NaNoWriMo

It's only October 10th and I am so excited for National Novel Writing Month.
This is my first year, so I might end up being a total failure, but I'm willing to take the risk.
I've got an idea and a title, for once, so I went ahead and set up my account today! My username on the website is rainbowwaffles (as it is just about on any writing site..) so you can add me if you want :)
Unfortunately, these last couple of months have been pretty disappointing on the writing front. I had aimed to finish The Fame during the summer, but only ended up writing six and a half chapters out of the... twenty eight or so. I've kind of been re-reading all my old poems and laughing at them, writing about a sentence of The Fame and then putting it aside. The only thing that I've written in the last month that I've actually been proud of probably will never be shown to anyone, so...

And I really feel a need to rant about this for a moment... I am TIRED of predictable, cliche books. Really, really tired of them. I read ten pages of a book over the summer and predicted the ending. A day later, I finished the book, and I was right about every single point. That happened again with the next book I read.
Somebody, anybody, please give me suggestions for books to read that won't have me throwing them across the room (especially when they're not mine...) because I really need a break from the standard literature written for teenage girls these days.

Anybody else doing NaNoWriMo? Have you done it before?