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Your country is essentially ‘quarantined’ due to poisonous, deadly pollution that manifests itself as fog. It’s hard to see and breathe.

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100 wonderful books by women (#readwomen)

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@ladybookmad made this thing, #readwomen, where you dedicate the month of December to only reading works by women! I was really glad to realize that the majority of my books, read and unread, are by women. The fact is that women write some kickass books so I thought i’d compile a list that might help others decide what to read in December, and also to remind everyone of the exceptional talent that we get to enjoy from lady authors!

50 books by women that I have read and loved!!!

Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J Maas  @sjmaas


The Bone Season (series) by Samantha Shannon @sshannonauthor


Easy by Tammara Webber

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater @maggie-stiefvater


Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo @lbardugo


Blood Red Road (The Dustlands trilogy) by Moira Young

Clean by Amy Reed

Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell


Wait for You by J Lynn

The Summer I Turned Pretty (trilogy) by Jenny Han @jennyhan


How To Love by Katie Cotugno

Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins @naturallysteph


Forget You by Jennifer Echols

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare


Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls) by Maggie Stiefvater

The Summoning (The Darkest Powers trilogy) by Kelly Armstrong

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Losing It by Cora Carmack

The Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

Wither (The Chemical Garden trilogy) by Lauren Destefano @laurendestefano


40 Things I Want to Tell You by Alice Kuipers @alicekuipersauthor


When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers @summerscourtney


To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Since You’ve Been Gone by Anouska Knight

Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck

I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk

The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenberg

Obsidian (The Lux series) by Jennifer L Armentrout

Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen

Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendra Blake

Starry Night by Debby Maccomber

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone (Harry Potter series) by JK Rowling

Divergent (trilogy) by Veronica Roth

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Beautiful Disaster by Jaimie McGuire 

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

50 books by women that I have yet to read!!! (*** ones that I hope to read during December)

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas


The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith

Girl of Nightmares by Kendra Blake

The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin @michellehodkin


The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Cress by Marissa Meyer***

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

Love in The Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

Written In Red by Anne Bishop***

On Dublin Street by Samantha Young

Outlander by Dianna Gabaldon

Saint Anything by Sarah Desson

By Invitation Only by Jodi Della Famina and Sheri McInnis

The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault 

Finnikin of The Rock by Melina Marchetta

The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke

My Teenage Beating Heart by C.K. Kelly Martin

Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys

What Goes Around by Courtney Summers

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson 

After by Anna Todd

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

Golden Boy by Abigail Tartellin***

Antigoddess by Kendra Blake

Fault Line by Christa Desir

We Were Liars by E Lockhart

The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh***

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

Here’s Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven @jenniferniven


Faking Normal by Courtney C Stevens

The Story of Us by Deb Caletti 

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

Raging Star by Moira Young

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

These Broken Stars by Amy Kauffman and Megan Spooner

The Coldest Girl in Cold Town by Holly Black

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski 

Meet Me Under The Mistletoe by JoAnn Durgin***

Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick***

Legend by Marie Lu @marielubooks


The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

P.S. TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BENT OUT OF SHAPE OVER #readwomen: please love yourself, this shit is amazing. Why not spend a whole month appreciating the absolute gold mine of works by women? Why the hell not? 

Thanks for including 40 Things. And thanks for all the other suggestions for great reads…

I saw this and knew it was a superb writing prompt for...

I saw this and knew it was a superb writing prompt for today…

Journal seeks writing from teenagers

Teenage Wasteland Review seeks submissions from teenagers ages 13 to 19 Issue #2. Accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Submissions will also be considered for the Muriel Avellaneda Prize for Young Writers. Poetry: 3 poems max; prose: 5000 words max. Deadline: November 30, 2015. Guidelines.

Five Tips for aspiring writers from Amanda Labonté

Amanda’s terrific debut novel for teens, Call of The Sea, is a harrowing, beautiful, magical read. I liked it so much, I blurbed it! Amanda shared with me a writing prompt, her favourite novel, both of which I’ll share in my newsletter (sign up here) I’m excited to host Amanda here today as she shares her five tips for aspiring writers with you.

1. Join a writing group or, if you need more structure and have the money take a creative writing class. A writing group or class helps in two really important ways. Firstly, it gets you writing. Secondly, it will help you get used to criticism and feedback which is helpful in the long run, especially when you start approaching publishers and editors.

2. Read in your genre. Not for ideas (you have those) but to understand what the audience will expect of the genre. Plus it’s fun.

3. Figure out a time of day that works for writing and then write at that time every day. It doesn’t have to be a lot of time, but a consistent time makes a difference. Otherwise writing is the thing you get to after cleaning, groceries, changing the oil, reshingling the roof, learning to knit, etc.

4. Set a deadline for someone to read a draft of your manuscript. Whether it’s a friend with a strong interest in the genre or a paid editor, nothing gets a writer writing like having a deadline.

5. Done is better than perfect. That’s the motto I had to live by last going off. Editing can become addictive and it’s easy to fall into the trap of constantly looking for something new to fix. Accept that your work will never be ‘perfect’ but if you have put in the time, effort and editing, it can be finished.

Find Amanda here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amandalabontewrites

Twitter: @amlabonte

Instagram: @amlabonte

Fascinating, smart, hopefully inspiring…

Fascinating, smart, hopefully inspiring…

Rivers in the sky

Rivers in the sky

Prompt: Write about someone bonkers in your own life - imaginary...

Prompt: Write about someone bonkers in your own life - imaginary or real.

Writing today? A little nostalgia as you hit the...

Writing today? A little nostalgia as you hit the keyboard….

One Story

From the desk of Hannah Tinti
Editor-in-Chief
One Story

Issue #212 “When in the Dordogne” by Lily King
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”

I often quote this Kurt Vonnegut line to my students. It’s great advice for writers trying to create compelling fiction on the page. But as a reader, I sometimes find it hard to keep turning the pages as horrible events are heaped onto my favorite characters. I want them to have happy endings instead. This contradiction got me thinking about happiness as a literary device. It’s just as layered and complex as anger or hate, but authors often avoid it in their work. Why? I wondered. So I asked around. The truth of the matter seems to be this: happiness is really, really, really hard to pull off—in life, and in literature. Luckily, in our new issue, “When in the Dordogne,” we’re in the talented hands of author Lily King. Set over one magical summer, the story begins as a lonely boy is left in the care of two house-sitting college students. These young men are bristling with energy and joie-de-vivre, and in between raiding the fridge and cannonballing into the pool, they teach our boy lessons about friendship and love and finding joy that he carries with him for the rest of his life. Happiness is rare, and wonderful. When it comes, we must grab it with both hands. So read more about Lily King in her Q&A with us, and hold tight onto “When in the Dordogne.”

This introduction is for One Story issue #212, “When in the Dordogne” by Lily King. To subscribe to One Story: click here

Once you’ve read it, we’d love to hear what you think.