YALSA's 2011 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults

According to the YALSA website, here are 2011's top 10 best fiction books, for young adults. I have yet to seriously look into any of these titles - but so far, I'm intrigued by both Bamboo People and Last Night I Sang to the Monster, from what I've read on YALSA.

If any of you read any of the books on the list - please let me know...I'm always looking for a great YA read. 

For the complete list of 99 books selected, please see their website.

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2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

According to the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), here is the list of the top ten best books for Young Adults, in 2010. 

In addition to the 90 titles selected for the full list of Best Books for Young Adults, the 2010 committee has selected the following as the ten best books for young adults.

• Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009.

• Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. Penguin/Dial Books.  2009.

• Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea. Penguin/Viking.  2008.

• Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. 

• Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou. Random House / Knopf.  2009. 

• Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009.

• Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Random House / Wendy Lamb Books.  2009.

• Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books.  2009. 

• Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 2009.

• Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Lerner/Carolrhoda Books.  2009.

Have you read any of them?