It’s time
for Top Five Wednesday again! This is a weekly post that has a different topic
each Wednesday. This week, the topic is recommendations for your Hogwart’s
house! I’ve wanted to do something like this for all of the Hogwarts houses,
and I’m a proud Ravenclaw. This was a great opportunity for me to get started
with a series like this. Several people have done this before, but I’m not
quite sure who started the original idea, so I’ll just link Sam’s video (she’s
the host of Top Five Wednesday) in this post and you can go check out the other
videos she’s done for it. Let’s get into it! I’m super excited to start. If you
have any Ravenclaw recommendations, definitely let me know in the comments.
Strange the Dreamer by
Laini Taylor:
I just
started this book today, and I’m only five chapters in, but this is such a
Ravenclaw book. It follows a boy named Lazlo Strange who is obsessed with a
mysterious city that lost its name when he was a child. He’s a librarian in
this stunning world that Laini Taylor has created and he’s trying to track down
any evidence that it might have existed before by going through old receipts
and such. I think that he is Ravenclaw,
and I’m so excited to see more of his story progress.
The Infernal Devices trilogy
by Cassandra Clare:
Tessa is
such a smart main character. All of Cassandra Clare’s main characters are brave
and kind (except for maybe Jace), but Tessa lives in the library when she and
the rest of her Shadowhunter team aren’t out fighting demons. Even after
reading Lady Midnight, I think that
this is still my favorite of Cassandra Clare’s series, and Tessa just screams
Ravenclaw to me.
A Monster Calls by
Patrick Ness:
Also known
as the only book that has ever made me cry in my entire life. I love this story
so much. The main character is struggling with losing his mother to cancer. I
really need to reread this because I just lost my grandmother to Leukemia and I
think that this would hit home in so many different ways if I read it now when
I was older. A monster comes to him to tell him stories in order to cope with
having to lose his mother. It’s just so beautifully written I really need to
read this again.
Station Eleven by
Emily St. John Mendel
This book
is really interesting because it follows the apocalypse, but in a really
unconventional way. Essentially it follows a traveling symphony in the
aftermath of a disease that swept the globe. Station Eleven is told in the past and the present showing readers
how the main group of characters got to where they are, and continuing to
follow their journey throughout the rest of the novel. I thought that the tone
of this was just wonderfully quite and thoughtful. I think anyone who is
Ravenclaw would enjoy this, if only because of how unique it is.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated
Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making series by Catherine M. Valente:
September
lives in Omaha: until the Green Wind sweeps her away to Fairyland. This entire
book was so whimsical and fantastic. It really reads like a modern Alice in Wonderland. I think that the
way September deals with her entire situation for this book is really smart and
she has to use her wit more often than not to get out of certain scrapes in
order to get home. If you want a middle grade novel that’s really different,
check out this whole series.
And that, folks, concludes my top five recommendations for
people who are in the Ravenclaw house. What house are you in? Do you have any
other recommendations for people in Ravenclaw, or any other house? Let me know
in the comments!
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