Trisha's favorites

If you’re looking for my top 10 YA novels as of 2010, head here. But FYI, I need to redo this list, because, gah, A Monster Calls is SO GOOD.

2011

• Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings – Sophia Bennett (my review)
• Sidekicks – Jack D. Ferraiolo (my review)
• The Shattering – Karen Healey (my review)
• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness, based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd (my review; interview with Patrick Ness)

2010

• Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi (my review)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope – William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (I haven’t listed adult books in the past, but this would be so great for teens and I loved it, so here it is; my review)
• The Ask and the Answer – Patrick Ness
• Deception (Haunting Emma #1) – Lee Nichols (my review)
• Some Girls Are – Courtney Summers (my review)

And the not-exactly-a-favorite-but-definitely-among-the-most-memorable book: Nothing by Janne Teller (my review)

2009

• Marcelo in the Real World – Francisco X. Stork (my review)
• Broken Soup - Jenny Valentine (my review)

2008

• Primavera – Mary Jane Beaufrand (my review)
• Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles (my review)
• My Most Excellent Year – Steve Kluger (my review)
• Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta (my review)
• The President’s Daughter, White House Autumn, and Long Live the Queen – Ellen Emerson White (my review)

Favorite YA books read in 2007

• The Poison Apples – Lily Archer (Gayle’s review, our interview)
• Boy Toy – Barry Lyga (my review)
• The Plain Janes – Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
• Carpe Diem – Autumn Cornwell (my review, Gayle’s review, my interview)
• Billie Standish Was Here – Nancy Crocker
• Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale (Gayle’s review)
• Another Kind of Cowboy – Susan Juby (my review)
• Guyaholic – Carolyn Mackler (our interview)
• Long May She Reign – Ellen Emerson White (my review)

Regarding Carpe Diem, at first I wasn’t sure if it was a favorite or not. I figured, if I had to think about it, it wasn’t a favorite. But a week later, I’m still thinking about the book, laughing about what happens to Vassar on the boat (if you’ve read the book, you know what I’m talking about), trying to figure out Hanks. And Bounmy! Love him. So here it is on my favorites list.

Since I only mentioned my favorite YA books of 2006 on the “About” page, here are my older favorites (alphabetical by author, since ranking them would be too hard):

• Hawksong – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• The China Garden – Liz Berry
• Tithe – Holly Black
• Weetzie Bat – Francesca Lia Block
• A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
• True Confessions of a Heartless Girl – Martha Brooks
• Princess in Love – Meg Cabot
• Honey, Baby, Sweetheart – Deb Caletti
• LoveSick – Jake Coburn
• A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly
• The Hollow Kingdom – Clare B. Dunkle
• Fairie-ality – David Ellwand, David Downton, and Eugenie Bird
• The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
• America – E. R. Frank
• The Seer and the Sword – Victoria Hanley (retro review)
• Damage – A. M. Jenkins
• Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
• Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
• Bloody Jack – L. A. Meyer
• Sabriel – Garth Nix
• The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner
• On Fortune’s Wheel – Cynthia Voigt (retro review)
• Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
• The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray – Chris Wooding
• If You Come Softly – Jacqueline Woodson
• Elsewhere – Gabrielle Zevin

The 2006 books, for the record (or if you’re too lazy to click on over to the About page):

• Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
• Fly on the Wall – E. Lockhart
• Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Terrier – Tamora Pierce
• Good Girls – Laura Ruby
• The King of Attolia – Megan Whalen Turner

last updated June 2011