Time for my annual Fave Fifteen book list. This list is created from the books I read this year (not when they were published). I did not do a very thorough job of recording all the books I read, in fact, I only wrote down 108, but I think I read more like 125 all the way through. This year, I was much more selective and probably started 30 books that I did not finish – reading as few as twenty pages and more than a hundred in some of them before quitting. The list is in a random order – well, actually, probably in the order I read them- and the criteria for making the list is simply “books that I enjoyed”. Some of them are light, others heavier, others in between. There’s literature, mysteries, light fiction…it’s all pretty much just whatever struck my fancy. So here goes:

Fave Fifteen YA & MG 2009

Braless in Wonderland – Debbie Reed Fischer

The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love – A.E. Cannon

The Musician’s Daughter – Susanne Dunlap

Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen

Sticks – Joan Bauer

Fortune’s Magic Farm – Suzanne Selfors

Audrey Wait! – Robin Benway

Dramarama – E. Lockhart

After – Amy Efaw

Cashing In – Susan Colback

Tango – The Tale of an Island Dog – Eileen Beha

Perfect You – Elizabeth Scott

The Nature of Jade – Deb Caletti

When You Reach Me* – Rebecca Stead

The Giant-Slayer – Iain Lawrence

Fave Five – Adult Fiction

After You – Julie Buxbaum

The Guernesy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

The School of Essential Ingredients – Erica Bauermeister

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon

Real Life & Liars – Kristina Riggle

And last but not least, from the ARCs I’ve been lucky enough to read – Future Five in 2010

The Secret Year – Jennifer R. Hubbard

The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams – Rhonda Hayter

Secret Saturdays – Torrey Maldonado

The Timekeeper’s Moon (a sequel to The Farwalker’s Quest) – Joni Sensel

Dirty Little Secrets – C. J. Omololu

*When You Reach Me is wonderful, but contains spoilers for A Wrinkle In Time, so if you haven’t read it, read that one first. I’ll refrain from ranting about how annoying I find that because it really is a great book.