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Shelf-Confidence BPC | April | Day 8 | Brokenhearted

Shelf-Confidence BPC | January 10: Bookmark

Shelf-Confidence BPC | January 2: First Lines

Lolitawas a strange book to read, but I have to admit the way language is used is so clever. Just read the first paragraph out loud. My English-major-brain went, “Yes! The alliteration!!”

*starred=I actually read the first book

• Becoming/Michelle Obama - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Maya Angelou
• Well Met/Jen DeLuca - The Importance of Being Earnest/Oscar Wilde
• *Six of Crows/Leigh Bardugo - Artemis Fowl series/Eoin Colfer
• Twilight/Stephanie Meyer - Sunshine/Robin Mckinley
• Graceling/Kristen Cashore - Red Queen/Victoria Aveyard
• Fangirl/Rainbow Rowell - Eliza and Her Monsters/Francesca Zappia
• The Hate U Give/Angie Thomas - New Kid/Jerry Craft
• Romeo and Juliet/William Shakespeare - Oedipus Rex/Sophocles
• *The Martian/Andy Weir - World War Z/Max Brooks
• The Guest List/Lucy Foley - The Hound of the Baskervilles/Arthur Conan Doyle
• *Mexican Gothic/Silvia Moreno Garcia - For He Can Creep/Siobhan Carroll
• *Little Women/Louisa May Alcott - The Mother-Daughter Bookclub/Heather Vogel Fredrick
• The Book Thief/Marcus Zusak - The Island on Bird Street/Uri Orlev
• The Unhoneymooners/Christina Lauren - The Blue Castle/L.M. Montgomery
• *Good Omens/Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - The Amulet of Samarkand/Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus #1)
• A Man Called Ove/Fredrick Backman - Pippi Longstocking/Astrid Lindgren
• The Great Gatsby/F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Golem and the Jinni/Helen Wecker
• To Kill a Mockingbird/Harper Lee - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice/Phillip Hoose
• Pride and Prejudice/Jane Austen - The Lottie Project/Jacqueline Wilson
• The Fault in Our Stars/John Green - ‘People Love Dead Jews’, says Dara Horn, but the living ones don’t fare as well/Renee Gert-Zhand
• Red, White and Royal Blue/Casey McQuiston - Every Day/David Leviathan
• The Lunar Chronicles/Marissa Meyer - Bayern series/Shannon Hale
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before/Jenny Han - Sometimes We Tell the Truth/Kim Zarins
  
• Daisy Jones and the Six/Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Comeback/Ella Berman
• *The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern - The Magic Fish/Trung Le Nguyen
• The Illuminae Files/Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff - Ender’s Game/Orson Scott Card
• Circe/Madeline Miller - Spinning Silver/Naomi Novik
• *Milk and Honey/Rupi Kaur - The Princess Saves Herself in This One/Amanda Lovelace