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TGIF is a meme hosted by my girl Ginger over at GReads! where she asks a bookish question and invites all of us to participate. They are consistently insightful, creative, and generally rad questions. So it's definitely worth checking out if you don't already participate!

The question the lovely Ginger poses this week is: 

Recommend it: Which book from the last 10 years you've read would you recommend to a friend?

JUST ONE?! From the last TEN YEARS?


Whoa. My brain exploded.


I'll be choosing from my last ten books. Roll with me.

To the friend who thinks all of YA is for girls: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. There is some seriously solid relationship advice in this read. Add that to the humor, frustration, completely authentic characters and solid plot and this is a YA read that will surely convince the YA skeptic that teen lit is the shiz, no matter your age, gender, or sexual orientation. Great stories about genuine characters is where it’s at, yo. My review is coming next week, so keep your eyes peeled for my full thoughts on the goodness.

To the friend who thinks love triangles are lame: Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley. Again, we have humor, relationship insight, deep characters, and a crazy cool story with alternating POVs and self discovery. You guys, I LOVE books where self discovery is the focus. So much. This book has a solid base of great plot and awesome characters. The icing on the cake is the slow burn romance between JUST TWO PEEPS. And this is some tasty icing, y’all. I’m talking homemade buttercream level of tasty icing. This book will have you cheering and swooning to the very end.

To the friend who is skeptical of Middle Grade fantasy: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Wipe the movie from your mind. Start fresh and trust me that this book is what MG readers dreams are MADE of. The MG main character who thinks and acts like a MG student. Greek mythology. Epic adventures and great best friends. Just the slightest, teensiest, whisper of a romance (but girls are still kinda weird and off-putting so you know...). Percy is the raddest of the rad because he is legit scared of what’s happening like 99% of the time but he’s never whiny, constantly trying to be brave to prove himself and protect his friends, and doing it all in the name of saving others. LOVE.

So now I ask you - what books would YOU recommend to ME? By this point, dear readers, you know my style. You know what I love and what I’m seriously lacking in. You know enough about me that I am sincerely interested in what books you think I’d fall in love with. Let me have it!

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