Reading Your Feelings

I’m looking for more YA books (all genres welcome!) to add to my TBR and thought in return for any suggestions, I’d give some recs as well. I’ll categorize them by overall mood they provided me but since reading is subjective and everyone experiences books differently you can take that with a grain of salt. With that said, I really enjoyed all of these for one reason or another and I hope you do too!

 

Happy

I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson

Ask the Passengers – AS King

Leviathan – Scott Westerfield

Love in a Time of Global Warming – Francesca Lia Block

A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab

Simon Vs The Homosapien Agenda – Becky Albertalli

The Girl From Everywhere – Heidi Helig

Girl Mans Up – M-E Girard

Lumberjanes – Noelle Stevenson et al

 

Bittersweet

Proxy – Alex London

Far From You – Tess Sharpe

Openly Straight – Bill Konigsberg

Every Day – David Leviathan

Brooklyn, Burning – Steven Brezenoff

If I was Your Girl – Meredith Russo

Two Boys Kissing – David Leviathan

Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

 

Sad

All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven

The 5th Wave – Richard Yancey

Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

This Is Where It Ends – Marieke Nijkamp

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Pantomime – Laura Lam

This One Summer – Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

 

Angry

Grasshopper Jungle – Andrew Smith

The Summer I Wasn’t Me – Jessica Verdi

We All Looked Up – Tommy Wallach

Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender – Leslye Walton

The Wrath and the Dawn, Renee Ahdieh

Firsts – Laurie Elizabeth Finn

Gena/Finn – Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson

 

Suspense / Shock

We Were Liars – E Lockhart

Naughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

Vicious – V E. Schwab

The Walls Around Us – Nova Ren Suma

Bone Gap – Laura Ruby

Illuminae – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The Love That Split The World – Emily Henry

The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness

Not Your Sidekick – CB Lee

 

If you have a recommendation (or a few!), please feel free to leave it! Happy reading! Or sad reading, or angry reading. Whatever type of reading is fine so long as you’re reading!