Follow Friday #12 / Book Blogger Hop #11

 
Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Parajunkee's View. Each week, one blogger is featured, and this week it's Marla from Starting the Next Chapter.



It also asks a different question each week. This week's question is: "Keeping with the dystopian and apocalypse theme that seems to be running rampant on parajunkee.com, I have one very hard question for you: If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?"

Oh, God, that's a really hard question! There's too many books to choose from! I'm just going to look through my Goodreads read shelf and choose ten that I thought are really amazing...So, here they are, in no particular order:

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Looking for Alaska by John Green
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (or any Sarah Dessen novel, really)
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (again, any Nicholas Sparks novel would be okay)

There are so many other books I love, but these are the ten I'd probably choose...

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy for Books and is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word.

This week's question is: "Summer is coming quickly - what 2011 summer release are you are most looking forward to?"

Another hard question! There are so many summer releases I'm looking forward to! But if I had to choose one, it would probably be this one:

Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
(Amazon / Goodreads)

Release date: June 14th 2011

Goodreads description:

Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can’t be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns home two years later, a precarious and deadly balance waits. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood.

Honestly, the cover would have been enough to make me add this one to my wishlist - I simply cannot stop looking at it; it's breathtakingly beautiful and tells a story on its own. Add to that the description and...wow! It sounds like the perfect blend of suspense and emotion - right up my alley!

That's it for my answers! What about you? Leave your answers or links in the comments!