Let me tell you a short story about myself.
When I was a kid (elementary days), one of my hobbies is reading encyclopedias and Nancy Drew books. I rarely get to do the latter, though, because the collection was my cousin’s and, well, it’s in their house.
Anyway, it wasn’t until I was in high school when I realized that reading novels was actually fun and that I should probably do it more often. So, almost every single day during our lunch breaks, I hike up to our school library and read books.
I honestly no longer remember most of what I read on there but I remember having so much fun while reading.
My relationship with books, though, is an on-and-off one. There are instances when I’d stop reading for months (even years) and when I find that itch again, I’d find myself reading non-stop again for years. This is why despite loving books for about two decades, I’ve only read a few.
I want that to change and I’ve set my life goal to 1000 books. So far, I’ve read 180 and while that’s not a bad amount, I want to devour more. That said, here’s a list of books that I’ve already read, divided according to the author, arranged alphabetically. Some of them would be linked back to a review or feature.
I’m hoping that before my time comes (ha, how morbid), I get to fulfill this goal. Cross your fingers with me.
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A
ALBERTALLI, BECKY
Simonverse
• Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (1)
• The Upside of Unrequited (2)
Creekwood
• Leah on the Offbeat (2)
ALBOM, MITCH
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Tuesdays with Morrie
ALSAID, ADI
• Let’s Get Lost
ANDERSON, LAURIE HALSE
• Speak
ARMENTROUT, JENNIFER L.
• Don’t Look Back
• The Dead List
ASHER, JAY
• Thirteen Reasons Why
• The Future of Us
ATTAR, LEYLAH
• Paper Swan
AUSTEN, JANE
• Pride and Prejudice
B
BARCLAY, LINWOOD
• Too Close to Home
No Time for Goodbye
• No Time for Goodbye (1)
BARNES, JENNIFER LYNN
The Naturals
• The Naturals (1)
• Killer Instinct (2)
• All In (3)
• Bad Blood (4)
BENNETT, JENN
• Alex, Approximately
• Serious Moonlight
• Starry Eyes
• The Anatomical Shape of A Heart
BRASHARES, ANN
Sisterhood
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1)
BRAYDEN, MELISSA
• Waiting in the Wings
BROWN, JENNIFER
• Hate List
BROWN, SANDRA
• The Alibi
BURKE, ALAFAIR
• The Wife
• The Ex
BUXBAUM, JULIE
• Hope and Other Punch Lines
• Tell Me Three Things
• What to Say Next
C
CARLINO, RENEE
• Before We Were Strangers
CASTLE, JENNIFER
• Together at Midnight
CHBOSKY, STEPHEN
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower
COBEN, HARLAN
• Tell No One
COELHO, PAULO
• Eleven Minutes
• Veronika Decides to Die
• The Alchemist
COHN, RACHEL
• Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List
Dash & Lily’s
• Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (1)
COOK, THOMAS
• The Cloud of Unknowing
CRONN-MILLS, KIRSTIN
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
D
DEAVER, JULIE REECE
• The Night I Disappeared
DELLAIRA, AVA
• Love Letters to the Dead
DOWNHAM, JENNY
• Before I Die
DUGONI, ROBERT
Tracy Crosswhite
• My Sister’s Grave (1)
E
ELSTON, ASHLEY
• This is Our Story
EZELL, HEATHER
• Nothing Left to Burn
F
FLYNN, GILLIAN
• Sharp Objects
• Dark Places
FORD, MICHAEL THOMAS
• Suicide Notes
FRANK, ANNE
• The Diary of A Young Girl
G
GANGCUANGO, LOUIE MAR A.
• Orosa-Nakpil Malate
GERBER, LINDA
• Trance
GRAHAM, LAUREN
• Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
GREEN, JOHN
• An Abundance of Katherines
• Looking for Alaska
• Paper Towns
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Turtles All the Way Down
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson
H
HALL, LISA
• Between You And Me
HAN, JENNY
Burn for Burn
• Burn for Burn (1)
• Fire with Fire (2)
• Ashes to Ashes (3)
To All the Boys
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (1)
• P.S. I Still Love You (2)
• Always and Forever, Lara Jean (3)
HARTZLER, AARON
• What We Saw
HENRY, APRIL
• The Girl I Used to Be
HENRY, EMILY
• The Love that Split the World
HINTON, S.E.
• The Outsiders
HODGSON BURNETT, FRANCES
• The Secret Garden
HODKIN, MICHELLE
Mara Dyer
• The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (1)
• The Evolution of Mara Dyer (2)
• The Retribution of Mara Dyer (3)
HOOVER, COLLEEN
• All Your Perfects
• Confess
• It Ends With Us
• Regretting You
• Too Late
• Ugly Love
• Verity
• Without Merit
Hopeless
• Hopeless (1)
• Losing Hope (2) DNF
• Finding Cinderella (2.5)
• Finding Perfect (2.6)
Maybe
• Maybe Someday (1)
• Maybe Not (1.5)
Never Never
• Never Never: Part 1
• Never Never: Part 2
• Never Never: Part 3
Slammed
• Slammed (1)
• Point of Retreat (2)
• This Girl (3)
HYDE, CATHERINE RYAN
• The Day I Killed James
• The Year of My Miraculous Reapperance
J-R
J
JEWELL, LISA
• Then She Was Gone
JOHNSON, ABIGAIL
• Every Other Weekend
JOHNSON, MAUREEN
Truly Devious
• Truly Devious (1)
• The Vanishing Stair (2)
• The Hand on the Wall (3)
JONES, CAROL
• The Losers’ Club
K
KENWOOD, NINA
• It Sounded Better in My Head
KINNEY, JEFF
Wimpy Kid
• Diary of A Wimpy Kid (1)
L
LAUREN, CHRISTINA
• Autoboyography
LEVITHAN, DAVID
Every Day
• Every Day (1)
• Another Day (2)
LOCKHART, E.
• We Were Liars
LOUTZENHISER, KATY
• If You’re Out There
LUTZ, LISA
• The Passenger
M
MATSON, MORGAN
• Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour
• Save the Date
• Second Chance Summer
• Since You’ve Been Gone
• The Unexpected Everything
MCCAHAN, ERIC
• Love and Other Foreign Words
MCMANUS, KAREN M.
• Two Can Keep A Secret
One of Us is Lying
• One of Us is Lying (1)
• One of Us is Next (2)
MCNAUGHT, JUDITH
Westmoreland
• Whitney, My Love (2)
• Until You (3)
MEJIA, MINDY
• Everything You Want Me to Be
MEYER, STEPHENIE
Twilight
• Twilight (1)
• New Moon (2)
• Eclipse (3)
• Breaking Dawn (4)
MILLS, EMMA
• Foolish Hearts
• Famous in A Small Town
• First & Then
• Lucky Caller
• This Adventure Ends
MORGAN, SARAH
From Manhattan with Love
• Midnight at Tiffany’s (0.5)
• Sleepless in Manhattan (1)
MURAKAMI, HARUKI
• Norwegian Wood
N
NELSON, JANDY
• I’ll Give You the Sun
NG, CELESTE
• Everything I Never Told You
NIJKAMP, MARIEKE
• This is Where it Ends
NIVEN, JENNIFER
• All the Bright Places
O
OLIVER, LAUREN
• Before I Fall
ONG, BOB
• ABNKKBSNPLAKo?!
• Alamat ng Gubat
• Ang mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan
• Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas
• Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?
• Kapitan Sino
• Macarthur
• Stainless Longganisa
P
PALACIO, R.J.
Wonder
• Wonder (1)
• The Julian Chapter (1.5)
PALAHNIUK, CHUCK
• Invisible Monsters Remix
• Rant
PARIS, B.A.
• Behind Closed Doors
PELZER, DAVE
Dave Pelzer
• A Child Called “It” (1)
• The Lost Boy (2)
• A Man Named Dave (3)
R
RANULFO
• Joker
REYNOLDS, JUSTIN A.
• Opposite of Always
ROWELL, RAINBOW
• Attachments
• Eleanor & Park
• Landline
RUSSO, MEREDITH
• If I Was Your Girl
RYAN, SHARI J.
• A Heart of Time
S-Z
S
SÁENZ, BENJAMIN ALIRE
Aristotle and Dante
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (1)
SALES, LEILA
• This Song Will Save Your Life
SALINGER, J.D.
• The Catcher in the Rye
SEGAL, ERICH
Love Story
• Love Story (1)
• Oliver’s Story (2)
SILVER, ADAM
• More Happy than Not
• They Both Die at the End
SMITH, JENNIFER E.
This is What Happy Looks Like
• This is What Happy Looks Like (1)
SPARKS, NICHOLAS
• A Walk to Remember
SPINELLI, JERRY
Stargirl
• Stargirl (1)
STEEL, DANIELLE
• Lone Eagle
STRASSER, TODD
Thrillogy
• Wish You Were Dead (1)
STROUT, ELIZABETH
• Amy and Isabelle
SUMMERS, COURTNEY
• Sadie
T
TASHJIAN, JANET
• Fault Line
THOMAS, ANGIE
• The Hate U Give
THOMAS, KARA
• Little Monsters
• The Cheerleaders
THOMAS, LEAH
Because You’ll Never Meet Me
• Because You’ll Never Meet Me (1)
TOLER, B.N.
• Desperately Seeking Epic
TORRE, ALESSANDRA
• The Ghostwriter
W
WARGA, JASMINE
• My Heart and Other Blackholes
WATSON, S.J.
• Before I Go to Sleep
WERLIN, NANCY
• The Killer’s Cousin
WEST, KASIE
• By Your Side
• Listen to Your Heart
• Lucky in Love
• On the Fence
• P.S. I Like You
• The Distance Between Us
• The Fill-In Boyfriend
Love, Life, and the List
• Love, Life, and the List (1)
• Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (2)
• Moment of Truth (3)
Y
YOON, NICOLA
• Everything, Everything
• The Sun is Also A Star
Z
ZAPPIA, FRANCESCA
• Eliza and Her Monsters
CURRENT COUNT: 202 / 1000
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