Best Books of 2011 - A Random Roundup

So here we are on the last day of 2011. HAPPY NEW YEAR! By now, there are lots of "Best Books of 2011" lists out there. I've posted links to a few of them below. See how many of the books you've read. Or pick up ideas for good books to read in 2012. Or better yet, submit reviews of your own favorites of 2011 for our Teen Reviews page. You can open the review form from the left-hand column of this blog page. THANK YOU for sharing your own favorites of 2011.

Publisher's Weekly Best Children's FICTION 2011

Here are the teen faves from the list ...

The Future of Us 
by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Chime 

by Franny Billingsley

Beauty Queens 
by Libba Bray

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Legend by Marie Lu

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Divergent by Veronica Roth
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Variant by Robison Wells

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

Publisher's Weekly Best Children's NON-FICTION 2011

Here are the teen faves from the list:

Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 

2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin

Amazon's Best Books of 2011: Young Adult

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Exposed by Kimberly Marcus

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard paul Evan


Kirkus Reviews - Best Teen Books of 2011 FICTION

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Anya's Ghost by Vera BrosgolAshfall by Mike Mullin
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
Brooklyn Burning by Steve Brezenoff
Bunheads by Sophie Flack

Chime by Franny Billingsley
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Dreamland Social Club by Tara Altebrando
Finding Somewhere by Joseph Monninger
                          The Fitzosbornes in Exile by Michelle Cooper
                          The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
I Am J by Cris Beam
If I Could Fly by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Island's End by Padma Venkatraman
The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
Mangaman by Barry Lyga
Misfit by Jon Skovron
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
                          Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
                          Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers by Lynn Weingarten
Stay With Me by Paul Griffin
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
This Thing Called the Future by J. L. Powers
Tighter by Adele Griffin
Tilt by Alan Cumyn
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez
White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Winter Town by Stephen Emond


Kirkus Reviews -Best Teen Books of 2011 NONFICTION
Black & White by Larry Dave Brimner
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
I. M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place and Purpose by Jill Rubalcaba








Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Books of 2011 
according to goodreads.com reader votes
Favorite Book - Divergent by Veronica Roth
Best Young Adult Fiction - Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction - Divergent by Veronica Roth