• the loudest sound and nothing clare wigfall (so incredibly well-written.)
• eleanor & park Rainbow Rowell (for the second time. most adorable book I've ever read. please read it.)
• Dash and Lily's Book of Dares Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (pretty damn cute. one of my fav ya books.)
• Charlotte's Web E.B. White (First time reading this and now that I've been forced by A level Literature to analyse everything to death I kept getting the impression that Charlotte and Wilbur's dialogue was nothing more than a figment of Fern's imagination? I mean the events that transpired obviously contradict this but it's really a feeling I can't shake.)
• Water For Elephants Sarah Gruen (This is like the 4th book I added to my to-read shelf on Goodreads many years ago. :') One of those books to be read on a quiet afternoon (or, let's be realistic here, 2am) without distractions. Highly descriptive language means if you take the effort to build the scene in your head as she's described it, you'll be rewarded with an amazing book.)
• Roald Dahl Collection (It's such a shame that I only started reading abundantly when I was 12, else is really love to have grown up with Roald Dahl stories. Perhaps not these stories, though. They were every bit as creepy as their reputation.
• Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher (Cool storytelling format. Constructive message. That's about it though.)
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl David Leveen (Narrator is a Newland Archer-type asswad. Similar subject matter a LfA and Paper Towns but handled less subtly. Normally I at least find the MPDG intriguing but not really in this case. I do, however, love Robby, the Best Friend. Points for Robby.)
• The Death of Bees Lisa O'Donnell (I liked this quite a bit. A lot of time lapsed between my reading this and typing this out so I can't really remember how I felt.)
• The Summer I Learned To Fly Dana Reinhardt (second read. one of my favourite YA books.)
• Geektastic: Stories From The Nerd Herd (Collection of geeky short stories. This book made me wish I were part of the Star Trek/Wars/anything fandom. Favourite story was Quiz Bowl Antichrist by David Levithan.)
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz A.S. King (Oh, Charlie. You broke my heart.
• Divergent Veronica Roth
• Insurgent Veronica Roth
• The Dream of Perpetual Motion Dexter Palmer (Incredibly well-written and engaging. Interesting themes which leave you vaguely unsettled about your own existence -- obviously the sign of a good book. Really enjoyed it. C: )
• Wintertown (Identified with Evan. Made me want to do more art except I ended up not doing anything.
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Pretty good. I like the overall message that solitude is perfectly fine and not like a compromise that people have to live with when they have no other choice. Being alone can be a choice. And it shouldn't be seen as regression?)
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenger (Not exactly life-changing. The book only really picks up after like 400 pages.)
• The Secret Year
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X Stork (kind of loved this book. I felt so at peace at the end.)

Okay I don't think my goal of reading 60 books before uni is going to be realised because I started getting into fanfiction again and I've read a few books' worth of it and published work doesn't interest me rn. Also, I've realised these are all YA (except Water For Elephants). I would like to read more intellectual stuff, stuff that I feel really would change me, but I figure that soon I won't be able to enjoy YA books anymore, while I will have the rest of my life to read proper lit, so I'm going to try to do that first. Also, some of the best books I've read are YA. See: The Book Thief.