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| Guest Post by Author Kody Keplinger Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:17 AM PDT Today we are featuring a guest post from author Kody Keplinger. Kody's second book has just been released, Shut Out is awesome!
I am so excited to hear about Kody's current book picks, and what her library is like right now. I read more at twenty than I did even as a kid, and I am still reading the same genre – young adult. I love teens. I loved being a teen. And I love books about teens. And while my taste has changed some, that aspect hasn't. Not at all.  Right now, I'm reading a nice mix of subgenres. I'm loving contemporary (obviously!), but I also adore urban fantasy and dystopian. I think if you looked at my bookshelf you'd notice a trend – contemporary and fantasy YA plus a few random historical romances thrown in there for good measure. Hey, half the time the characters in those are teens or young adults! Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert - One of the best contemporary YA novels I've ever read. It's dark, edgy, and full of nineties music and other awesomeness. It just stole my heart from page one and I still tear up when I think about it. Divergent by Veronica Roth – This is a new dystopian that blew me away. I read it with my Mom, actually, and we both adored it. Mom even cried a few times. It's violent, intense, and action-packed. LOVE this book. So much. Bloodlines by Richelle Mead – This is the spinoff to my favorite urban fantasy series, Vampire Academy. It features my favorite fantasy character of, like, ever – Adrian!!! This was a great book I think I'll be rereading a few times before the sequel comes out. The Hathaways series by Lisa Kleypas – On top of YA, I also love historical romance, and this series about a quirky family in the 1800s had me laughing and crying at different points. Each book follows one of the siblings through a romance, but the rest of the family appears throughout. I loved them all so much I couldn't pick just one. PLEASE read these. The romances are wonderful, but the characters are what really make the books shine. And that's my current library! What is yours like? 
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