Top Ten Tuesday- Books I've Changed My Mind About

Top Ten Tuesday is a really cool original feature/weekly meme created over at The Broke and The Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten List that bloggers join in on answering... and today (May 24th) I'm one of them :)

Today's Topic

Top Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed

1.  Audrey Wait! by Robin Benway

• So when I read this book, I did like it, but I didn't think that much of it.  Now that I've read a lot more YA, I realize that fun books like this are SO needed to break up all the deep, dark books.  I definitely underrated this awesome book!

2.  Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

• When I first finished this book, I thought yeah I liked it, but I definitely liked Anna better.  Now that I've read all 3 books and have had time to reflect, I now want to change to a Lola girl.  Which is mostly because of Cricket.

3.  The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Cbosky

• I have to admit-- when I read this book I just didn't "get it".  The more time that passes, the more I've realized what an important book it really is.  Plus there's Patrick AND Pittsburgh, so how can I hate on this book?

4.  The Pact by Jodi Picoult

• I went through a Jodi Picoult phase for a while because I really really like her story telling.  BUT I think while reading them, I was thinking the whole time yeah these are good, but they're Adult Books.  I think I was being kind of a YA snob about it.  Now I know that The Pact is one of my all-time fave books.

5.  The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard

• The farther I get away from this book, the more I think about it.  I liked it when I read it, but only gave it 4 stars... but when I think about how it gave me the feel of a modern day Outsiders, I think that I should have rated it higher.

6.  Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

• This was the first Sarah Ockler book I ever read... little did I know I was going to absolutely LOVE everything this woman writes and she would become one of my auto-buy authors.  I liked this book when I read it, but the more Ockler I read, the more I come back to how much I loved this first book.

7.  Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles

• This should probably go into a "it's complicated" category.  I didn't love this book when I first read it.  It's about a teenage pregnancy, which is kind of one of my stay away from topics.  Also the way it was handled in the book was supremely frustrating.  I think because of that though it's never really left my mind.  I often find myself thinking about one of the characters in the book and thinking why were you so dumb??  It's weird, but because I think of it so much, I've gone on to read a lot by this author... and actually found a book of hers that I really really loved (Read Between the Lines)

8.  Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

• I thought I liked this book a lot when I read it.  I definitely felt like it was missing something, but I still thought I liked it.  BUT NOW???  Well, I've read other John Green books (*tear*) and other David Levithan books.... and I have to say Will Grayson, Will Grayson was the weakest of anything I've read.

9.  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (#1) by Ransom Riggs

• I thought the pictures were really cool and I thought that was enough to save the book for me.  As time passes I've realized that NO, I really don't like this book.  I know a lot of people do, and I want to be one of them... but I'm not :(

10.  Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

• I LOVE A.S. King.  LOVE.  So when I read this book, I knew I would love it.  And I did love PARTS of it (mostly the Passengers' parts).  Now when I think back on it, I think about all the characters that I hated in the book, and the way the town was SO dramatic and overly hateful... and I just don't think it was Ms. King's strongest book.

Which books have you changed your mind about over time??