Ten + Four Great YA Books I've Read This Year (Because how do I cut four books from this list?)
Part 3 of my Blogoversary Week Posts
These are the YA books I gave five stars to during my first year of blogging, arranged alphabetically. Please note these are not necessarily books RELEASED in this time period, just books I happened to read for the first time during the past twelve months.
- Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Peña
- Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Simon is being all weird and won't participate in the collage. See, I still have more to learn!
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
- Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- The Truth Commission by Susan Juby
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, illustrated by Maira Kalman
And no, I cannot pick a favorite from that list. Made You Up has my favorite cover, for what that's worth.
After writing about diversity in books earlier this week, I notice that I have only three books by non-white authors on this list. On a more satisfying note, I also notice that six books feature major characters who are not white, five books feature mental or physical differences, and one has GLBQT themes.
Great list. I’m going to be reading Challenger Deep for a YA lit class sometime this year. I think I have a sample chapter from Boy 21 around here somewhere, but I haven’t read it because who has time for reading sample chapters? I’m hoping to read I’ll Meet You There this month because it’s been sitting on my TBR shelf since forever. Simon was one of my favorite books that I read last year. It’s such a sweet story.
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I've read a couple off of this list that I also enjoyed (Challenger Deep, I'll Meet You There, Made You Up, Simon). I still definitely want to read Every Last Word!
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