Threes

• Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando – future college roomies correspond through email

• Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman – speech on creativity set to wild graphic design and typography

• The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan – abstract couple in nyc meet, fall in love, fall out of love

• Attempting Normal by Marc Maron – comedian/podcaster bares all in personal essays

• Autobiography of Us by Aria Beth Sloss – childhood friends come of age in the 1950s

• Friday Never Leaving by Vikki Wakefield – runaway girl falls in with a band of homeless teens

• He Said, She Said by Alexander Kwame – opposite attract in an urban Southern high school 

Fours

• Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler – gay kid grows up with very conservative religious parents

• The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson – guerilla artist teen protests injustice in a dystopian society

• Far Far Away by Tom McNeal – danger awaits a guileless teen who can talk to the ghost of a Grimm brother

• On Writing by Stephen King – author ruminates on life and writing

• The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal – political intrigue and icky diseases in 16th century Scandinavia [review here]

• Winger by Andrew Smith – young boy learns how to be a good human at boarding school

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – how to succeed in business with a vagina

• The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen – girl decides between staying and leaving after graduating

• The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp – how to live – and parent – when your baby is dying

 

Fives

• Night Owl by M. Pierce – emotionally intense love/not-so-love/we are all fucked up story

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – nerdy fandom girl has an awkward first year at college

• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin – many kings try to grasp power in Westeros

• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin – more political intrigue, war, and complete mayhem ensues