The Book Shire

2016 ARC Reads

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

It took me a while to write this review because this book… This book changed my life. You know that feeling when you meet a protagonist who just gets it? [...]

Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee

Synopsis: Stevie, Max, and Sanger: keeping Austin weird. Stevie Hart is homeschooled, but don’t hold that against her. Sure, she and her best (okay, [...]

The Museum of Heartbreak by Meg Leder

Synopsis: In this ode to all the things we gain and lose and gain again, seventeen-year-old Penelope Marx curates her own mini-museum to deal with all the [...]

All the Feels by Danika Stone

Synopsis: College freshman Liv is more than just a fangirl: The Starveil movies are her life… So, when her favorite character, Captain Matt Spartan, is [...]

The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone

Synopsis: First loves. Last Wishes. Letting go. Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine lives a charmed life, and is primed to spend the perfect [...]

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour

Synopsis: Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really? Mark and Kate have sat [...]

With Malice by Eileen Cook

Synopsis: A read about a teenage girl who wakes up in a hospital bed and cannot remember the last six weeks of her life, including the accident that [...]

Wild Swans by Jessica Spotswood

Synopsis: The summer before Ivy’s senior year is going to be golden; all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will [...]

Two Summers by Aimee Friedman

Have you ever wondered how your life might have been different if only you’d fill-in-the-blank? I know I have, and that’s exactly what Aimee Friedman [...]