Each year I try to tally up the books I've read during the course of the year, just to keep track and share with anyone who's interested. This year was a hard year for me personally, and as you can see by my extensive list, I must have felt the need to lose myself a little in books.
These are listed pretty much in the order I read them. Believe it or not, I am not a fast reader. I usually try to whittle down to my top ten or so, but this year I'm having such a difficult time with it! There were SO MANY GOOD BOOKS. I hope to be back in the next day or two with some favorites, though probably more than ten.
A couple of these I have listed twice because, well, I read them twice this year. And at the time of writing this, there are still three books near the end I haven't finished, but I'm close enough to list them.
The List! Are any of your favorites on here? If not, what are some of your favorite books you read this year?
Title Author
1. The Freak Observer Blythe Woolston
2. The Education of Hailey Kendrick Eileen Cook
3. Dirty Little Secrets C.J. Omololu
4. The Lighter Side of Life and Death C.K. Kelly Martin
5. Twenty Boy Summer Sarah Ockler
6. Extraordinary Nancy Werlin
7. Party Tom Leveen
8. Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
9. Savvy Ingrid Law
10. Freaksville Kitty Keswick
11. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl Barry Lyga
12. Personal Demons Lisa Desrochers
13. Guyaholic Carolyn Mackler
14. Revolution Jennifer Donnelly
15. Scumble Ingrid Law
16. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Stephenie Meyer
17. Vegan, Virgin, Valentine Carolyn Mackler
18. That Summer Sarah Dessen
19. Good Girls Laura Ruby
20. Beautiful Amy Reed
21. Scarlett Fever Maureen Johnson
22. Days of Little Texas R.A. Nelson
23. Fall for Anything Courtney Summers
24. Matched Ally Condie
25. Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves
26. Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard
27. Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
28. Sorta Like a Rock Star Matthew Quick
29. The Secret Year Jennifer R. Hubbard
30. Girl, Stolen April Henry
31. Invincible Summer Hannah Moskowitz
32. A Girl Named Mister Nikki Grimes
33. The Dark and Hollow Places Carrie Ryan
34. I Know It's Over C.K. Kelly Martin
35. Across the Universe Beth Revis
36. Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
37. Please Ignore Vera Dietz A.S. King
38. The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June Robin Benway
39. Angel's Choice Lauren Baratz-Logsted
40. Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer John Grisham
41. Between Here and Forever Elizabeth Scott
42. The Summer of Firsts and Lasts Terra Elan McVoy
43. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks E. Lockhart
44. Where She Went Gayle Forman
45. Chasing Brooklyn Lisa Schroeder
46. Will Grayson, Will Grayson John Green
47. Pretty Things Sarra Manning
48. Crank Ellen Hopkins
49. Swoon Nina Malkin
50. Restoring Harmony Joelle Anthony
51. Five Flavors of Dumb Antony John
52. Imaginary Girls Nova Ren Suma
53. Drawing Conclusions Donna Leon
54. Inconvenient Margie Gelbwasser
55. Her and Me and You Lauren Strasnick
56. Divergent Veronica Roth
57. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour Morgan Matson
58. What Happened to Goodbye Sarah Dessen
59. Fixing Delilah Sarah Ockler
60. Save the Cat! Blake Snyder
61. Jumping Off Swings Jo Knowles
62. I'm Not Her Janet Gurtler
63. Take Me There Carolee Dean
64. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor Lucy Christopher
65. Ballads of Suburbia Stephanie Kuehnert
66. Hold Still Nina LaCour
67. Down River John Hart
68. You Are Not Here Samantha Schutz
69. If I Tell Janet Gurtler
70. Cryer's Cross Lisa McMann
71. Bumped Megan McCafferty
72. Perfect Ellen Hopkins
73. Like Mandarin Kirsten Hubbard
74. Moonglass Jessi Kirby
75. Lola and the Boy Next Door Stephanie Perkins
76. The Replacement Brenna Yovanoff
77. Burned Ellen Hopkins
78. How to Save a Life Sara Zarr
79. Virtuosity Jessica Martinez
80. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery
81. Illusions Aprilynne Pike
82. Don't Breathe a Word Holly Cupala
83. Impulse Ellen Hopkins
84. Unraveling Isobel Eileen Cook
85. Amplified Tara Kelly
86. Saving June Hannah Harrington
87. Clean Amy Reed
88. Past Perfect Leila Sales
89. Anna and the French Kiss Stephanie Perkins
90. Pieces of Us Margie Gelbwasser
91. A Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick
92. So Much Closer Susane Colasanti
93. Invincible Summer Hannah Moskowitz
94. Wanderlove Kirsten Hubbard
95. Tricks Ellen Hopkins
96. The Broken Thing Peter Swift
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Twenty Boy Summer was awesome, and Frank Landau-Banks is one of my favourites. Same with Where She Went and Amy & Roger. Love Janet Gurtler, Stephanie Perkins, and Leila Sales as well. And Wanderlove!! I can't wait for it to come out. The galley I read was AMAZING.
ReplyDeleteLots of good books this year!! =)
I'm running mine on Friday. I think we've got a few in common (Across the Universe and Matched for this year; Anne of Green Gables, Mockingjay, Where the Red Fern Grows, Anna and the French Kiss, and Dirty Little Secrets from other years).
ReplyDeleteOne thing I noticed with my own reading this year (something I want to remedy) was a huge lack of adult titles. I love me some MG and YA, but without adult fiction added to the mix, I feel off balance, like I'm not getting a varied diet somehow.
Something that surprised me about my list was the higher-than -normal number of non-fiction titles I read -- some were for research, some were for craft, but a number were just because they piqued my interest.
Happy New Year, Ashley and Caroline! Great to hear from you both! And, yeah, all those you listed are such GREAT books.
ReplyDeleteI got a few adult titles in this year, but I admit, I just don't enjoy them as much as my YA. Also, I've read several craft books, but since I usually just read a chapter here and there when it applies, I didn't list those. The only one I read cover to cover was SAVE THE CAT, which of course was Ah-mazing.
Hope you're both having a great holiday!
Lots of yours are also on my list, though I think I'll only make it to 85. I kept a list on my blog which was a fun way to do it. Next year, one of my resolutions is to read at least half 2011/12 releases.
ReplyDeleteI read only 2 adult books this year (well, besides craft books) - Ape House and The Help.
Great list! Looking forward to your favourites post. HOW TO SAVE A LIFE and IMAGINARY GIRLS are both among my faves of 2011. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to give you some numbers of favorites here, D. (2, 2, 21, 30, 43, 44, 50, 61, 64, 66, 74 & 79). Not that I read these all in 2011, but they are books that would make my top 100 of all time.
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