I am currently reading Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin in honor of the new Alice in Wonderland movie, which I very much enjoyed. The book is a new fictionalized biography of Alice Liddell. Alice Liddell was the inspiration for the Alice of Wonderland, and the story tells of her relationship with Mr. Charles Dodgson, an Oxford Professor, aka. Lewis Carroll. Although the book is fiction, the author's note states that much of it is fact which makes it a little creepy as Charles Dodgson had an un-natural attachment to Alice and other young children.
I just finished reading By the Time You Read This I'll be Dead by Julie Anne Peters which was good, but now that i'm done I feel like I need a feel-good book. This story of a young girl who having been bullied all her young life for being fat, decides that taking her own life is the only way to stop the pain, is heartbreaking. However, her new friendship with Santana, a young boy battling cancer MAY alter her decision- the hardest part is that we'll never know. So, if you chose to believe, you can assume the positive and it becomes an uplifting story.
Presently on my bedside table- Neil Shusterman's Everwild and Incarceron by Catherine Fisher.