2012 YA Books I've Read

As I have the past two years, I kept track of all the YA books I read in 2012. The list seems a bit shorter than usual this year, and I'm not sure if that's because I've been reading less, or because I'm forgetful and didn't record them all, or because I've read more non-YA this year. Regardless, here are my top 3 followed by the whole list.

Top 3 Favorite Books:
1. The Near Witch (Victoria Schwab)
2. The Scorpio Races (Maggie Stiefvater)
3. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)

Full List:

Jay Asher

--Thirteen Reasons Why

Rae Carson

--The Girl of Fire and Thorns [rec]

Kristin Cashore

--Bitterblue

Cassandra Clare

--City of Fallen Angels

--Clockwork Prince

Paul Dowswell

--Powder Monkey

Sarah Fine

--Sanctum

Alison Goodman

--Eon [rec]

--Eona

Janice Hardy

--Darkfall

Julie Kagawa

--The Iron Knight

Lauren Kate

--Fallen

Mike A. Lancaster

--Human.4

Tahereh Mafi

--Shatter Me [rec]

Nnedi Okorafor

--Akata Witch

Christopher Paolini

--Inheritance

Ransom Riggs

--Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children

Veronica Roth

--Insurgent

Patrice Sarath

--The Crow God's Girl [rec]

Victoria Schwab

--The Near Witch [rec]

Maggie Stiefvater

--The Scorpio Races [rec]

Francisco X. Stork

--Marcelo in the Real World [rec]

Rosemary Sutcliff

--The Eagle of the Ninth

Maria V. Snyder

--Fire Study

Laini Taylor

--Daughter of Smoke and Bone

2011 YA Books I've Read

In keeping with last year's tradition, I've put together some of my "Top 5" lists from this year. Here they are:

Top 5 Books to Make You Think:

5. How Not to Be Popular (Jennifer Ziegler) 

4. Hunger (Jackie Morse Kessler)

3. Hate List (Jennifer Brown)

2. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

1. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness)

Top 5 Books for Hard-to-Please Boys:

5. Across the Universe (Beth Revis)

4. Incarceron (Catherine Fisher)

3. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness)

2. Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card)

1. Ship Breaker (Paolo Bacigalupi)

Top 5 Fantasy:

5. The False Princess (Eilis O'Neal)

4. Magic Study (Maria V. Snyder)

3. The Iron Queen (Julie Kagawa)

2. Pegasus (Robin McKinley)

1. The Shifter (Janice Hardy)

Top 5 Science Fiction:

5. Divergent (Veronica Roth)

4. Across the Universe (Beth Revis)

3. Ship Breaker (Paolo Bacigalupi)

2. Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card)

1. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness)

Top 5 Favorite Books:

5. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

4. Pegasus (Robin McKinley)

3. The Shifter (Janice Hardy)

2. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness)

And the best book I read this year...

1. Divergent (Veronica Roth)

Full list of all the books I read (with links to recommendations):

Ann Aguirre

--Enclave

Paolo Bacigalupi

--Ship Breaker

Holly Black

--White Cat

Jennifer Brown

--Hate List [rec]

Meg Cabot

--Being Nikki

--Runaway

--How to Be Popular

--Abandon

Orson Scott Card

--Pathfinder

Aimee Carter

--The Goddess Test [rec]

Cassandra Clare

--City of Glass

--Clockwork Angel

Rosemary Clement-Moore

--Texas Gothic [rec]

Ally Condie

--Matched

Lauren DeStefano

--Wither

Sarah Beth Durst

--Enchanted Ivy [rec]

Catherine Fisher

--Incarceron [rec]

--Sapphique

Gayle Forman

--If I Stay

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

--Beautiful Creatures

Janice Hardy

--The Shifter [rec]

--Blue Fire

Diana Wynne Jones

--Cart and Cwidder

Julie Kagawa

--The Iron Daughter [The Iron King rec]

--The Iron Queen

Jackie Morse Kessler

--Hunger [rec]

Karen Mahoney

--The Iron Witch

Melissa Marr

--Darkest Mercy [Wicked Lovely rec]

Robin McKinley

--Beauty

--Pegasus

--Chalice

Lisa McMann

--Cryer's Cross

Patrick Ness

--The Knife of Never Letting Go [rec]

--The Ask and the Answer

--Monsters of Men

Lauren Oliver

--Delirium

Eilis O'Neal

--The False Princess [rec]

Erica O'Rourke

--Torn

Dia Reeves

--Bleeding Violet [rec]

Beth Revis

--Across the Universe

Rick Riordan

--The Red Pyramid

Veronica Roth

--Divergent [rec]

Inara Scott

--The Candidates

Maria V. Snyder

--Magic Study [Poison Study rec]

Jennifer Ziegler

--How Not to Be Popular [rec]

Markus Zusak

--The Book Thief [rec]

2009/2010 Top Books I've Read!

About a year and a half ago I started keeping track of the YA books I was reading. Here's the list of all the YA books I read in 2009/2010. My fifteen favorites are starred. If you're curious about any of these books, I'm happy to answer questions!

Top Picks by Category:

Top 5 Authors:

Diana Wynne Jones

Sharon Shinn

Scott Westerfeld

Meg Cabot

Rosemary Clement-Moore

Top 5 Books that Appeal to Boys:

Leviathan

Un Lun Dun

Percy Jackson

The Graveyard Book

The Hunger Games

Top 5 Books that Appeal to Girls:

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Teen Idol

The Splendor Falls

Summers at Castle Auburn

Wicked Lovely

Top 5 Classic Fantasy:

Poison Study

Graceling

The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Obernewtyn

Sabriel (Abhorsen Series)

Top 5 Supernatural Fantasy:

The Splendor Falls

Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely series)

The Iron King

City of Bones

Twilight

Top 6 Books to Make You Think:

Life of Pi

The Hunger Games

Elsewhere

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Life as We Knew It

Speak

Full List:

Laurie Halse Anderson

Prom

*Speak [rec]

MT Anderson

Feed

Dave Barry

Peter and the Starcatchers

Hilari Bell

The Prophecy

Ann Brashares

*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series

Herbie Brennan

Faerie Wars 1, 2 & 3

Meg Cabot

*Teen Idol [rec]

Jinx

Airhead

Pants on Fire
When Lightning Strikes

Isobelle Carmody

*Obernewtyn Series

Kristin Cashore

Graceling

Fire

Cassandra Clare

City of Bones, City of Ashes

Rosemary Clement-Moore

Prom Dates from Hell

Hell Week

*The Splendor Falls [rec]

Suzanne Collins

*The Hunger Games Series [rec] [Mockingjay rec]

Charles de Lint

The Blue Girl

Neil Gaiman

Coraline

The Graveyard Book

Michael Grant

Gone

Diana Wynne Jones

*Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, House of Many Ways [rec]

Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin

Deep Secret

Hexwood

The Game

Chrestomanci Series

Julia Kagawa

The Iron King [rec]

Julie Kenner

Good Ghoul's Guide to Getting Even, Good Ghouls Do

Mindy Klasky

The Glasswright Series

Phoebe Kitanidis

Whisper

Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely Series [rec]

Yann Martel

*Life of Pi [rec]

Robin McKinley

Spindle's End

The Hero and the Crown

The Blue Sword

Stephanie Meyer

Twilight Series

China Mieville

Un Lun Dun [rec]

Brandon Mull

Fablehaven 1 & 2

Garth Nix

Abhorsen Series [rec]

Christopher Paolini

Inheritance Series

Mary E. Pearson

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox [rec]

Susan Beth Pfeffer

*Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone [rec]

Tamora Pierce

Beka Cooper

Magic Steps

Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass

Rick Riordan

*Percy Jackson Series

Carrie Ryan

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Angie Sage

Septimus Heap Series

John Scalzi

Zoe's Tale

Sharon Shinn

*The Safe-Keeper's Secret, The Truth-Teller's Tale, The Dream-Maker's Magic

General Winston's Daughter

Summers at Castle Auburn [rec]

Maria V. Snyder

*Poison Study [rec]

Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver

Heather Tomlinson

Toads and Diamonds

Scott Westerfeld
*Uglies Series

Midnighters Series [rec]

Peeps, The Last Days

Leviathan

So Yesterday

Gabrielle Zevin

*Elsewhere [rec]