St Hilda’s favourite books

St Hilda’s favourite books

Like me, you have probably been a bit surprised – to an eyebrow raising extent - by the books that didn’t make it to the St Hilda’s 25 most popular book list.

So before you go volcanically cray cray, check out what came 26th-50th on the list of books borrowed, read, and loved by St Hilda’s students in the last two years. And that may calm the beast within…

St Hilda’s favourite books

St Hilda’s favourite books

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Go ask Alice by AnonymousOne by Sarah CrossanThrone of glass series by Sarah J. MaasDelirium by Lauren OliverGossip girl by Cecily von ZiegesarThe killer’s cousin by Nancy Werlin

A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. MaasWonder by R.J. PalacioBetween shades of gray by Ruta SepetysElsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Bang, bang, you’re dead! by Narinder DhamiWe were liars by E. LockhartShatter me by Tahereh Mafi

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Me before you by Jojo MoyesAngus, thongs and full-frontal snogging by Louise RennisonThe lovely bones by Alice SeboldPoison study by Maria V. SnyderThe book thief by Markus Zusak

Anna dressed in blood by Kendare BlakeAnd then there were none by Agatha ChristieLooking for Alaska by John GreenAnna and the French kiss by Stephanie PerkinsAn ember in the ashes by Sabaa Tahir Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

St Hilda’s favourite books Go ask Alice

By Anonymous F ANO

Alice is 15, white, middle-class. She diets, dates and gets decent grades. She thinks someday she'd like to get married and raise a family. Then she is invited to a party where the drinks are spiked with LSD and Alice is never the same again. Within months, she is hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that takes her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. As Alice loses her innocence and youth, will she have the strength to say “no” before the drugs take her life?

St Hilda’s favourite books One

By Sarah Crossan F CRO

Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They are conjoined twins - united in blood and bone.

What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. And what about love?

But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi and Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for...

St Hilda’s favourite books Throne of glass

By Sarah J. Maas F MAA

In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an 18-year-old Celaena is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught.Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for representing the prince in a to-the-death tournament - fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?

First book in theThrone of glass series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Delirium

By Lauren Oliver F OLI

In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches 18 to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins, Lena is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake. But with 95 days left until her treatment, Lena meets Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?

First book in theDelirium series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Gossip girl

By Cecily von Ziegesar F VON

‘Gossip Girl’ is a popular, anonymous blog that spreads rumours and gossip about the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side.

When Serena van der Woodsen returns to the fold from a boarding school, she is ruthlessly determined to win back her title as the Upper East Side's ‘It girl’.

First book in theGossip girl series.

St Hilda’s favourite books The killer’s cousin

By Nancy Werlin F WER

After being accused and acquitted in the death of his girlfriend, 17-year-old David is sent to live with his aunt, uncle, and young cousin to avoid the media frenzy. But all is not well at his relatives’ house. His aunt and uncle are not speaking, and 12-year-old Lily seems intent on making David's life a torment. And then there is the issue of his older cousin Kathy's mysterious death some years back. As things grow more and more tense, David starts to wonder - is there something else that his family is trying to hide from?

St Hilda’s favourite books A court of thorns and roses

By Sarah J. Maas F MAA

When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As Feyre's feelings for Tamlin turn from hostility to passion, she learns that the faerie lands are becoming very dangerous, and Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.

First book in theA court of thorns and roses series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Wonder

By R.J. Palacio F PAL

Auggie wants to be an ordinary 10-year-old. He feels ordinary on the inside. But ordinary kids do not make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

First book in theWonder series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Between shades of gray

By Ruta Sepetys F SEP

15-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life - until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart.

Separated from her father, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are sent to a Siberian work camp. Lina finds solace in her art buts risks everything by imbedding clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping they will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?

St Hilda’s favourite books Elsewhere

By Gabrielle Zevin F ZEV

Liz is killed in a hit a run accident and her 'life' takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children, and perhaps never fall in love.

But in Elsewhere all things carry on almost as they did on earth except that the inhabitants get younger, dogs and humans can communicate (at last), new relationships are formed and old ones sadly interrupted on earth are renewed.

St Hilda’s favourite books Bang, bang, you’re dead!

By Narinder Dhami F DHA

When a mysterious gunman takes a class hostage, the rest of Mia's school is evacuated. But Mia is determined to stay behind. She knows it's a life or death situation but there's something she fears more than dying. Mia thinks she might know who the gunman is, and, if she's right, then she may be the only one who can save her schoolmates...

St Hilda’s favourite books We were liars

By E. Lockhart F LOC

The wealthy and seemingly perfect Sinclair family spend every summer gathered on their private island.

However, not every summer is the same—when something happens to Cadence during the summer of her fifteenth year, the four "Liars" (Cadence, Johnny, Gat and Mirren) re-emerge two years later to prompt Cadence to remember the incident.

St Hilda’s favourite books Shatter me

By Tahereh Mafi F MAF

One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon.Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she's reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had.

First book in theShatter me series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Me before you

By Jojo Moyes F MOY

Louisa is an ordinary woman living an exceedingly ordinary life. She takes a badly needed job working for Will, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has led and adventurous life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is moody and bossy, but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

First book in theMe before you series.

St Hilda’s favourite books

Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

By Louise Rennison F REN

Georgia Nicholson is a 14-year-old English schoolgirl with her work cut out for her. She wants to reduce the size of her nose, get rid of her spots, cope with stupid underwear, placate annoying teachers and deal with unsympathetic friends. She also has Angus – her mixed-breed cat - who is the size of a small Labrador and terrorizes the neighbourhood.

But most importantly though, she has to win the love of handsome hunk Robbie...

First book in the Georgia Nicholson

series.

St Hilda’s favourite books The lovely bones

By Alice Sebold F SEB

Susie Salmon was fourteen when she was murdered on December 6, 1973. Now in heaven, Susie can have whatever she wishes for except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on earth. In the wake of her murder, Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize, even in death, life is not quite out of reach . . .

St Hilda’s favourite books Poison study

By Maria V. Snyder F SNY

On the eve of her execution for murder, Yelena is offered a reprieve – as long as she becomes the food taster for the leader of Ixia, Commander Ambrose.However General Brazell, father of the man she killed, has vowed bloody revenge. She is also beginning to have feelings for her captor, Valek, and someone is plotting the downfall of the current regime. In a desperate race against time, Yelena must learn to control the growing magical talent within her and master the demons of her past.

First book in theStudy and Soulfinders

series.

St Hilda’s favourite books The book thief

By Markus Zusak F ZUS

In Nazi Germany, 1939, Liesel's life changes when she picks up and keeps The Gravedigger's Handbook. It is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

St Hilda’s favourite books Anna dressed in blood

By Kendare Blake F BLA

Cas Lowood is no ordinary guy - he hunts dead people.

People like Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. A beautiful, murderous ghost entangled in curses and rage. Cas knows he must destroy her, but as her tragic past is revealed, he starts to understand why Anna has killed everyone who has ever dared to enter her spooky home.

Everyone, that is, except Cas...

First book in theAnna dressed in

blood series.

St Hilda’s favourite books And then there were none

By Agatha Christie F CHR

Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in south-west England.

Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly, they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

St Hilda’s favourite books Looking for Alaska

By John Green F GRE

First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps”.

Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

St Hilda’s favourite books Anna and the French kiss

By Stephanie Perkins F PER

Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her co-worker at the movie theatre. So she's less than thrilled when her father decides to send her to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna meets some cool new people, including the handsome Etieene St. Clair, who quickly becomes her best friend. Unfortunately, he's taken - and Anna might be, too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?

St Hilda’s favourite books An ember in the ashes

By Sabaa Tahir F TAH

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. When Laia's grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has left to turn to are the rebels.

But in exchange for their help in saving her brother, they demand that Laia spy on the ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the Empire's greatest military academy. Should she fail it is more than her brother's freedom at risk, as Laia's very life is at stake.

First book in theEmber in the ashes

series.

St Hilda’s favourite books Wolf Hollow

By Lauren Wolk F WOL

Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalates. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of Betty's attacks. While others see Toby's strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. And as tensions mount in their small community, Annabelle must find the courage to stand as a lone voice for justice.