Prompt 6: A book written by someone under 30

[Ann]

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have? Are you reading a book by an author who is under 30 now or under 30 when they wrote the book?

[Lynn]

I took it to mean under 30 when they wrote the book, though I do not know what I'm reading for it yet.

[Hilary]

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

[Julia]

I read "The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht and found the writing fantastic but got lost at several points in the story.

[Leanne]

The bell Jar. I am looking forward to it. This is the perfect year for this prompt as I am turning 30.

[Krissy]

Fiend

I am currently in the middle of this one.

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My book for this was Justine's Blood by Max Kirin. I'm not entirely sure how old he is, but I know that he's young.

[Heidi]

I'll be reading Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

She's currently 30 (about to turn 31 according to Wikipedia), but she was 28 when Cinder was published so I'll let myself have it!

[Angela]

I read Looking for alaska by John Green and Speechless by Hannah Harrington. I loved both of them.

[Jennifer]

I read Insurgent by Veronica Roth. She was 24 when it was published. It took me a while to get into it, but after it picked up I loved it. I feel that way about the second books in a series quite often.

[Alexis]

Jennifer wrote: "I read Insurgent by Veronica Roth. She was 24 when it was published. It took me a while to get into it, but after it picked up I loved it. I feel that way about t..."

I read Insurgent immediately after finishing Divergent, so that wasn't the case for me, but I sometimes feel like the first book of a series is like the passionate flames of the first few months of love and then the love burns down to hot coals for the later books. If the author did their job right, there is still some warmth by the time you finish the last book of the series.

[Alexis]

I just finished listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxay by Douglas Adams. He was 27 years old when the book was published in 1979. Read by Stephen Fry, it was a lot of fun.

[Lauri]

I just finished reading This Side of Paradise by, F. Scott Fitzgerald, he was 23 when the novel was published in 1920.

[Juanita]

I am so grateful to find this group! I was at a loss for what to pick but now plan to read "Tales of the Jazz Age" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bonus that I already own it!

[Eva]

I'll be reading Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. She was 27/28 when this was published in 2013.

[Kiki]

I could recommend Teo by Lorenza Gentile. She was born '88 and the book is a really sweet and short read.

[Karen]

I highly recommend The Heart is a Lonely Hunter to anybody looking for something in this category. Carson McCullers wrote this beautiful and moving book when she was only 23 years old.

[Michelle]

This is a series but I didnt like it enough to read anything else.

It could have been really good...the premise was unique...but it fell flat. Only slightly entertaining.

[Shirley J]

by Pete Fromm.

He spent 7 months living in the wilderness when he was a college student. Easily read in a day and an interesting memoir about the trial and errors of living and surviving with minimal supplies, comfort and safety.

[Ray]

Call of the Wild. Jack London was in his 20s when he wrote it.

[WyoLady 93]

I read Eragon, by Christopher Paolini several years back. The author was under 20 when he wrote the first of this series. I believe I will try to find my copy of the second in the series (so many of my books are still packed after a move a couple of years ago) Eldest, which he wrote while still under 30.

[Megan]

I read Four: A Divergent Story Collection to complete Veronica Roth's Divergent series.

[Sara]

I read Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was in her early 20's when she wrote it.

[Michelle]

Sara wrote: "I read Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was in her early 20's when she wrote it."

Whadya think?

[Sara]

Michelle, I did enjoy Frankenstein! Classics can be a struggle for me sometimes so there were a few spots that dragged, but overall I enjoyed it!

[GailW]

The Tigers Wife by Tea Obrecht. I liked it but feel I have missed something. Need to read again

[Jazs]

Had trouble with this one, I was going through my To-read list here on Goodreads with my calculator trying to find something that I'd already saved as a to-read before realizing I'd already read one - A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe.

[Melody]

Leanne wrote: "The bell Jar. I am looking forward to it. This is the perfect year for this prompt as I am turning 30."

I also read The Bell Jar for another challenge! Just finished it last week! What did you think of it?

[Michelle]

I read The Bell Jar for the category: A popular author's first novel.

I found it very interesting and chaotic. I liked that it was semi autobiographical. But where Sylvia started and ended, I dont know.

[Nicole]

I've been struggling with a book for this prompt. I finally found a lesser known book/author, How To Be A Good Wife by Emma Chapman. I'm looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds.

[Emily]

I read Rosie Dunne by Cecilia Ahern. She was 24 when it was published back in 2005.

[Melanie]

I read Vaclev and Lena by Haley Tanner for this prompt.

[J.]

I read Unravel Me. While it was the 2nd book in the trilogy & I had read none of the other books, I could keep up.

[AlegnaB †]

I read The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Obviously, I read a book by an author who was under 30 when she wrote the book.

[Miki Mackennedy]

Krissy wrote: "
Fiend

I am currently in the middle of this one."

What did you think of Fiend?

[Guylian]

Finally finished - with interruptions Marina Keegan "Das Gegenteil von Einsamkeit" "The Opposite of Loneliness"

[Melody]

I read The Rules of Attraction, written by Bret Easton Ellis when he was only 23 years old. It very much seems like the kind of novel someone would write just after they get out of college, a book dripping with unaffeced ennui about a group of wealthy liberal arts students who do drugs and have sex with eachother. I'm not sure exactly how much I liked it, tbh. The writing was good, but it somehow felt sympathetically nihilistic and moralistically condescending at the same time. If you're interested in reading The Rules of Attraction, you could also count it for 3. Turned into a Film or 34. Love Triangle, oh so many love triangles and rhombuses and dodecahedrons.

[Kerryann]

I read Bridgevine by John Feldman

[Angela]

The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht

[Angela]

The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht

[Krissy]

Miki wrote: "Krissy wrote: "
Fiend

I am currently in the middle of this one."

What did you think of Fiend?"

I loved it!

[Tara]

I read Hope: a memoir of survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus

[Brooke]

i read Red Rising for this Brown is 28