My First Challenge! I’ve decided to join Becky of Becky’s Book Reviews’s “It’s the End of the World” challenge. The point, to read at least four apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic books by the beginning of October. This is not a genre that I particularly like but there are a lot of great teen books out there on the subject and I’m hoping that this will force me to read some great titles I normally would have passed on.
So, here’s what I’m going to read:
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- Life as we Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
For more details on the challege or to sign up, go here.
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I just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy which I know is at least a post-apocalyptic novel. But what about Shade’s Children by Garth Nix? Does that count?
| March 12, 2009 @ 3:46 am
Did you know you don’t need to buy, or even check out Cory Doctorow’s book, Little Brother? You can download it for free from Cory’s website.
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
| March 17, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Ack, I’m not a good person to ask! Sorry! You might want to check with Becky. I found all my books from one article, pretty much — here’s the link. I didn’t even realize Uglies by Westerfeld was considered post-apocalyptic until I read the article.
Based on my response to your questions, I think this challenge will be very, very good for me. :)
| March 13, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
I will definitely have to check that out. Thanks for the heads up!
| March 18, 2009 @ 9:26 pm