Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

Everyone is compiling Best of list and giving out rewards during this time of the year. But what are you favorite YA reads of 2011? Did you discover great new authors/series/books? Please share. Let's celebrate the good YA books we have read this year!

I'll start.

My most favorite YA books of 2011 are:



These are my favorite reads from authors new to me:

from Australia:

from US: , and

And here are some more memorable books:



It's been a pretty good year.

Thanks Tatiana! I always think I've read so much this year, and then I look at your list and see lots of good stuff I seem to have missed. Thanks for some great ideas, this has been a good reading year but there's plenty more out there I guess!

I really really loved Divergent that book was soooo good!

Anna Dressed in Blood! Loved it, by far my favorite read of the year.

Here are some of my favourites from this year:

I didn't read a lot of YA this year, and what I did read I didn't love, with the exception of:

wow......how can I say what are my absolute best book of the year......I can tell you that I was simply blown away by A Monster Calls by Ness simply because it was so different from all the others.

#1 book of the year, no question:



Other 4-star favorites:

My favourites of this year (there's been quite a few):

My Favorite 2011 YA reads:


Favorite New to Me YA books:
and all things John Green

2011 Adult Favorites:


Favorite to look forward to: Arcs coming out in 2012

This was a good year for me. My favourite reads this year were

My favorite YA books that I read this year in no particular order:

I really enjoyed:

My Favorite 2011 YA reads:


My Enjoyable Fun 2011 YA reads:

My favorite books this year:

I have to agree. I loved the book Please ignore Vera Dietz! This was a fantastic book about LGBT issues. Very heartfelt!

I loved A Monster Calls and one that I thought was fantastic though not YA but could be was Rose in a Storm

My favorite this year was The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima

Here are some of my favorites:


That is just some of them! And I have definitely found a love for dystopia in 2011!

I read so many books this year that I loved so I will just name some of them.

Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Demon King
Grey Wolf Throne
The exiled queen
Divergent
Lost Hero
Son of Neptune
The knife of never letting go
The ask and the answer

This is my list so far for 2011

I've read a lot of books this year, it's hard to pick... but these were my fav's:



and of course I was happy for the return of and

My fav bks this year are:


. .

So far my favorite YA books that I read in 2011 are:



and these that are probably not YA books:

and

My favorites were
and

Books on the border of YA and adult fiction...
and

Few more late additions:

Some Favorites of Mine:
Hex Hall Demonglass Thirteen Days to Midnight Anna and the French Kiss
Some Girls Are Going Bovine Boy Meets Boy Hush

The best books I've read in 2011:

Read so many great books this year! Here are some of my fav's in no particular order:

This year....


Favorite YA reads:


Favorite non-YA reads:

Favorite YA reads of 2011:


I studied abroad in Australia which is why a lot of those are Australian authors/books.

Your selection of Australian books is very interesting. I was at one time involved with Magellan ebooks in Australia who is now closing that and working on opening his own publishing company. He told me straight out that Aussies did not read. That was very puzzling to me.
Also there is no Amazon in Australia.

Thanks, Maria Mitchell / Goodreads Author

Here's my Top 16 of 2011 http://foreverlostinbooks.blogspot.co...

Want to Go Private?

Want to Go Private? is by far the best (not easy to read, but best) YA I've read in a long time. This is a must read for anyone who is a teen, knows a teen or loves a teen.

Hands down the winner on my 2012 bookshelf.

definately 'the sky is everywhere' (it was just epic, in a league of it's own completely)
and then 'anna and the french kiss'

My favorite of 2011

My favorite books of 2011 (that I can remember):

Hmmm, favourite and most memorable books I've read last year?

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta
The Piper's Son - Melina Marchetta
Froi of the Exiles - Melina Marchetta
Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare

This year? I'd say so far Rachel Caine is rocking my world, as is Ilona Andrews. But I cna't wait to sink my teeth into the next Patricia Briggs novel.

Gosh I read so many amazing books but here are some of my absolute favorites:

I don't know. A lot of the books I read in 2011 don't really stand out, which means they must not have been all that great. However I do remember two that I really, really like. They are and

I really liked John Green's latestThe Fault in Our Stars. It isn't my favorite of his though--that would be An Abundance of Katherines and I also loved Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

I have really enjoyed Grave Mercy, Code Name Verity, and Days of Blood and Starlight.

So far (I'm reading my 59th book of the year). I reverse order that I've read them.
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Hi folks I need some help to find some good collections of contemporary short stories which could be used with a class( home group/ tutor group) - teacher reads students listen. Any suggestions welcome - for use with classes ages between 12 and 16. (Yrs 7,8,9,10,11 in UK). I can think of lots of novels but no short stories apart from Roald Dahl.

@ Julia and Kritika: Code Name Verity has been one of my favourites this year too, together with Maggot Moon and The Weight of Water. Oh and Cinder was fun.

I've read lots so far that are really amazing!