Wolfy’s top ten reads ever.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young
Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer, they fall in love,
but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the bullying, but rich,
Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the
pursuit of wealth to win over Daisy. His millions made, Gatsby hosts
lavish parties in his mansion, and waits for Daisy to appear. When she
does, events unfold with tragic inevitability.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone Laini Taylor
Karou is not an average girl; she has two lives: one as a 17-year-old art
student in Prague and another being an errand-girl to a monstrous
creature who is the closest thing she has to family. She has never
understood Brimstone's dark work, nor how she came into his keeping.
Plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole, Karou must decide
between the safety of her human life, or the dangers of an alternate warravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.
Delirium Lauren Oliver
Imagine love is a disease. In Lena Haloway’s world, it is. Lena is content
in her safe, government-managed society. She feels (mostly) relaxed
about the future in which her husband and career will be decided, and
looks forward to turning eighteen, when she’ll be cured of ‘deliria’. With
ninety-five days until Lena’s procedure, the inevitable happens when she
falls in love, and her world is turned upside-down, her views changed,
and her life put at risk.
Blood Red Road Moira Young
Saba lives in Silverlake, a wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms
where her family scavenges from landfills left by the long-gone Wrecker
civilization. After four cloaked horsemen kidnap her beloved twin brother
Lugh, she teams up with daredevil Jack and the Free Hawks, a girl gang
of Revolutionaries. Saba learns that she is a fierce fighter and an
unbeatable survivor. Saba and her new friends stage a showdown that
changes the course of their corrupt civilization.
Carrie Stephen King
Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her extremely religious
mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers.
When Carrie is asked to the prom by Tommy Ross, it seems that her life
might finally be turning around for the better, until a final, cruel prank
that will end in blood and destruction. King has a way of getting under
the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs
with menace before finally exploding.