22 Books in 5 Weeks

As I've talked about before, I'm an MLIS student. My third semester is coming to an end in three weeks, and my fourth semester will begin shortly after. One class I'm taking in the fall semester is Library Services and Materials for Young Adults. For the class, I have to read/listen to 22 YA books that I pick based on certain lists (such as lists from YALSA). What this means is: I have five weeks to read/listen to 22 books.

5 weeks. August 27 to September 21.

Okay, 5 weeks is a slight exaggeration, since I received the reading assignment on Saturday and have decided on all but two of the books I'll be reading/listening to. I've already put everything on hold at the library that I can, and I downloaded the audiobook I'll be listening to from the library on Saturday. Fortunately, I own a couple of the books on the lists, though I'll have to buy a couple more. I'm actually really excited about this assignment, because I get to read some awesome books for it. Here's what I'll be reading.

Ship Breaker	Bacigalupi, Paolo
Looking for Alaska	Green, John
How I Live Now	Rosoff, Meg
Jelliceo Road	Marchetta, Melinda
Going Bovine	Bray, Libba
An Abundance of Katherines	Green, John

Beauty Queens (audiobook)	Bray, Libba
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes	Crutcher, Chris
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories	Janeckzo, Paul
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition	Blumenthal, Karen
World Without Fish: How Could We Let This Happen?	Kurlansky, Mark
Tempest	Cross, Julie
Enclave	Aguirre, Ann
Daughter of Smoke and Bone	Taylor, Laini
Shattering Glass	Giles, Gail
Anya's Ghost	Brosgal, Vera
Here Lies Bridget	Harbison, Paige

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac	Zevin, Gabrielle
The Drowned Cities	Bacigalupi, Paolo
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	Wright, Bil

One of the nice thing is that some of those books were already on my TBR list. One of the not so nice things? All the books I've bought in recent months are going to sit on my shelves, unread, for a while longer than I originally planned. Oh, well. I'll be diving into this list and I'll be finishing it soon enough.