It is no secret that I love myself a good book. Give me a book about ballerinas and I will sit there all day reading, give me a book that everyone loved and I will sit there all day reading, give me a book that is necessary for school and I will sit there all day reading. The point is, give me a book and I will sit there all day reading. I don’t know if I could count all the books that I have ever read in my life, but I do know which books I would reread anytime.
1. "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
This could possibly make me really cliché, but that is okay because this book is amazing. It was a gift for my sixteenth birthday, and I have reread it more than thirty times since then. Maybe it is the duality of the two voices or the golden lines that are scattered throughout. (Or maybe it is solely the musical that Tiny writes about his life). No matter what it is, there is no way that someone wouldn’t want to read about two boys who have the same name. Or about how their lives become intertwined in a way that you wouldn’t have thought. Or about a giant boy named Tiny who LOVES to sing and may love one (or both) of the Will Grayson’s.
2. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Hands down, this book is my absolute favorite. I had to read this book for my English class junior year and it was the best moment of chance. The dark complexities of a female mind trying to figure out her place in the world could not have been better written by anyone other than Plath. Following the life of Esther Greenword is an adventure to be taken carefully, there are moments of insanity and moments of clarity, but they are all moments to be loved.
3. "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
There is an unspoken rule among those who have already read this book to not talk about what happens in this book. If that isn’t reason enough to read this and figure out why then, I don’t know what is.
4. "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell
I may just have a thing for good metaphors and for symbolism and this book may be filled with them, but no matter, I still love the story that is built in the world of Cath and Wren (twins who were supposed to be one child: Catherine, Cath and Wren) and the fictional world of Snow and Baz. Whether you want to cry about the rekindled family relationship or yell at Levi for not reading and reading into thing wrong or have an emergency Kanye dance party, this is the book for you.
5. "Pointe" by Brandy Colbert
I know I already talked about this book in my previous article that was dedicated to ballerina books, but this one had to be on this list. The complexity of the story lines had me on my toes and I felt the emotions of losing more than just a friend but of losing yourself. Going into the book, you think you know what will happen, but you are in a ride, one that will twist and turn, one that will make you laugh and cry (mostly cry), one that you will remember.
