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Kathy’s QuaranTEEN Reading List

Do you sometimes feel like you are living in a YA apocalyptic novel? We’ve got book suggestions for *each* of the many moods…
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

For when everyone around you is panicking because they think it’s the end of the world…

Wither by Lauren Destefano
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

For when you obsessively research everything on plagues and epidemics…

A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Echo Room by Parker Peevyhouse

When you feel like the walls of the room are starting to close in on you…

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

For when you need a good cry to get all those feelings out…

The Secret Language of Sisters by Luanne Rice

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

For when you start dreaming of a utopian society with NO conflict and NO disease…

Wanderlost by Jen Malone

For when you want to go somewhere (anywhere) on vacation…but all you can actually do is go to your backyard…

Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
Invictus by Ryan Graudin

Or maybe, just escape by traveling back in time!

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Lovely War by Julie Berry
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

For when you daydream about living in your favorite fantasy world.

Reign the Earth by A.C. Gaughen
Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

For TFW you go to get a midnight snack and swear you hear something behind you…

Asylum by Madeleine Roux
Amity by Micol Ostow
Cursed by Thomas Wheeler

YA Netflix movie binge? Read the Books!

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

… and need to re-read these before the movie comes out!

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

And lastly, for when you’ve already re-read your favorite series 50 times and are looking for the next great thing.

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker