I’m a real bookworm. You name the book, I probably have read it, and loved it. Which is why I was so excited to read in a recent article that teens are buying more books and reading more than ever in previous decades.

You hear so many people talking about how un-cultured our generation is, and how adults say young people our age watch too much TV and listen to too much bad/loud/unoriginal music on our iPods, and how we don’t care about literature. So isn’t it great when buying trends prove them wrong? Apparently teens have been buying 25% more books since 1999. It doesn’t shock me though: how many times have you been to the pool or the beach and seen girls reading books? Magazine reading is also really popular in our generation: I think that when teens develop the stamina to read a magazine cover-to-cover, it helps being able to read a really long book. Plus, with all the reading that teens do for school, I bet it becomes a hobby more than a task.

Read the article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/306531_teenlit08.html and tell us, what are some of your favorite books?

Plus, check out the first of my recommended reading lists (trust me, there will be many):

Books I Love:

Fiction

Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Twelve, by Nick McDonell
The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot

Non-fiction:

Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about their Search for Self, by Sara Shandler
Pledged: the Secret Lives of Sororities, by Alexandra Robbins
Deal with It: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL, by Esther Drill, Heather Mcdonald, and Rebecca Odes