My Personal Recommendations for Recreational Reading

With summer coming up, I'm gearing up my recreational reading list. I love reading new books, but I also have a few favorites that I read every summer.  I'm a sucker for romantic comedies, and I can hardly ever find any good ones for people my age. Some of the books listed are a little young for me now, but for some reason I just can't resist picking them up again. I love looking at them from an older age and giggling at all the silly things that the male and female leads do. Other books are more recent finds and series that I have yet to finish. So without further ado here they are:

Katie's Old Favorite's

The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

A Wrinkle in Time and accompanying books by Madeleine L'Engle

The Boys Next Door and Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols 

Major Crush by Jennifer Echols

Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

New Finds

Clare de Lune and Nocturne by Christine Johnson

Dairy Queen Trilogy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Pretty Tough Novels by Liz Tiglaar

The Grover Beach Team Series by Anna Katmore

All of these books are new to me, and as far as I know the authors aren't done writing yet. I'm super excited. The Pretty Tough books and the Grover beach Team series are an easy example of my favorite kind of book series. They each revolve around a group of kids who all live in the same area, but each new book tells the story of a different character in the group. The books can almost be read separately, but if read in order follow a timeline in which one book ends almost as the next is starting. Anna Katmore is great about telling stories from both the male and female lead's perspective which I also like (it helps reduce narrator unreliability). Murdock, Tiglaar, and Katmore also center their books around athletics which is fun for me, cause they go into detail about things I know nothing about so I learn something new. 

Books I Plan to At Least Read the First Chapter Of

The Gossip Girl Series (13 books) by Cecily von Ziegesar

The Maze Runner Series by James Dasher

Body and Soul by Bethany Hamilton

If anyone has any more reccomendations, I'd love to hear them!! I'm finally getting into the place where I love reading for fun alongside reading for school and I am ready to devour a bookstore!!