100 most popular YA books

Well seeing as how I almost have everything in order here what with all the changing I've done. I decided to give it a little rest for right now. I was going through my reader, and came upon this "100 most popular Ya books" and I was like I'm going to check this out. So here it is everything I've read will be in bold. If I read the whole series that will be bold, and if just one book just that will be bold. :)

 I haven't read a whole lot, but I actually have a lot of them on my shelves. (I will italicize those and highlight in green)

1. Alex Finn – Beastly

2. Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones

3. Ally Carter – Callagher Girls (1, 2, 3, 4)
4. Ally Condie – Matched

5. Alyson Noel – The Immortals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

6. Anastasia Hopcus – Shadow Hills
7. Angie Sage – Septimus Heap (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
8. Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1, 2, 3, 4)
9. Anna Godbersen – Luxe (1, 2, 3, 4)
10. Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
11. Aprilynne Pike – Wings (1, 2, 3)
12. Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush, Hush (1, 2)
13. Brandon Mull – Fablehaven (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
14. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
15. Cassandra Clare – The Mortal Instruments (1, 2, 3, 4)
16. Carrie Jones – Need (1, 2, 3)
17. Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth (1, 2, 3, 4)
18. Christopher Paolini – Inheritance (1, 2, 3, 4)
19. Cinda Williams Chima – The Heir Chronicles (1, 2, 3)
20. Colleen Houck – Tigers Saga (1, 2)
21. Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (1, 2, 3)
22. Ellen Hopkins – Impulse
23. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
24. Faraaz Kazi – Truly, Madly, Deeply
25. Frank Beddor – The Looking Glass Wars (1, 2, 3)
26. Gabrielle Zevin – Elsewhere
27. Gail Carson Levine – Fairest 
28. Holly Black – Tithe (1, 2, 3)
29. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 
30. James Dashner – The Maze Runner (1, 2)
31. James Patterson – Maximum Ride (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
32. Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
33. Jeanne DuPrau – Books of Ember (1, 2, 3, 4)
34. Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
35. John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
36. John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
37. John Green – Looking for Alaska
38. John Green – Paper Towns
39. Jonathan Stroud – Bartimaeus (1, 2, 3, 4)
40. Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – Caster Chronicles (1, 2)
41. Kelley Armstrong – Darkest Powers (1, 2, 3)
42. Kristin Cashore – The Seven Kingdoms (1, 2)
43. Lauren Kate – Fallen (1, 2, 3)
44. Lemony Snicket – Series of Unfortunate Events (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
45. Libba Bray – Gemma Doyle (1, 2, 3)
46. Lisa McMann – Dream Catcher (1, 2, 3)
47. Louise Rennison – Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
48. M.T. Anderson – Feed
49. Maggie Stiefvater – The Wolves of Mercy Falls (1, 2, 3) 
50. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Shadow Children (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
51. Maria V. Snyder – Study (1, 2, 3)
52. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
53. Markus Zusak – I am the Messenger
54. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
55. Mary Ting – Crossroads
56. Maureen Johnson – Little Blue Envelope (1, 2)
57. Meg Cabot – All-American Girl (1, 2)
58. Meg Cabot – The Mediator (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
59. Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
60. Meg Rosoff – How I live now
61. Megan McCafferty – Jessica Darling (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
62. Megan Whalen Turner – The Queen’s Thief (1, 2, 3, 4)
63. Melina Marchetta – On the Jellicoe Road
64. Melissa de la Cruz – Blue Bloods (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
65. Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
66. Michael Grant – Gone (1, 2, 3, 4)
67. Nancy Farmer – The House of the Scorpion
68. Neal Shusterman – Unwind
69. Neil Gaiman – Coraline
70. Neil Gaiman – Stardust
71. Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
72. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – House of Night (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
73. Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials (1, 2, 3)
74. Rachel Caine – The Morganville Vampires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
75. Rachel Cohn & David Levithan – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
76. Richelle Mead – Vampire Academy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
77. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
78. Rom LcO’Feer – Somewhere carnal over 40 winks
79. S.L. Naeole – Grace (1, 2, 3, 4)
80. Sabrina Bryan & Julia DeVillers – Princess of Gossip
81. Sarah Dessen – Along for the Ride
82. Sarah Dessen – Lock and Key
83. Sarah Dessen – The Truth about Forever
84. Sara Shepard – Pretty Little Liars (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
85. Scott Westerfeld – Leviathan (1, 2)
86. Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (1, 2, 3, 4)
87. Shannon Hale – Books of a Thousand Days
88. Shannon Hale – Princess Academy
89. Shannon Hale – The Books of Bayern (1, 2, 3, 4)
90. Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
91. Simone Elkeles – Perfect Chemistry (1, 2, 3)
92. Stephanie Meyer – The Host
93. Stephanie Meyer – Twilight Saga (1, 2, 3, 4)
94. Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
95. Susan Beth Pfeffer – Last Survivors (1, 2, 3)
96. Suzanne Collins – Hunger Games (1, 2, 3)
97. Suzanne Collins – Underland Chronicles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
98. Terry Pratchett – Tiffany Aching (1, 2, 3, 4)
99. Tonya Hurley – Ghost Girl (1, 2, 3)
100. Wendelin Van Draanen – Flipped

Read: 51/321
Have not read: 56/321
Yeah, that's good for me I guess.

 

Some Signs of Book Addiction

Some signs of Book Addiction

I definitely have a problem.... do you? If you find yourself nodding your head to any of these statements, you might suffer from Book Addiction. Don't worry you are not alone.

I got the first ten of these from Kristi @ The Story Siren, and thought they were cute.(Also the adorable picture on the  right side) So I went searching for more, and here is what I came up with.

You know you a book addict when..

1. You buy your purses based on how many books you can fit inside. 
2. The Fed Ex and UPS carriers, know you by name. 
3. Your family refuses to buy you books because they don't want to support your habit. 
4. You own multiple versions of the same book. 
5. You dream about books. (Getting them... meeting the authors that write them.) 
6. You always have at least one book on you at all times. Even if it's just a quick trip to the dollar store. 
7. You usually help shoppers at the bookstore, because you are more knowledgeable than the staff. 
8. You've been known to skip family functions or outings with friends because you can't stop reading.
9. There are books in every room of your house. 
10. If you are within five miles of a bookstore, you find yourself drawn to it like a homing device from the mothership. 
11. You trip over books walking into the living room because books are piled into every available corner!
12. You have to clear space off of the couch just to have a place to sit down and read.
13. You carry a book with you where ever you go and sometimes forget it can look strange.
14. You own over 1500 books, have 800 in your TBR pile and STILL keep checking out books from the library!
15. You resort to "storing" books everywhere: kitchen cabinets, in the freezer (it doesn't work anyway,) under the bed, etc.
16. You hide your new purchases from your spouse/family, so you don't have to hear the words, "You bought another book?!"
17. You buy so many books that you mistakenly buy the same book twice and have no idea until you put it in your bookshelf, right beside its duplicate lol.
18. Your husband encourages you to do more giveaways on your blog after he trips over one of the many random piles of books around the house.
19. You rather buy books instead of underwear, and the present underwear you are wearing has all holes in them.
20. The following quote isn't so much a joke as a way of life: "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus
21. You sign up for double day books in your name and it feels so good when your books come in you sign up in your husbands name and then yet again in your mothers name.
22. You have book lines on your face morning after morning instead of sheet marks!
23. You get a job at Barnes and Noble just so you can get the employee discount.
24. The number of books you own is greater than the mileage on your car.
25. You name your children and or pets, after characters in your favorite books (I didn't do this, but I know people who have)
26. The first place you go to in the store is the book section just to see if something new has come out in the 48 hours since you were last there.
27. You delay going to the bathroom to finish "one more page!"
28. You forget about the bathroom completely. :P
29. Part of your monthly budget is allocated for books.
30. You successfully get your daily reading in while waiting for the Internet pages to download.
31. You can't weed out any books from your huge collection because you "just might" want to read them one day.
32. You keep a spreadsheet listing the books you've read, the books you want to read, the stats on books read each month and each year.
33. Anytime someone asks you what you want for your birthday, christmas, groundhog day, etc they MUST specify "besides a book"
34. You own the hardcover, you've read it, but you buy the paperback anyway because, "the cover is really pretty!"
35. You already have the book, but it has different covers so you buy the book if  you see a cover you don't have.
36. You read when stopped at a red light. (Sometimes not a smart idea)
37. You call work and tell them your running late, but will be there soon...When in reality your almost done with your book and can't leave the house until you finish it
38. You walk out of a bookshop with bagfuls of books, but still feel guilty about all the poor books you left behind on the shelves (lonely, ignored and only wanting a loving home).
39. Out of nowhere, you become a blogger of book reviews and become completely addicted to it. (don't you think it's a healthy addiction? reading, writing... that's a good thing... right?)
40. People who "dog ear" pages instead of using bookmarks are your mortal enemy.

Can I make it to 100?

The italicized ones are true to me. :)

Have you seen any you'd like to add, or perhaps have some of your own? Let me hear them.

Ten good things on a monday (Movie edition)

This is a Newish Meme hosted by Nina over at Brush Up On Your Reading.
I thought it looked like fun to do, and I love movies. Although, it says you can make your own list I believe. I'm going to go with the list she made. It's ten good things on a Monday: 2011 movies I want to see.
It's funny because a few weeks ago my sister in law and I were going through some of the sequels coming out this year for some of the our favorite firsts like cars, PotC, Xmen, Transformers, and so forth. So with that being said.

My list:

1. Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Seriously, need I say more about this one. I'm kind of sad that some of the other characters won't be in it, but Sparrow will so it's all good :( I love Captian Sparrow ok well really I like Johnny Depp. Plus it has zombies, and mermaids. May 20,2011
2. Season of the witch: I saw the previews for this on an awards show I was watching then I saw the other regular previews. It looks really good, and it has the paranormal like aspect to it. If that makes any sense. January 7,2011 (So it's already out)
3. I am Number four: I actually didn't know this was a book until recently,but it looks really good. It actually sounds like a tv show that used to come on called Rosewell, but anyways should be cool. Feb 18,2011
4. Jane Eyre: I saw this on the list, and although I haven't read the book old or new. I really want to, and with a movie coming it out I always like to see the movie and then read the book if possible to see people's take on them. March 11,2011
5. Little Red Riding Hood: It's produced by Catherine Hardicke (Twilight producer) so hopefully it would be good. Plus another telling of LRRH could be interesting. March 11,2011
6. Beastly: It just looks interesting. :) March 18,2011
7. Fast and the Furious 5: Ok ok I know there's alot of these right, but it actually has the 2 original people in it Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker. Not to mention I loved all the others. April 29,2011
8. Transformers 3: I've loved both the transformers before so it's only naturally that I want to see the third. Plus, no Megan Fox in this one. (Sorry I'm not a fan of hers) July 1,2011
9. The Smurfs: OMG! I saw this as a preview during another movie I watched, and was excited. I remember watching the smurfs when I was little, and loved Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and I can't think of the others. This should be a really cute movie. July 29,2011
10. Gnomeo and Juliet: Ok I know this is a cartoon, but it looks adorable I saw the previews at another movie I was watching. A movie about gnomes how cute. February 11,2011

This was really, really hard to pick ten that I wanted to see because well you still have HP 7: the second part which duh I have to see. Then you have the Breaking Dawn beginning: a must. Also it looked like a few others that are sequels, and tri-quels (Is that even a word. lol) are coming out too. I was overwhelmed with the awesomeness of movie coming out this year. My poor wallet between the new books and new movies. I'm already completely broke. :)

To see where I came up with my list, and see what else is coming out in 2011 go here