many books that I love that include the following elements. I also love a lot of the movies I used gifs for 🙂 However, I feel as though what I listed is overdone, overexposed, not well enough developed, and/or irritating in a lot of YA fiction that has come out or is coming out recently***
Love Triangles
Ten Books To Read If You Like Spooky Stories
All variations of spooky, scary, unsettling, psychological and paranomal
Top Ten Books That Would Be On My Syllabus If You Taught Underrated Series 101
(examples: YA fantasy 101, feminist literature 101, magic in YA 101, classic YA lit 101, world-building 101)
Department 19
Top Ten Auto-buy Authors
I am selective about the books I actually buy because we don’t have a lot of space, so this is more of an auto read list 🙂
Agatha Christie
Top Ten Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From
I am so glad Goodreads has a tab for this! Made this list easy 🙂
“Carolyn Keene” – 64 Books
For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator. Mildred Wirt Benson was a member of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a team of ghostwriters whose work included the Nancy Drew series.
Stacks and Shelves 