Kelly is a former librarian and a blogger at STACKED and BOOK RIOT. She loves black licorice and debating genre. Her book, It Happens: A Guide to Contemporary Realistic Fiction for the YA Reader, will be released in August 2014. Follow her on Twitter @catagator.
Liz Burns: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle CooperComing in 2013:Game by Barry LygaKiki Strike: The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten MillerQuintana of Charyn by Melina MarchettaPaper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
Kelly Jensen: Crazy by Amy Reed Me & Earl & The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Thumped by Megan McCafferty Something Like Normal by Trish DollerStatistical Probability of Love and First Sight by Jennifer E Smith The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers Butter by Erin Jade LangeThe List by Siobhan Vivian The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard Catch & Release by Blythe Woolston Coming in 2013: 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma Absent by Katie Williams The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Kristi Chadwick: Cold Days by Jim Butcher Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuireDiscount Armaggeddon by Seanan McGuire Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy) by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) Angel’s Ink: The Asylum Tales by Jocelynn DrakeIronskin by Tina Connolly Wild by Cheryl Strayed Coming in 2013: Chimes at Midnight & Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire Greenlight for Murder by Heywood Gould
Anna Mickelsen: The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks (#2 in the Lightbringer Trilogy)Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas (Fitzhugh Trilogy #2) The Rook by Daniel O’Malley Coming in 2013: A Memory of Light by Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan Ever After by Kim Harrison Anything by Sherry Thomas A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan
Sarah Statz Cords Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf Always Put In a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa’s Best-Known Homemaker by Evelyn Birkby George Harrison: Living in the Material World by George Harrison Read This! Handpicked Favorites from America’s Indie Bookstores Wild by Cheryl Strayed Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Coming in 2013: American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright My Brother’s Book by Maurice Sendak Detroit by Charlie LeDuff Gun Guys by Dan Baum Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others by Stacy Horn
Becky Spratford The Walking Dead (graphic novel) by Robert Kirkman The Void by Brett Talley The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle. Flesh and Bone (Rot and Ruin trilogy) by Jonathan Maberry A Bad Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel (Book Two in The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Seed by Ania Ahlborn Coming in 2013: Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry NO24A2 by Joe Hill Locke and Key (graphic novel) by Joe Hill Dr. Sleep by Stephen King (sequel to The Shining)
Liz Burns blogs about young adult books, TV, and other things that capture her fancy at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy at School Library Journal. By day, she is a Youth Services Librarian for an east coast regional library for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Liz co-authored, with Sophie Brookover, Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect with Your Whole Community (Information Today, Inc., 2008).Three things to know about her: her favorite television show is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she used to be a lawyer (but don’t hold that against her) and she loves to read. Liz lives at the Jersey Shore…. and it’s nothing like the TV show. Really. You can follow her on Twitter @LizB.
Kelly Jensen is a librarian, a reader, a writer, a copy editor, and compulsive consumer of all things books and blogs. She lives in a small town in Wisconsin but grew up near Chicago, spending time in rural Iowa and Austin, Texas in between. She enjoys really bad reality television, cooking, traveling, ice cream, and making art. Two crucial facts: she does not eat red meat and has not read Jane Austen. She’s probably the cruelest person you will ever know. Kelly blogs at Stacked and you can find her on Twitter @catagator.