Real Life


The Fault in Our Stars
The Diary of a Young Girl
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Thirteen Reasons Why
Paper Towns
Looking for Alaska
Educated
The Hate U Give
Eleanor & Park
Bossypants
Into the Wild
Becoming
Fangirl
The Book Thief
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienWhen Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Kings of Fiction
153 books — 31 voters
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra ClareThe Dream Thieves by Maggie StiefvaterTorn by Billy Wood-SmithAn Interrupted Love Story by Billy Wood-SmithTrust by Billy Wood-Smith
books that i wish were real life
92 books — 9 voters

Dangerous Girls by Abigail HaasNaked by Stacey TrombleyTease by Amanda MacielSweet Madness by Trisha LeaverA Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
YA based on True Crime
30 books — 27 voters


G.K. Chesterton
In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends
G.K. Chesterton

David Foster Wallace
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. ...more
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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