Consider This: What does a Writer read?

I recently found myself at a loss for something to read in my house. I have MILLIONS of books (maybe not millions, but I do have LOTS). But I have read most of them and the rest... meh (at the moment, anyway).

The Book Depository! What could I find to interest me? What has been intriguing me lately?

I am currently writing a YA and felt I wanted to read some more of that. Not the angsty YA (not really in to that stuff, never was) but the dystopian, "Hunger Games" sort. I did enjoy the "Hunger Games" (but, really, I wanted to slap Katniss and tell her to snap out of it). In my MA (Creative Writing) I studied YA and writing YA, and had read the first in the "Uglies" series by Scott Westerfeld. Well, why not read the rest of that series? So I bought that series. Then, well, why not READ "The Maze Runner" series and the "Divergent" series? I enjoyed the movies alright and the books are usually better than the movies and it would be interesting to see the writing style. So, I bought those series, too.

Which to start first? "The Maze Runner" arrived on my door step first, so I began that and devoured the first book. The short chapters, the cliff hangers, the fact I had the visuals mostly in my head (sometimes an essential for me - I just couldn't read the "Dune" series by Frank Herbert until I had seen the original movie, the concepts were far too foreign), the book just seem to slip by. Now I'm onto the "Scorch Trials" and the other two series are dutifully sitting beside by bed waiting their turn!

But I ask myself, where was this awesome stuff when I was a teen? And this is the sort of fiction I write.