**Contemporary Book Recommendations**

As a book lover, I'm always excited to share my favorite contemporary books with others. In this article, I'll be sharing some of my personal recommendations for contemporary fiction, including "French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins, "We Were Liars" by E Lockhart, "Winger" by Andrew Smith, and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer.

**French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins**

I recently finished reading "French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins and absolutely loved it. The book is about a girl named Anna who moves from New York to France for her senior year of high school, leaving behind her friends and the life she knew. As she navigates her new surroundings, Anna meets a charming French boy named Etienne, and their relationship blossoms into something beautiful. I was swept away by this romance novel, which is full of quirky characters, witty dialogue, and swoon-worthy moments. The author's writing style is effortless and engaging, making it impossible to put the book down.

I also appreciated how Perkins leaves some things unsaid, allowing readers to fill in the gaps and interpret the story for themselves. This approach adds a layer of depth to the novel, making it feel more authentic and relatable. Overall, I highly recommend "French Kiss" to anyone looking for a fun and romantic read.

**We Were Liars by E Lockhart**

Another book that has gained a lot of attention on BookTube is "We Were Liars" by E Lockhart. While some people have been divided in their opinions about the book, I firmly believe it's an incredible story that deserves to be shared with others. The author masterfully weaves together a complex narrative that explores themes of privilege, class, and identity.

I was initially put off by the middle section of the book, which felt a bit slow and meandering at times. However, I found myself becoming increasingly invested in the story as it progressed, and the payoff was well worth the wait. The ending is truly mind-blowing, and I won't say any more to avoid spoiling it for readers.

One thing that struck me about "We Were Liars" was its universality. Despite being set in an elite boarding school, the book tackles topics that are relevant to readers of all backgrounds and experiences. Lockhart's writing is evocative and poetic, making it easy to become immersed in the world she creates.

**Winger by Andrew Smith**

I recently picked up "Winger" by Andrew Smith, which I was initially skeptical about due to its boy-focused narrative. However, as soon as I began reading, I realized that this book is so much more than just a story about boys – it's a powerful exploration of identity, community, and the complexities of human relationships.

The author tackles some tough subjects in an approachable and accessible way, making "Winger" feel both fun and thought-provoking. The writing style is engaging and easy to follow, with vivid descriptions that bring the characters and settings to life. I particularly appreciated how Smith handles sensitive topics, such as mental health and trauma, with care and nuance.

One of the things that resonated with me most about "Winger" was its exploration of what it means to belong and find one's place in the world. The author raises important questions about identity, community, and the ways in which we connect with others – all without feeling too preachy or heavy-handed.

**Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer**

Finally, I want to recommend "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. This novel may be an adult book, but its themes and writing style make it accessible and engaging for readers of all ages.

The story follows Oscar, a nine-year-old boy who sets out on a journey through New York City to find the lock that fits the key his father left behind before his death in the 9/11 attacks. Along the way, Oscar encounters a cast of characters who teach him about grief, love, and the complexities of human relationships.

One of the things I loved most about this book was its use of illustrations – yes, you read that right! Foer includes a series of black-and-white photographs throughout the novel, which add an extra layer of depth and emotion to the story. These images feel like a time capsule from another era, and they help to convey the sense of loss and longing that permeates the narrative.

Overall, I highly recommend "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" to anyone who loves literary fiction or is simply looking for a thought-provoking read. Foer's writing style is beautiful and evocative, making it easy to become fully immersed in Oscar's world.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone Italian today I'm going to be filming my second video for my series called Haley's recommended breeds and today's episode is going to be for a contemporary so if you guys didn't know what Haley's recommended Reed's is it's where I take in Chandra and I tell you guys what I recommend from it so the first one I did was for historical fiction so link that down below if you want to watch it and for those of you who are wondering what I'm currently reading I am reading legend by Marie Leo I'm only about 50 pages and so I don't really have any coherent thoughts on it but I do really like it so far so contemporary fiction is also known as realistic fiction and it surrounds real-life events um so yeah it's really relatable a lot of it it's boy meets girl they fall in love blah blah blah but a lot of it is much deeper than that and those are the books that I like sometimes I do like the dress boy meets girl but most of the time I like books with a deeper meaning to them so yeah let's just jump right into it so I'm just gonna get this out of the way and I'm just gonna recommend anything by John Green but I'm going to just tell you guys my top two favorite genre John Green books I just called them John Green so French so obviously one of my all-time favorite books is The Fault in Our Stars this book is if you didn't know which you probably did the movie just came out which is absolutely incredible as well this book is about cancer it's about two kids with cancer and it's just about love but it's it goes much deeper than that and that's why I love John Green his books always have like on the surface there's one thing but then if you look deeper there's so much more to them this is a book about finding yourself and just accepting the challenges that you have to deal with and accepting that they're out of your control and just living despite that it's such a good book I can't even I can't describe it you just need me to read it I have read it 15 times now you can pick it up at least once and I've also listen to the audio book like a bunch of times I just love this book you really just need to give it a chance even if it doesn't seem like your thing and you think it's gonna be too sad just pick it up that's so my own stop next my second favorite John Green book is Looking for Alaska this book I've read for school so it's all covered in notes and stuff but this is an amazing book so the main character Pudge goes away to a boarding school and she meets a bunch of friends and it's just kind of both their adventures and the troubles that they have and it's just really a story about how teens are messed up but that doesn't mean it's the end of the world and it's just like I can't it's so good so good so now onto the other books I recommend first I have a man Rodgers epic detour by Morgan Matson this is my favorite Morgan Matson book it is such a good book this book is about a girl named Amy who is moving from California to Connecticut after her father passes away in a car accident but her job is to move the car from California to Connecticut and she doesn't feel comfortable with driving after the accident so her mother calls in a family friend son named Roger and Roger is there to help Amy and he is the one who's going to actually be doing the driving from California to Connecticut so it's just a story about their adventures along the way and it's such a beautiful story what really makes this book though is the it has like little just little things like it has little drawings and little pictures and stuff and the ending of this book is just incredible I loved it because it doesn't blatantly tell you what happened it just leaves it to your interpretation which is just really really awesome next I have in in the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins I finished this book a couple of days ago and I absolutely loved it I couldn't put it down I was up until 4:00 in the morning reading this book it was so so so good I'm actually reading Lola and the boy next door right now because this book is the first in a series of companion novels there's Lola and the boy next door and then there's Isla and the happily ever after just somewhere over here you probably can't see it but yeah these books are just QC romances but they are just so quirky and fun and the characters are just awesome I am so so glad I finally read this book it's one of my new all-time favorites this book is about a girl named Anna whose father moves her from her home in New York to a boarding school in France or not not New York her home in Atlanta to a boarding school in France and she's not too happy about this move because it's her senior year and she wants to spend it with her friends but she goes to France and she meets a bunch of friends and she meets a TN Sinclair and it's just it goes from there and it's just oh magic it's just magical that's it just read it next I have we were Liars by E Lockhart this book has been getting a lot of love on booktube but also a lot of hate a lot of people are they either love it or they hate it there's no really in-between but I loved it I was spoiled for the ending which was really annoying I'm not gonna give you guys a synopsis because as I'm sure you've heard it's best to go into it blind but I just you should read it it's an incredible story it's just so mind-blowing and just beautiful and I will admit the middle is a little bit boring but it's all worth it in the end it really really is next I have winger by Andrew Smith this is an amazing amazing book I was really skeptical on it because it looks from the cover like a really boy book and it is a boy book but it is also just universal it talks about it has to do with a topic that is really taboo and it's just kind of underlying the rest of the story the story is really fun but then you have this kind of deeper like topic that needs to be discussed more that is brought into this book which I think it's just so great I think it does really need to be talked about and I think it's awesome to put it into a book like this that just seems so fun and then you just have that there and it's just there so yeah I I'm not gonna tell you what the topic is because that kind of gives away things but it's really an awesome book you just really really really need to read it it's so good it's amazing just I loved it I absolutely loved it it was like life-changing so the final book I wanted to talk to you guys about is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer this is actually an adult book but it is such a good book it's also a movie I saw the movie first and then I picked up the book but I still did love the book it's one of my favorites this is a story about a boy who is nine years old his name is Oscar and his father was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center so he is on this journey through New York trying to find the lock that fits a key he found of his father's so it's just incredible incredible story there's also in this book like little pictures of things like it's just so good and the pictures just add to it I mean you're just brought in to like look at that you're just brought into this nine year olds mind and you just forget about everything else and I found myself talking like him while I was reading this book because I just I was so immersed in this story it's just such a great book I really really recommend it even if you're not used to adult fiction this is a really easy one to read so I would just just read it so these are all of my recommendations for contemporary so far I'll probably be doing an update of this video either in a year or six months I just picked a few of them because I didn't want there to be too many although I do have many more favorites for contemporary but yeah any of these books I'm sure you will love let me know if you've read any and also let me know your favorite contemporaries and I'll see you guys in the next video byehey everyone Italian today I'm going to be filming my second video for my series called Haley's recommended breeds and today's episode is going to be for a contemporary so if you guys didn't know what Haley's recommended Reed's is it's where I take in Chandra and I tell you guys what I recommend from it so the first one I did was for historical fiction so link that down below if you want to watch it and for those of you who are wondering what I'm currently reading I am reading legend by Marie Leo I'm only about 50 pages and so I don't really have any coherent thoughts on it but I do really like it so far so contemporary fiction is also known as realistic fiction and it surrounds real-life events um so yeah it's really relatable a lot of it it's boy meets girl they fall in love blah blah blah but a lot of it is much deeper than that and those are the books that I like sometimes I do like the dress boy meets girl but most of the time I like books with a deeper meaning to them so yeah let's just jump right into it so I'm just gonna get this out of the way and I'm just gonna recommend anything by John Green but I'm going to just tell you guys my top two favorite genre John Green books I just called them John Green so French so obviously one of my all-time favorite books is The Fault in Our Stars this book is if you didn't know which you probably did the movie just came out which is absolutely incredible as well this book is about cancer it's about two kids with cancer and it's just about love but it's it goes much deeper than that and that's why I love John Green his books always have like on the surface there's one thing but then if you look deeper there's so much more to them this is a book about finding yourself and just accepting the challenges that you have to deal with and accepting that they're out of your control and just living despite that it's such a good book I can't even I can't describe it you just need me to read it I have read it 15 times now you can pick it up at least once and I've also listen to the audio book like a bunch of times I just love this book you really just need to give it a chance even if it doesn't seem like your thing and you think it's gonna be too sad just pick it up that's so my own stop next my second favorite John Green book is Looking for Alaska this book I've read for school so it's all covered in notes and stuff but this is an amazing book so the main character Pudge goes away to a boarding school and she meets a bunch of friends and it's just kind of both their adventures and the troubles that they have and it's just really a story about how teens are messed up but that doesn't mean it's the end of the world and it's just like I can't it's so good so good so now onto the other books I recommend first I have a man Rodgers epic detour by Morgan Matson this is my favorite Morgan Matson book it is such a good book this book is about a girl named Amy who is moving from California to Connecticut after her father passes away in a car accident but her job is to move the car from California to Connecticut and she doesn't feel comfortable with driving after the accident so her mother calls in a family friend son named Roger and Roger is there to help Amy and he is the one who's going to actually be doing the driving from California to Connecticut so it's just a story about their adventures along the way and it's such a beautiful story what really makes this book though is the it has like little just little things like it has little drawings and little pictures and stuff and the ending of this book is just incredible I loved it because it doesn't blatantly tell you what happened it just leaves it to your interpretation which is just really really awesome next I have in in the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins I finished this book a couple of days ago and I absolutely loved it I couldn't put it down I was up until 4:00 in the morning reading this book it was so so so good I'm actually reading Lola and the boy next door right now because this book is the first in a series of companion novels there's Lola and the boy next door and then there's Isla and the happily ever after just somewhere over here you probably can't see it but yeah these books are just QC romances but they are just so quirky and fun and the characters are just awesome I am so so glad I finally read this book it's one of my new all-time favorites this book is about a girl named Anna whose father moves her from her home in New York to a boarding school in France or not not New York her home in Atlanta to a boarding school in France and she's not too happy about this move because it's her senior year and she wants to spend it with her friends but she goes to France and she meets a bunch of friends and she meets a TN Sinclair and it's just it goes from there and it's just oh magic it's just magical that's it just read it next I have we were Liars by E Lockhart this book has been getting a lot of love on booktube but also a lot of hate a lot of people are they either love it or they hate it there's no really in-between but I loved it I was spoiled for the ending which was really annoying I'm not gonna give you guys a synopsis because as I'm sure you've heard it's best to go into it blind but I just you should read it it's an incredible story it's just so mind-blowing and just beautiful and I will admit the middle is a little bit boring but it's all worth it in the end it really really is next I have winger by Andrew Smith this is an amazing amazing book I was really skeptical on it because it looks from the cover like a really boy book and it is a boy book but it is also just universal it talks about it has to do with a topic that is really taboo and it's just kind of underlying the rest of the story the story is really fun but then you have this kind of deeper like topic that needs to be discussed more that is brought into this book which I think it's just so great I think it does really need to be talked about and I think it's awesome to put it into a book like this that just seems so fun and then you just have that there and it's just there so yeah I I'm not gonna tell you what the topic is because that kind of gives away things but it's really an awesome book you just really really really need to read it it's so good it's amazing just I loved it I absolutely loved it it was like life-changing so the final book I wanted to talk to you guys about is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer this is actually an adult book but it is such a good book it's also a movie I saw the movie first and then I picked up the book but I still did love the book it's one of my favorites this is a story about a boy who is nine years old his name is Oscar and his father was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center so he is on this journey through New York trying to find the lock that fits a key he found of his father's so it's just incredible incredible story there's also in this book like little pictures of things like it's just so good and the pictures just add to it I mean you're just brought in to like look at that you're just brought into this nine year olds mind and you just forget about everything else and I found myself talking like him while I was reading this book because I just I was so immersed in this story it's just such a great book I really really recommend it even if you're not used to adult fiction this is a really easy one to read so I would just just read it so these are all of my recommendations for contemporary so far I'll probably be doing an update of this video either in a year or six months I just picked a few of them because I didn't want there to be too many although I do have many more favorites for contemporary but yeah any of these books I'm sure you will love let me know if you've read any and also let me know your favorite contemporaries and I'll see you guys in the next video bye\n"