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Erin L. Schneider
Goodreads Giveaway: SUMMER OF SLOANE
Goodreads Giveaway: SUMMER OF SLOANE

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?

 

Need something good to read?

So I just finished reading The Forest of Hands and Teeth - and I'm almost finished with the second book in that series, The Dead-Tossed Waves - both by Carrie Ryan.  


Carrie has a very interesting imagination - and her writing is pretty incredible!  I flew through both books in just a couple of days.  


http://www.carrieryan.com/


If you're looking for something great to read - something post apocalyptic and with a few zombies thrown in - this series is for you!


FYI - according to Carrie's website:

NEWS!
THE DARK AND HOLLOW PLACES
3rd book in The Forest of Hands and Teeth series
Coming in Spring 2011 

Oh please let me find other great books to read, until then...

WSJ: Summer Books to Watch

Summer Books to Watch


The Wall Street Journal posted today, it's top picks for Summer books to watch.  


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258561780504010.html


The WSJ's "Big Reads" are:


Fiction
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender

 

A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Mr. Peanut
Adam Ross

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

In the Name of Honor
Richard North Patterson

What Is Left the Daughter
Howard Norman

The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodman

Star Island
Carl Hiaasen

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

I Curse the River of Time
Per Petterson

Turbulence
Giles Foden
Nonfiction
Hitch 22
Christopher Hitchens

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
James Tabor

How Did You Get This Number
Sloane Crosley

Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
Jonathan Weiner

Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
Jane Brox

Maybe you'll find something to enjoy this summer?  If so - please feel free to share here!  I'm always looking for a great read.

 

50 Iconic Writers Who Were Repeatedly Rejected

See?  Everyone starts somewhere.  I wonder what those that rejected any of the 50 included on this list, are doing now (aside from continuing to kick themselves).  J.K. Rowling?  Stephen King?  Dr. Seuss?

Wow.

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/05/17/50-iconic-writers-who-were-repeatedly-rejected/

Always helps to put things in perspective and to keep pushing forward...no matter what.