Must Read lists were a challenge started by Carrie at There is a Book for That. She shares on her 2019 intro post:
“For anyone out there with a To Be Read list that seems like it will never end, this challenge is for you! This is all about making your own personal list of books that you want to commit to reading in 2019.
10? 20? 30? more? It’s up to you
Books can be published in any year, be from any genre, and from any category: adult, YA, MG, Graphics, NF, etc. . All that matters is that they are books you want to be sure not to forget as that TBR list continues to grow! These aren’t the only titles you will read over the year, but a list to help guide your reading. A list to lure you back to a reading path you have set for yourself. Many, many new books will tempt you! Go ahead and read them but having a list like this ensures you will not forget some titles you were determined to read. That’s the intention and spirit of this challenge.”
Here at Unleashing Readers, we focus on novels and call our Must Read lists our HOPE TO lists 🙂
Without further adieu, here are our lists!
Ricki
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka Completed February 3, 2019
Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi Completed January 27, 2019
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Completed February 19, 2019
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Read: 3 of 16
Kellee
I may have gone a bit crazy this year, and I know that I probably won’t get to all of these amazing titles, but I couldn’t cut any once I made this list. (Anyone who has been an UR reader for a while knows that I am not good at narrowing down lists.) This led to my list having FIFTY titles. I cultivated titles from my Kindle, my students, and my Goodreads TBR to complete the list. We’ll see what I can do this year!
Update: Since I made this list, I had the honor of accepting a spot on an ALA Book Award Jury, so plans have changed a bit 🙂
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
Chomp (and other Hiaasen books) by Carl Hiaasen
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
Dash and Lilly’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs Completed 1/13/19
Downsiders by Neal ShustermanRead Shadow Club, The Schwa Was Here, and Dark Side of Nowhere instead
Completed 4/21/19, 4/27/19, 5/14/19
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Fallout by Todd Strasser
First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Immoral Code by Lillian Clark
Inkling by Kenneth Oppel Completed 1/19/19
I Survived books by Lauren Tarshis
Killing November by Adriana Mather
Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (and its sequels) by Chris ColferThe Wishing Spell Completed 1/12/19
The Enchantress Returns Completed 2/9/19
A Grimm Warning Completed 4/9/19
Beyond the Kingdoms Completed 5/1/19
An Author’s Odyssey Completed 5/28/19
The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu Completed 2/4/19
Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano
Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak by Pablo Cartaya
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Completed 2/10/19
#MurderFunding by Gretchen McNeil Completed 3/28/19
Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage by 48 Authors
Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Completed 2/8/19
Puddin’ by Julie Murphy
Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Red Queen Completed 2/16/19
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Right As Rain by Lindsey Stoddard
Rowling’s Novellas and Short Stories from Pottermore
Rules of the Road (and other Bauer books recommended to me by a student) by Joan Bauer
The Seasons of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
The Selection (and its sequels) by Kiera Cass
The Selkie of San Francisco by Todd Calgi Gallicano
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson Completed 5/23/19
Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Surface Tension by Mike Mullin
Survivor’s Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
Tight by Torrey Maldonado
To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzner
Tradition by Brendan Kiely
Two Can Keep a Secret by Kerry M. McManus Completed 4/2/19
Warcross (and Wildcard) by Marie Lu
Warcross Completed 1/26/19
Wildcard Completed 2/24/19
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera.
Read: 12 of 50
What are your #mustreadin2019 titles?
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I see The 57 Bus on both lists! That book was such a read. I recommend it frequently.I also spot some other books that I have read and loved like The Parker Inheritance, A Land of Permanent Goodbyes and Merci Suarez. And we have some books to read in common! Here’s to a fantastic reading year!
You both have some I have read, some on my own list, and some unfamiliar ones. Shusterman has become a favorite of mine, so I am curious about Downsiders. I hate to admit this but I have not read anything by Laurie Halse Anderson, and I have heard so much about Shout! Might have to find that one!
Now that I am done with mater’s and my reading life is back to normal, I hope to include some IMWAYR posts again!
Happy reading!
These are great lists! Of the titles I’ve read from your lists (7 of Ricki’s list and 11 from Kellee’s list), they were wonderful (and we have some #mustread titles in common, of course). I look forward to seeing everyone’s progress in April!
So happy to have two more lists come in so I can crowdsource two more titles for my own list! I’m picking A Land of Permanent Goodbyes and Tight. So many great books on both lists!