Friday 13 July 2018

Wrappers Recommend

Books recommended at the July meeting - and only the recommended ones. Not the ones described as 'rubbish' or 'boring'!

Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman 

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

My Hero Academia series by Kohei Horikoshi

Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird

The Call & The Invasion by Peadar O'Guilin.

Firstlife by Gena Showalter

The Lie Tree by Francis Hardinge 


Monday 9 July 2018

GLBTQ+ Theme Reads

The theme read chosen by the group for the next month (school holiday leisure reading perhaps) is LGBTQ+ books.  It can be difficult to find them by subject so here are some titles recommended by Wrappers who have already read them. You can search the catalogue here to reserve one for yourself.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

We are Okay by Nina La Cour

I am J by Cris Beam

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli   

I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

More Than This by Patrick Ness

 Six of Crows (especially the second one) by Leigh Bardugo

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

It's Our Prom (So Deal With It) by Julie Anne Peters

The Anatomy of Curiosity by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, Brenna Yovanoff

The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George