Personal Reading Profile

I am definitely a veracious reader, especially when it comes to Young Adult books. Prior to working at the Dallas Public Library, I used to be a Young Adult assistant at the Carmel Clay Public Library. Until then, I didn’t read much YA, however now that is pretty much exclusively what I read. Last year with grad school, I only read 45 books, but typically I average in between 125-150 books read each year. If I had to pick my favorite genres would probably be science fiction, psychological thrillers, fantasy and LGBTQ. On the flip side, if I had to choose my least favorite genres I would have to pick romance, especially the “feel good” Summer romance books that are popular in YA fiction. I actually owned quite a bit of books, however in my move to Texas I parted ways with close to half of my collection so that the moving load wasn’t so large.

Creating a list of books that are my “Top Picks of 2016” is definitely hard, even with the fewer amount of books that I read. But, here it goes:

•        The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid (Science Fiction and I met the author at ALA this past summer!)
•        Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Science Fiction, #2 in a series)
•         Draw the Line by Laurent Linn (Realistic Fiction with a twist of Graphic Novel throughout)
•         Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (Realistic Fiction/LGBTQ)
•         Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Fantasy)

My TOP 5 ALL TIME favorite books (even harder to come up with than last year’s list!!)

•        The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
•              I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
•        Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
•        Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
•             The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger