#SIXSQUAREDCHALLENGE Recommendations

Yesterday I posted the information and link-up for my 2016 Six Squared Reading Challenge. Check out the full post and sign up HERE if you missed it.  Today, I’m sharing some of my recommendations for each of the six categories.

New Releases (Debuts): 

• Kill The Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
• This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Check out more in my TTT post: 2016 Debut Novels I’m Looking Forward To
  

Book to Movie Adaptations: 

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Start a Series: 

• Thunder Road series by Katie McGarry
• Magisterium series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
• A Darker Shade of Magic series by V.E. Schwab
• Throne of Glass series by  Sarah J. Maas
• Heather Wells series by Meg Cabot
• Newsflesh by Mira Grant
• Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy
• Find Me series by Romily Bernard

New Releases (Loved Authors): 

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
• A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
• Summer Days and Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins
• The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Goodreads Choice Awards Winners/Nominees:

• Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon (Nominee: Debut Author)
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (Winner: Non-Fiction)
• Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella (Nominee: YA Fiction)
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (Nominee: YA Fiction)
• Armada by Ernest Cline (Nominee: Science Fiction)
• A Work in Progress by Connor Franta (Winner: Memoir/Biography)
• Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky (Nominee: Graphic Novel/Comics)
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Nominee: YA Fiction)
• Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (Nominee: YA Fiction)
• Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (Winner: Humor)

More: 

• 2015 Winners | Nominees
• 2014 Winners | Nominees
• 2013 Winners | Nominees
  

Finish a Series:

I can’t give any recommendations here, because this category is dependent on which series you have already started, but here are some that I hope to finish in 2015.

• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
• The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
• The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (I either need to finally finish this, or give up on it entirely)
• Lux by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Are you going to be participating in the challenge? Any books you plan to read any of the categories? Do you have any recommendations?