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message 1: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Hope you don't mind, I fixed the capitalization and spelling so it would match the lists for all the other years on Goodreads.


message 2: by Rainbowheart (last edited Feb 04, 2015 07:53AM) (new)

Rainbowheart Removed....

Drawn (fantasy)
Bone Gap (fantasy)
Under My Skin (fantasy)
Proof of Forever (fantasy)
Drive Me Crazy (middle grade)
The Truth About My Success (2013)
Enter the Uncreated Night (adult fantasy)
The Love Story That Shouldn't Have Been (2014)
A Brief Stay at Earth Camp Human (middle grade fantasy)


message 3: by Amy (new)

Amy Rainbowheart wrote: "Removed....

Drawn (fantasy)
Bone Gap (fantasy)
Under My Skin (fantasy)
Proof of Forever (fantasy)
Drive Me Crazy (middle grade)
The Truth About My Success (2013)
Enter the Uncreated Night (adult f..."


Bone Gap is contemporary. It has 'magical' elements, but is definitely contemporary.


message 4: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart I haven't read Bone Gap, but I thought only strictly realistic fiction is appropriate for contemporary lists. Does it have actual magic? I saw it marked as magical realism so I was assuming it did, but maybe not.

I'm not the list creator, so if she or anyone else wants to weigh in about borderline books with magical realism, feel free!


message 5: by Amy (new)

Amy I haven't read it myself, but apparently it's kind of dreamy, mysterious, contemp. I'd definitely catagorize it as Contemporary though.


message 7: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for the heads up! I removed those along with a bunch of other non-2015, non-YA, non-contemporary titles.


message 8: by Nahir (new)

Nahir Just Listen by Dessen is from 2006


message 9: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for helping keep the list in good shape. I removed that one along with a lot of other non-2015, non contemporaries.


message 10: by Tammy (new)

Tammy Cordeiro (devadasi7) I just went in and removed some non-2015 books: The Summer I Turned Pretty-all 3 books in the trilogy, Fangirl, Eleanor and Park, Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and 3 Nicholas Sparks novels. Technically, Isla and the Happily Ever After is 2014, but since the paperback is 2015, I left that one. Once it's cleaned up, this list is SOLID! I plan to share it with the other high school librarians in my district!


message 11: by Lyndsay_708 (last edited Oct 19, 2015 05:13AM) (new)

Lyndsay_708 Books that were published before or after 2015

- The Summer I turned pretty trilogy
- Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
- Fat (labels #1)
- Farewell to dreams: A Novel of Fatal Insomnia
- Friends Forever
- Cinder & Ella
- Working girl
- Cinderella Wore Tennis Shoes
- Curve my attitude
- The summers
- Guyliner
- Cinderella screwed me over
- Saving Ceecee Honeycutt
- Poor little bitch girl
- Best friend forever
- Sorority sisters
- Accidental Leigh
- Joyful Leigh
- Serious Leigh
- Introductions
- The Accidental dragon


message 12: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for the heads up! I removed all of those.


message 13: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Did some major cleanup on this list and removed a bunch of non-2015, non-contemporary releases.


message 14: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie A. Found a couple more pre-2015 releases on here:

Stealing Heaven - Elizabeth Scott
What She Left Behind - Tracy Bilen


message 15: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for the heads up! I removed those two.


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