YA Lit in a Mini Bag

I love reading!! Some of my favorite YA Lit: Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars and anything by John Green, The Hunger Games Series, The Divergent Series, The Partials Series, the Matched Trilogy, anything by Rick Riordan

I love reading, too. Harry Potter is at the top of the list, and probably will always be - favorite characters (besides the main three, of course): Snape, Hagrid, Aberforth, Luna, Neville, Tonks, the Hogwarts castle and the Burrow (yes, I think in these books, the places can also make great characters), Kreacher, Cruikshanks, and Hedwig.
The Hunger Games is another series I love - funny thing, Mockingjay was my favorite book, and also my favorites of the movies - everyone I know who read the series likes this book the least! Finnick is my all-time favorite character in those books. I also love Pollux, Cinna, Haymitch, and over time, I grew to really like Effie Trinket. I love Rick Riordan's books, but have not finished either the Heroes of Olympus series or the Kane Chronicles. My favorites (so far, of course) are Grover Underwood and Chiron, along with Percy Jackson and his mother Sally. I just started reading The Mortal Instruments series - like them, but no real favorite characters yet (also had to put them down temporarily because I'm reading Dragonfly in Amber, A Girl's Guide to Witchcraft - again, and A Discovery of Witches - again). I have a lot of favorite older young adult series. One is the Anne of Green Gables series. I love Anne, but Matthew and Marilla are my absolute favorites in those books. In the Inheritance Cycle books, my favorites are Orik, Brom and Saphira. Other favorites, and the characters in them that I love: The Princess Bride – Westley (especially as in his Dread Pirate Roberts phase), Inigo and Fezzik, and the grandfather. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Marvin the robot and Deep Thought the computer. City of Ember – Lina, Doon and Granny. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and the other books in the series (Hollow City and Library of Souls) – Olive Elephanta, Emma Bloom, Millard Nullings, and the main protagonist, Jacob Portman. A Girl of the Limberlost as well as most of the other books by Gene Stratton Porter – Elnora Comstock, Billy, The Bird Woman and Wesley Sinton.

Am not sure how best to list this... anything John Green books/nerdfighting (DFTBA!), Infernal Devices series (Will, Jem, Tessa, Magnus Bane), Mortal Instruments (Simon, Magnus Bane, Alec, MALEC!!!!!), Divergent series (Tris, Four), Princess Bride (EVERYTHING), A Separate Peace, The Wind Blows Backward, His Dark Matierals (Lyra, Lee, Iorek, Will, Pantalaimon), anything by Rainbow Rowell, Inkheart, Anne of Green Gables, Every Day by David Levithan.

I also like the Hunger Games and I looooove Harry Potter, but we do swaps for those fandoms all the time, so I'd love things relating to the above fandoms first. I do also like Percy Jackson, City of Ember, The Giver & Gathering Blue (disliked the other 2 in the series). I am the Messenger (Zusak), The Outsiders, and many more.

Things I'd especially like: book recommendations/lists/reviews, ATCs, maps of fictional YA realms, anything that has a fandom mashup-type logo/image like this or this, any recommended YA that has LGBTQ themes.

I don't really need actual books. I own all my favorites already. But if there's something you really want to share, I won't say no (that's how I fell in love with Eleanor & Park). I share books with my friends & BookCross them, so I never mind receiving repeats. I don't own Every Day by David Levithan or its sequel (which I haven't read yet but am dying to), if you happen upon either of those in your travels. If you spot something and want to know if I already have it, please feel free to message me!

Yay, I'm so excited for this mini bag!

My absolute favorite YA is The Diviners series by Libba Bray. You could do this entire swap themed to that book--spooky 1920s NYC goodness--and I would be more than happy. ~ hint hint ~ ;) I love Evie and Jerhico most and also Theta and the Museum of the Creepy Crawlies and just the general setting of the 20's...sigh. So perfect.

I also love A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin was flipping amazing, Yael is a badass and the story itself was so original and compelling.

Lady Midnight is probably my favorite Shadowhunter book, although I do enjoy the Victorian setting of The Infernal Devices (I'm actually rereading this now), but I'm not a huge steampunk fan, so if you go Victorian, I'm not necessarily that into clockwork accessories and such, unless it's subtle. Will Herondale is a favorite character. Sweet, tortured Will. And Emma/Julian.

In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters is great. This is another historical drama with creepy undertones... kinda my thing I guess. :D So if you have any good rec's for a period story or a creepy story or one that's both I'd love to hear them.

I love Harry Potter too, so there's always that. The Marauders forever! I do have some HP things though so I'd love to see anything from the above series first.

Here's my goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28188061-rachel