This post stressed me out so so much. What class would I teach? What would be the over arching themes? How could I only pick 10 books? Anyways, finally I just decided to go with a YA contemporary theme and put on books I love and would love to discuss with people (my fictional students). Here are the books I picked:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Belzhar, by Meg Wolitzer
Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
Paper Towns, by John Green
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli
This sounds like a fantastic class! Some of my favourite books are on your list. Still have to check out Stephanie Perkins though. My TTT was on Irish YA books, I’d be delighted if you checked it out 🙂
Awesome class! I actually had a high school teacher who wanted to teach Wallflower but it got shot down, so we read it as part of the “literary club” after school.
I’d definitely like to join your YA contemporary class. Looks like it would be fun!
Great list. I should take this class as I’m not much of a contemporary reader. 😉
This is a class I could get behind. I so desperately need to read Paper Towns! Great list 🙂
I haven’t read any of these yet but both Anna and the French Kiss and Eleanor and Park are on my TBR. This would be a fun class!
I need this class – I’m so out of the loop when it comes to this genre lol
My TTT
I don’t read a lot of contemporary; I haven’t read any of these at all! I would like to try one of Rainbow Rowell’s books at some point, though.
This sounds like a fantastic class! Some of my favourite books are on your list. Still have to check out Stephanie Perkins though. My TTT was on Irish YA books, I’d be delighted if you checked it out 🙂
Awesome class! I actually had a high school teacher who wanted to teach Wallflower but it got shot down, so we read it as part of the “literary club” after school.