RIYL+Guys+Read

Posted on YALSABK Updated 7/23/12

• 12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn by James Proimos • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green  • Alabama Moon & Dirt Road Home by Watt Key  • Astonishing Adventures of FanBoy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga  • The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman  • Blank Confession by Pete Hautman  • Brain Jack by Brian Falkner (a bit sci-fi, but in the same mode as Little Brother, which I'd also rec)  • Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn  • Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson  • Cardturner by Louis Sachar  • Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon  • Deadline by Chris Crutcher  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour (too bad about the girly cover)  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• The downside of being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• The Fault in our Stars by John Green  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Fighting Ruben Wolf by Markus Zusak  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Food, Girls, & Other Things I Can't Have (as well as other books) by Allen Zadoff  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Gentelmen by Michael Northrop (guys also seem to like Trapped, which I found disappointing)  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Happyface & Winter Town by Stephen Emond  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Head Case by Sarah Aronson  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Heavy Metal and You by Christopher Krovatin  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• JASPER JONES by craig silvey  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• King Dork by Frank Portman  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Looking for Alaska by John Green  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Monster by Walter Dean Myers  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Peak by Roland Smith  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Recovery Road by Blake Nelson  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Right Behind You by Gail Giles  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Rotters by Daniel Kraus (it seems like a zombie book, but it's not)  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto by Eric Luper  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Something Like Normal by Trish Doller  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Split by Swati Avasthi  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Sprout by Dale Peck  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Stick by Andrew Smith  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Stupid Fast and Nothing Special (a duology) by Geoff Herbach  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Swim the Fly and Beat the Band by Don Calame  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• //Two Parties, One Tux and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath// by Steven Goldman  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Tyrell and others by Coe Booth  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• WAITING TO FORGET by Sheila Kelly Welch  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Where She Went (guy's take on a devastating breakup) by Gayle Forman  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (is mostly realistic)  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• With or Without You by Brian Farrey  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">•  Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty (graphic novel) by G. Neri Web Links <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• [|__http://sccl.bibliocommons.com/list/show/71513322_sccl_teens/83356849_teens_read_books_for_guys__] <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• [|__http://www.bridgetobooks.org/2011/09/why-chromosome-meet-our-special-guests.html__] Authors <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Barry Lyga <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Chris Crutcher (pretty much everything he writes)  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Gary Soto  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Gordon Korman  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• John Green  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Jordan Sonnenblick  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">• Matt de la Pena  <span style="display: block; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -18px;">•   Terry Trueman <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">SLEEPING FRESHMEN NEVER LIE <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">HIDDEN TALENTS <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom-color: #366388; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">TRUE TALENTS <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Accidental Zombie
 * <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">David Lubar's books: