Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Brokeandbookish. This week’s theme is Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught X 101. I decided to go with YA Contemporary Romance 101, because this is one of the genres I read the most. I tried to vary my choices, so you will get contemporary romances in different settings, combined with life stories, friendships, adventures, sad situations…well, basically all that can lead to a little romance in life! I hope you’ll enjoy! As always, you can click on the title of the book for a Goodreads link 🙂
1 • My life next door, Huntley Fitzpatrick
Two neighbors falling in love for the first time, dealing with their families, their own background stories, and handling their own friendships and trust.
2 • Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
A strong, honest, heartbreaking and full of true feelings…this is the real story of first love.
3 • The Geography of You and Me, Jennifer E. Smith
Spinning through continents and through postcards, a unique relationship makes this Jennifer E. Smith book one of the must-reads of YA contemporary romance.
4 • Anna and the French Kiss, Stephanie Perkins
Far away from the clichés, this unperfect relationship gives us everything we can search in contemporary romance. Trouble, many trouble in paradise, playing with feelings, all in a different, romantic place, Paris.
5 • Catching Jordan, Miranda Kenneally
A contemporary romance with a girl loving sports, and a guy just as good as her. An unique story about love, competition, and accepting each other.
6 • To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han
Jenny Han is one of the masters of this genre I picked out today. Obviously, this duology goes perfectly in this topic. Romance at its best, with endearing characters, chemistry, love stories, giving also a great place for family dynamics.
7 • Vendetta, Catherine Doyle
One of a kind romance, this is it. If I put that one into this virtual class, it’s because it’s really different. Mystery, trust, discovering the truth, while falling in love… a romance at its best shape, with all the drama we need.
8 • Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn, David Leviathan
A contemporary romance about how sometimes, circumstances can play the best role in finding out who you are, and who you want to be with.
9 • Peaches, Jodi Lynn Anderson
Contemporary romances, on the side of amazing friendships, because sometimes those two can perfectly work together.
10 •If I Stay, Gayle Forman
On the sad side of this class, If I Stay plays an amazing role, where we can find out about the true power of love.
Are you planning to read any of those books, or did you read any? What did you think about it? Let me know in comments!
Awesome list!
Thank you so much! 😀
Great list!♥
I read half of these, so I’ll add the rest to my list because I need more contemporaries in my life, haha.
Thank you so much Mara! 😀 I can’t wait for you to read those books, I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I did! 🙂
Great list! I loved If I Stay, even the movie was good. We have some books in common today. I picked Eleanor & Park too, it’s such a sweet story. I’ve been thinking about reading Peaches, especially since Amazon has it on sale right now. I think I’ll go ahead and buy it since it made your list. Here’s my TTT. Happy reading!
Thank you Kim! I definitely need to watch the movie soon, if it’s good! Peaches was a great, entertaining read, I hope you’ll buy it! Thank you so much, happy reading to you too! 😀
I haven’t read a single one of these, so now I have a nice list of recommendations lol! 🙂
Aw, well I hope you’ll decide to read them, and tell me what you think! 🙂 Thank you for stopping by, Kelsey!
Great list, I loved it! There are quite a few here on my TBR. I’d totally join your class if it were real! ? xoxo
Aw thank you so much Josie! Happy to hear I’d have at least one student, and the best one, if I ever decide to teach about books, haha! 😀
So many big names here I haven’t read but have seen/heard wonderful things for! Sounds like it’d be a fun semester to take (with all the ships and all the feels, I presume haha).
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
I hope it would be, yes! Many, many ships to wonder about, and too many feelings to drown into, obviously 😀
Thank you for stopping by Joey! 😀
I recently reread the Perkins series–they’re lovely sweet books!
I only read the first one, but yes, it was very sweet to read, maybe I will try the next books 🙂 Thank you for stopping by! 😀
Trying to get caught up on this genre! I’ve only read one on this list so far.
I hope my list will help you catching up, then, and that you’ll enjoy some of those! 😀 Thank you for stopping by!
I don’t read contemporary very often because it’s not really my genre, but I’ve read a few of these and they’re great choices for learning about the genre! I didn’t enjoy If I Stay so much, but it definitely showed how to make a book sad, and explore themes of death 🙂
I’ve read To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and I enjoyed it so much. It was really cute and light, which I think some contemporaries definitely need to be. They offer a much deserved break from the real world – sometimes we all need a little bit of fictional romance 😉 <3
Great list!
~ Denise @ The Bibliolater
Aw, what genre do you read the most, if I can ask? 🙂 Thank you so much Denise, I’m really glad that you think I made wise choices, haha 😀 I feel the same way about To All The Boys I Loved Before, it got some lightness and freshness that a lot of contemporary books need to have. Thank you so much for stopping by! 😀
Ahh Eleanor & Park!! <3 Perfect for this list, it's so amazing! To All the Boys I've Loved Before is great too. Awesome choices! 🙂
This book is just perfect! <3