https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub Binge-worthy Reads en-us 2019-01-23 14:59:42 UTC 2023-03-20 14:12:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323520802 For poetic action, characters with unbelievable depth, and plot developments you’ll never see coming, you need to be reading Kiersten White! Whatever genre you like best, we guarantee she has something for you—and then you’ll devour all the rest, too!]]> 2019-01-23 16:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323520802 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323565783 The action! The twisting takes on historical fiction! The banter between the characters despite the stakes closing in on them from all sides! Ryan is an auto-buy author and it seems like we love each book even more than the last!]]> 2019-01-23 17:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323565783 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323591856 Patrick Ness manages to write in a way that pulls you in and refuses to let go—even when the words sucker punch you right in the gut. These books will give you alllll the feels. But they’re also kind of hilarious and action-packed and so unique, you need to read them all!]]> 2019-01-23 18:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323591856 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592357 Hello, may we suggest books that will just make you happy? Kasie West has a gift for writing pitch perfect YA romance, and each of her books is so different, but equally as adorable!]]> 2019-01-23 18:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592357 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592597 One of our favorite things about YA is just how personal we get to know the characters, and that’s never as true as it is in one of Courtney Stevens’s books. Try reading DRESS CODES and not falling in love with the whole group, we dare you!]]> 2019-01-23 18:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592597 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592736 Every time we hear that someone doesn’t read all of Mindy McGinnis’s books, we have the immediate urge to tell them just how much they’re missing out on. They’re incredible statements on our society, super inventive, and never fail to shock us. You have to read them all because each one is completely different from the last—but just as good, if not better!]]> 2019-01-23 18:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323592736 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323593282 If you haven’t fallen in love with Blue and her Raven Boys, gone racing with Puck at the start of November, or wished for a miracle after dark, you should probably get on that.]]> 2019-01-23 18:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323593282 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323593785 Dystopian worlds, twisty clone thrillers, and a girl, trapped, trying to save her own life. Strange disappearances, a cult-like 🤬—honestly, Lauren Oliver books give you everything you could ever need. We cannot WAIT for BROKEN THINGS—it might be our favorite one yet.]]> 2019-01-23 18:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323593785 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323662687 Hopefully you’ve heard of the Lady Janies—MY LADY JANE and MY PLAIN JANE are such hilarious and fantastical takes on the historical genre that we know you’ll be obsessed. And regardless, you need to check out Cynthia’s other books, to! The premises are so interesting that you’ll be pulled in from the start, and you’ll need to read them all!]]> 2019-01-23 19:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323662687 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665346 Victoria Schwab’s worlds are dark and magical, and her writing is so lyrical that you will immediately put her on your favorite authors list. Each series is so uniquely different from the last, but you’ll love them all the same—whether or not they contain a world you’d want to live in.]]> 2019-01-23 19:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665346 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665544 Want some mystery? Romance? Drama? Whatever kind of mood you’re in, there’s a Maureen Johnson book for you, and all of them are so incredibly voicey that you’ll be lost in them before you even know what’s happened. Prepare for an obsession to begin!]]> 2019-01-23 20:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665544 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665711 Claudia Gray has a gift for amping up the stakes to an unbelievable amount—but even though you’ll be at the edge of your seat, you’ll be swooning the whole way through! These books are as romantic as they are adventurous and intense.]]> 2019-01-23 20:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665711 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665950 Rae Carson writes some of the best fantasy around, and her series are both different and similar enough that you’ll immediately want to jump from one into the other! Plus, they’re GORGEOUS, so basically you need all of her books on your shelves. You’re welcome.]]> 2019-01-23 20:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323665950 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323666656 Rainbow Rowell romances are full of heart, depth, soul, and banter that will keep you laughing and swooning the whole way through. Do you need any more of a reason to read the books that brought us some of the most iconic characters in YA?!]]> 2019-01-23 20:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323666656 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323667057 Reading ILLUMINAE for the first time was basically brain-bending. The format, the story, the humor, the unrelenting creepiness—we were obsessed. And all of Amie’s other books have that same must-read, must-binge feeling, so once you start, you need to check them all out!]]> 2019-01-23 20:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323667057 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323914321 Jason Reynolds, a 34-year-old from Washington DC, didn’t grow up expecting to be a writer: indeed, he was 17 before he read a book from start to finish. But it might be his atypical background that allows him to connect so powerfully with teenage readers.]]> 2019-01-24 14:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323914321 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323918606 The people in John Green's books who feel like your friends, imperfections and all. Colin Singleton, in An Abundance of Katherines, is a veritable genius but he can’t solve love. Hazel, in The Fault in Our Stars, is obsessed with a highbrow Infinite Jest-type book but also lives for the next episode of “America’s Next Top Model.” In Looking for Alaska, of course Miles Halter falls for Alaska Young: She’s a little wild, a little dangerous, but also a most-excellent confidante to her boarding school friends. Green’s teens are real and relatable and pop-culture obsessed, not one-dimensional, slang-spewing adolescent caricatures.

]]> 2019-01-24 14:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323918606 lwgibson https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323956021 Any day now, and it might have already happened, someone’s going to purchase the 10 millionth copy of a Sanderson book. It could take place anywhere in the more than three dozen countries where his novels are sold, and in any of the more than two dozen languages they’ve been translated into. It might be a copy of “Elantris,” his first release in 2005, or maybe one of the books in the perennially popular Mistborn series, or perhaps it will be one of his Wheel of Time No. 1 New York Times best-sellers that, respectively, knocked Dan Brown and John Grisham off the top spot!]]> 2019-01-24 15:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lwgibson/sjhsbookclub/wish/323956021