The Things We Do For Love

Love can be great--love for friends, family, guys, girls--but it makes
us behave in all kinds of weird ways! Check out these titles
about the things we do for the sake of love.

Purple Hibiscus
Adichie, Chimamanda (YA ADICHIE)
Kambili & Jaja learn that there is more to love than their father’s tyranny.

Burger Wuss
Anderson, M.T. (YA ANDERSON)
“It was hard not to feel ugly.”

Sharing Sam
Applegate, Katherine (YA APPLEGATE)
Can Alison give up the love of her life for her dying friend?

Thwonk
Bauer, Joan (YA BAUER)
“Falling in love is a massive pain.”

Joy School
Berg, Elizabeth (FIC BERG)
“I do not need love, I am just going to be a poet.”

Circle of Friends
Binchy, Maeve (FIC BINCHY)
“He tried to put her out of his mind.”

Candy
Brooks, Kevin (YA BROOKS)
Boring Joe’s life becomes “interesting” when he hooks up w/ Candy’s world of drugs & violence.

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Caletti, Deb (YA CALETTI)
“What happened...was not about recklessness. It was about the way...a single moment can change things & make you decide to try to be someone different.”

Truth or Dairy
Clark, Catherine (YA CLARK)
“It’s true; life can get weirder.”

Gingerbread
Cohn, Rachel (YA COHN)
"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter."

Many Stones
Coman, Carolyn (YA COMAN)
“Nothing I know comes close to being a matter of life & death.”

Tenderness
Cormier, Robert (YA CORMIER)
Will Eric & Lori be each other’s salvation or destruction?

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Crutcher, Chris (YA CRUTCHER)
Eric goes to extremes to help save his friend from the scars she bears inside and out.

Dreamland
Dessen, Sarah (YA DESSEN)
Why can’t she leave the boy who hits her?

Mistress of Spices
Divakaruni, Chitra (YA DIVAKARUNI)
Choose: an immortal life or love?

Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura (FIC ESQUIVEL)
Must true love be forsaken for tradition?

Who Am I Without Him?
Flake, Sharon (YA FLAKE)
Short stories about girls & the boys in their lives.

Cold Mountain
Frazier, Charles (FIC FRAZIER)
Wounded & a Civil War deserter, Inman walks 300 miles in the hope of finding home & the woman he loves.

Troy
Geras, Adele (YA GERAS)
When the Greek gods mess with your love life . . .

Just Ella
Haddix, Margaret Peterson (YA HADDIX)
Who knew happily ever after could be so . . . boring!

Donorboy
Halpin, Brendan (FIC HALPIN)
Rosalind had 2 mommies. Now, thanks to a tragedy, she’s stuck w/ her sperm donor for a parent.

Chocolat
Harris, Joanne (FIC HARRIS)
A French village is transformed by love & chocolate.

About a Boy
Hornby, Nick (FIC HORNBY)
Will lives a useless, care-free life, until he meets Marcus.

The First Part Last
Johnson, Angela (YA JOHNSON)
Everyone says the best thing to do is give up his baby. So why does it feel like the worst thing?

Owl in Love
Kindl, Patrice (YA KINDL)
“Every night I perch on a tree branch outside his bedroom window and watch him sleep in his underwear.”

Pigs in Heaven
Kingsolver, Barbara (FIC KINGSOLVER)
Was adopting her daughter the wrong thing to do?

Blood and Chocolate
Klause, Annette Curtis (YA KLAUSE)
Could a meat-boy love her true self?

Where the Heart Is
Letts, Billie (FIC LETTS)
Pregnant & stranded, Novalee has only the kindness of strangers to rely on.

Daughter of the Forest
Marillier, Juliet (YA MARILLIER)
Sorcha can save her brothers only by enduring a terrible test.

Much Ado About Prom Night
McCants, William (YA MCCANTS)
“I melted like an Eskimo Pie on a summer dashboard.”

The Deep End of the Ocean
Mitchard, Jacqueline (FIC MITCHARD)
Everything unravels when Ben disappears.

Beloved
Morrison, Toni (FIC MORRISON)
A dead child. A runaway slave. A terrible secret.

Zel
Napoli, Donna Jo (YA NAPOLI)
Will she do the unspeakable to stop Zel’s true love?

Heart's Delight
Nilsson, Per (YA NILSSON)
“This is no gushy, sentimental happy teenage love story.”

Scribbler of Dreams
Pearson, Mary (YA PEARSON)
She was born to hate the boy she loves.

Luna
Peters, Julie Ann (YA PETERS)
“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn’t help it. She was my brother.”

My Sister's Keeper
Picoult, Jodi (YA PICOULT)
The only reason Anna was born? So she could donate her body parts to save her dying sister.

One True Thing
Quindlen, Anna (FIC QUINDLEN)
Ellen is forced to give up her life to take care of her dying mother.

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Rennison, Louise (YA RENNISON)
Georgia’s off to Hamburger-a-go-go land to find Masimo, the Italian-American Love God!

The Rapture of Canaan
Reynolds, Shari (FIC REYNOLDS)
Is their love divine or the work of Satan?

So Hard to Say
Sanchez, Alex (YA SANCHEZ)
Xio has plans to make the new guy her guy, but he can’t seem to take his eyes off his soccer buddy.

Stargirl
Spinelli, Jerry (YA SPINELLI)
“I imagined my life without her and without them, and I didn't like it either way.”

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
Staples, Suzanne Fisher (YA STAPLES)
Run away or marry a man she doesn’t love?

Rats Saw God
Thomas, Rob (YA THOMAS)
“Chicks, man, chicks!”

Cruise Control
Trueman, Terry (YA TRUEMAN)
“What a sadistic madman God must be to have thrown Shawn & me into the same family.”

Be More Chill
Vizzini, Ned (YA VIZZINI)
Jeremy knows cool. He’s not it. Until he takes a squib, a little supercomputer that tells him just what to do.

Jinx
Wild, Margaret (YA WILD)
“Do not ask me out. Do not love me. Be warned! I am Jinx.”

Hard Love
Wittlinger, Ellen (YA WITTLINGER)
Boy meets "rich spoiled lesbian private-school gifted-and-talented writer virgin" & falls in love.

If You Come Softly
Woodson, Jacqueline (YA WOODSON)
“Sometimes, there’s just plain love.”

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