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24th out of 183 books
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325 voters
The A-List (A-List #1)
by
Zoey Dean
Welcome to The A-List, a wickedly funny and risqué paperback original novel that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Seventeen-year-old Upper East Side blueblood Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy is on her way to Beverly Hills, California, where she'll live with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mothe...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by Little Brown Books for Young Readers
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This is an intriguing novel about a teenage girl named Anna Percy. Anna is a straight A student and almost to good at everything. Her best friend Cynthia or Cyn however is the complete opposite. Cyn is wild, brave, and likes her spotlight but Anna is more of a subtle humble girl. Though Anna doesn't mind being a goody two shoes, she is jealous of Cyn and desperately wants to be like her. This novel is about how Anna travels to L.A. to do an internship and bond with her dad for a while. This does...more
Sep 21, 2012
Madeleine
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Madeleine by:
A Horrible Person
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Urgh. I actually picked this book up a really long time ago from Goodwill. Most of the times I never find anything I like but this once I decided what the heck? So let me start by saying this isn't the type of book that I usually read. I usually read books about characters who I feel I can relate to. It was really hard for me to get through, I started it around November and didn't finish until today. Well, here we go.
How can I sum this book...more
Urgh. I actually picked this book up a really long time ago from Goodwill. Most of the times I never find anything I like but this once I decided what the heck? So let me start by saying this isn't the type of book that I usually read. I usually read books about characters who I feel I can relate to. It was really hard for me to get through, I started it around November and didn't finish until today. Well, here we go.
How can I sum this book...more
Dear Diary,
So I met this boy named Ben on the plane to L.A. He had it all from the looks, brains, ugh! just everything. I couldn’t wait any longer. I took him to the bathroom and we did what we had to do. The sex was great! I was feeling him and I could tell he was feelig me too. We got off the plane in L.A. , exchanged numbers, and he even invited me to the famous Jackson Sharpe’s wedding! So much happened today. I’m ready to start a new life here . It’s L.A. baby no regrets and nothing can st...more
So I met this boy named Ben on the plane to L.A. He had it all from the looks, brains, ugh! just everything. I couldn’t wait any longer. I took him to the bathroom and we did what we had to do. The sex was great! I was feeling him and I could tell he was feelig me too. We got off the plane in L.A. , exchanged numbers, and he even invited me to the famous Jackson Sharpe’s wedding! So much happened today. I’m ready to start a new life here . It’s L.A. baby no regrets and nothing can st...more
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I thought The A-List by Zoey Dean was an amazing book. It has a great message that comes with it, the whole book is about this girl Anna who lives in New York but is moving in with her father that lives in Beverley Hills. Her whole life she's been known as the innocent one and the girl who doesn't have any fun and never lets loose so on this trip she's planned to forget about every problem and start the new life of Ana Percy.On her trip over there on the plane she meets a guy named Ben Birnbaum...more
Jun 08, 2010
Becky
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
10th grade and up
Shelves:
age-high-school
Well, I read the first in the series because these books are often Billed, and I was curious. The A-List is admittedly shallow, with consumerism overload. Versace, Hermes Kelly, and Burberry brand-name-dropping might be a quick way to communicate wealth, but it's not very good writing. Still, I was reminded of my thought after sampling Gossip Girl as well: that fantasy is broadly defined as another world, and for some this may consist of elves and unicorns, and for others, the lives of the super...more
Mar 16, 2010
Jazmine
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Realistic Fiction fans
Recommended to Jazmine by:
bff
Anna Percy is sick of her predictable life and is ready for excitement and a new image as she heads off to LA to stay with her Dad. ON the plane she is seated next to this chatty drunk Rick who keeps making moves on her when she is saved by a guy named Ben whom she finds herself falling for and when they are heated in the plane stall Rick rattles on them getting them in embarrassing trouble with the flight attendant. When they land Ben asks Anna to join him in going to Oscar winning Jackson Shar...more
I like the plot of this book. Anna Percy is a good girl, tired of her perfect grades and wants a change. She moves out of New York to live with her hard working father in LA. while she is on the plane she meets a boy, Ben, and this is when she starts her changes. Ben invites Anna to a wedding. this is the famous Grammy Award winning Jonathan Sharpe's Wedding. His daughter, Sam, has a crush on Ben and is expecting him to come to the wedding without a date. Sam was once very chubby and had a hard...more
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The A-List is about a girl named Anna Percy. Anna is the type of person who is basically great at everything she does. Anna has been in her best friends shadow for the past thirteen years. Anna soon becomes tired with her boring life. So she decides to jet off to LA to meet her dad and try to get a college internship. Instead she goes to an Oscar winner’s wedding, lounge at an after-hours back-lot party, and meet a guy named Ben, she just might love.
This genre is a Drama. The book’s weakness is...more
This genre is a Drama. The book’s weakness is...more
First off I want to say this book was fantastic. It entertained me and really kept me reading. There was always something exciting around the corner. Even though I immensly enjoyed this book Id have to say the ending completely drove me crazy. It left so many lose ends and really caused me to wonder. Now I really want to read the next book so I guess the lose ends were a good thing. It was honestly easy to relate to due to me being a love sick teenager just like Anna. Left curious about what goe...more
I picked this up around the time that I was reading all of the "Gossip Girl" novels. I believe the author is the same, just writing under a different name. As with all of the "Gossip Girl" novels that I made it through (about 10 in all), I didn't find it to be very likeable.
In "The A-List", one of Manhattan's Upper East Side elites, Anna, is transplanted to the West Coast. While I found Anna herself to have some redeeming qualities, most of the other characters have none, similar to nearly all o...more
In "The A-List", one of Manhattan's Upper East Side elites, Anna, is transplanted to the West Coast. While I found Anna herself to have some redeeming qualities, most of the other characters have none, similar to nearly all o...more
May 29, 2007
Molly McCullough
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Chick Flick Liking People
Shelves:
easysummerreads
This is a great easy chickflick that i think that everyone should read. It is full of scandal and intrigue that keeps u hooked and wanting to read more. I recommend that you read it during the summer thought because i guarantee you that your not going to be able to put it down. Also, read the rest of the series which is equally as good or better!!!
This book is a fun read that focuses on the lives of the overprivileged teenagers that live the most famous zip code, 90210. We envy their wealthy lifestyle and read in astonishment as the plot unravels and the drama gets larger. The story focuses on Anna an entitled teen that is yearning for adventure from her mundane life NYC. She decides to move to California with her father and while she is their has crazy experiences as three girls fight for the boy that she is now dating. Although the plot...more
Nov 15, 2011
Erica Schwer
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This novel truly defines what some people refer to as "chick lit." Zoey Dean paints a very glamorous lifestyle that a lot of young women wish they could be a part of, which is probably why some people find this book so intriguing. It is what everyone envisions as Hollywood, or wishes that what it was truly like. Talks of designer names, plastic surgery, shopping on Rodeo drive, and partying at Hollywood nightclubs are the main themes throughout this book. I suppose I can't hate too much on the l...more
This book is about a girl named Anna Percy. She is a very wealthy girl that has designer clothes and gets almost whatever whe wants. Except her crush, who is falling for her best friend. she wants so badly to get out of that city and take a break. when her internship falls through she flys to LA and lives with her father hopeing for an internship at a entertainment agency.
I can't really connect to this book. A text-to-world connection that I have would be that people who are rich or live in beve...more
I can't really connect to this book. A text-to-world connection that I have would be that people who are rich or live in beve...more
1) What did you like about the book & what could have been better.
What I liked:
The setting and circumstances for the book were pretty different. Some of the characters were lovely and intriguing. Each character (main ones) had a personal dilemma that they only dealt with themselves (it wasn't a major subplot).
What could have been better:
Character development, a lot of these characters were as shallow as a kiddie pool. Plots were started in the beginning of the novel and were either abandone...more
What I liked:
The setting and circumstances for the book were pretty different. Some of the characters were lovely and intriguing. Each character (main ones) had a personal dilemma that they only dealt with themselves (it wasn't a major subplot).
What could have been better:
Character development, a lot of these characters were as shallow as a kiddie pool. Plots were started in the beginning of the novel and were either abandone...more
Where found: Barnes & Nobles of course! :) I have a membership. This was an impulse purchase.
Positive: Due to my NYC obsession, I always enjoy a character from New York, and Anna was no exception. I loved her love of literature and could really relate to her. I also fell in love with Ben. He just sounded so hot, and I hated him for what he did to Anna at the end of the novel. I was laughing really hard during the scene on the airplane.
Negative: I didn't really like Cammie or Sam. I felt lik...more
Positive: Due to my NYC obsession, I always enjoy a character from New York, and Anna was no exception. I loved her love of literature and could really relate to her. I also fell in love with Ben. He just sounded so hot, and I hated him for what he did to Anna at the end of the novel. I was laughing really hard during the scene on the airplane.
Negative: I didn't really like Cammie or Sam. I felt lik...more
Mar 25, 2009
Sylviaelizondo
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
girls who like chickflick
Recommended to Sylviaelizondo by:
sofi elizondo
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This book was interesting. I was confused throughout the middle. There a lot of characters to keep track of, and I think that it was a pretty "13 year old girly girl" stereotype kind of a book. Though I did like it and the description was nice! I plan on reading the second book, Girls on Film!
There was an interesting twist to this book, and the end is a great cliffhanger, though I feel that this is just to make you want to buy the second book because there are no other cliffhangers throughout th...more
There was an interesting twist to this book, and the end is a great cliffhanger, though I feel that this is just to make you want to buy the second book because there are no other cliffhangers throughout th...more
I think that the author wrote this book to show readers the life of the rich and famous in California. I also think she wrote this book as a romance novel. This book is extremely interesting. I couldn't put it down!
The book was about a girl, Anna Percy, who moved from New York to California. Anna was going to California to live with the father that has been out of her life for the majority of her life. She went to California to reinvent herself. On the plane there, she met a boy, Ben Birmbaum...more
The book was about a girl, Anna Percy, who moved from New York to California. Anna was going to California to live with the father that has been out of her life for the majority of her life. She went to California to reinvent herself. On the plane there, she met a boy, Ben Birmbaum...more
When I picked this up at a library sale for $1, I was in the mood for something light and frothy, silly and stupid. Be careful what you wish for! Deeply, deeply awful. I think I finished it out of a sense of curiosity. Can’t believe that this stuff could get published, let alone become popular. This book is part of a series that made the NY Times Best Seller list. Really?? This is what the youth of America is reading these days? I’m not sure that doesn’t constitute child abuse on some level.
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1st in the series Anna goes to Veverly Hills to see her dad and finds herself in the world of th rich on the west coast. She falls in love with Ben on her plane trip to Beverly Hills and his dad at Jackson Sharpe's wedding her first night there. There she meets Sam, Cammie, and Dee all of her are in love with Ben, and so they treat her less then kindly when they meet her. Sam starts trying to be nice to Anna, but then Anna really starts to just hate the world when ben ditches her on a boat, and...more
The A-List by Zoey Dean is a fiction book about a 17 year-old girl named Anna, who’s tired of playing life on the safe side. To embark on her new adventure, she moves out to L.A. to live with her dad and get a fresh experience. When she meets an interesting (and very hot) guy on her plane ride over, she’s whisked away into an crazy city filled with jealous girls and people trying to claw their way to the top. Can Anna handle all of this, only in her first week?
The A-List is a good book overall b...more
The A-List is a good book overall b...more
A-List is following Anna Percy who was raised in NYC on the Upper East Side. As she has grown up there with a very gifted and weathly life, Private School preppy life. While going to Los Angles Anna has been assigned to sit with a ver annoying person who would not stop talking about him. Saved from a terrible picture, a hot guy Ben Birnbaum, as they start to build up a relationship she, she acceptes to go the the A-lister Jackson Sharpe wedding, on which Ben invited her to. The internal conflict...more
Amazing book, w/ some pg-13 material of course. I love the characters, even the mean ones seem cool. The plot is not something totally new but the book is still fun and enjoyable. I love thinking that this is really what life is for the A-list! They've got characters w/ diverse personalities from new york and LA, but they have one thing in common ... they're rich, most probably famous, and they're on the A-list. Lots of things are going on but it's not confusing. The point of view is in 3rd pers...more
I thought this book was really good. I am completely a girl that has dreamed of moving to Los Angeles and all of that so this book gave me alittle insight as how the "other side" lives. Who knows if this is really how things go on there but I loved it anyways. I really relate to Anna in the way that her mother has raised her and how she wants to be different. After this first book I was hooked and haven't been let down since. Some characters aren't all that they seem, I will just say that about...more
Humility and being humble plays an important message throughout its themes. Although the main characters in this book portray the exact opposite, the value in these virtues are shown in their mistakes and troubles they go through—thus still providing lessons to the readers. These examples are your average teen fiction drama but knowing that similar petty problems exist in the world, I feel that they have potential to help readers appreciate what they have whilst remaining unpretentious. Life may...more
Jun 14, 2012
louisfondue
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Dumb Fucks
Recommended to louisfondue by:
A Dumb Fuck
This book is a flying turd.
What?
This book is highly praised by other famous books (The Clique, etc.). But why?
This book is about a couple ofrich sluts who made me wants to jab my eyes out girls who are all falling for the same guy.
AnnaPierce Percy
Oh, Anna. Where do I start? She's on a plane, when she is sitting next to a sleazebag who tries to fuck her. Some random dude 'Saves The Day' and tries to fuck her himself in the bathroom. They get called out by the attendent and are red-faced. She sh...more
What?
This book is highly praised by other famous books (The Clique, etc.). But why?
This book is about a couple of
Anna
Oh, Anna. Where do I start? She's on a plane, when she is sitting next to a sleazebag who tries to fuck her. Some random dude 'Saves The Day' and tries to fuck her himself in the bathroom. They get called out by the attendent and are red-faced. She sh...more
This review is on the book The a-list by Zoey Dean. The main characters are Anna,Ben,and Sam. Most chapters are from Anna’s point of view. Anna who is from Manhattan, New York moves to Los Angeles, California to be with her dad while her mom goes on a trip. On Anna’s plane ride over she might have had a few drinks and she had a seat next to a fourty something year old who would not stop talking about himself and his who forty years of being on this planet. She meet Ben who was close to her on t...more
After 18 years of being nice, polite and perfectly boring, Anna Percy had it enough. Wanting to step outside the safe box called life of a New York City Upper East Side WASPy prep-school girl, Anna seizes the opportunity and jets off to L.A. where her long-divorced father lives. What Anna doesn't know yet is that with flying off to L.A., a new chapter of her life begins: First she meets the gorgeous Ben Birnbaum on the plane, goes to the all-exclusive wedding of a famous Hollywood actor and its...more
I had bought this book awhile ago, but it took me forever to read it because other books got in the way. But I'm in a young adult carefree mood, so after finishing up the fifth book in the Privilege series. I picked up this book, which happened to be sitting right next to my Privilege novels on one of my bookcases. Some time ago I had read an article on Gossip Girl author, Cecily von Ziegesar and it compared some of the series that came after the success of GG. So I had that in mind while readin...more
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The author of The A-List series and How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as Privileged on the CW in September 2008. Zoey Dean's books are produced by the media packager Alloy Entertainment, which created Gossip Girl, The Clique Series, and The A-List and sold them to Little, Brown and Company.
Zoey is currently working on The Talent series. She is...more
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