Can you tell I’m on vacation? I’m posting all the time! So normally I post my Fave 15 after the new year just in case I end up reading something good at the last minute, but this year, I know how important it is for books to get an extra push in the holiday sales area, so I’m doing it early. Anything I really love in the next two weeks can go on next year’s list.
As always, these are not listed in any particular order and these are books I read this year, not necessarily published this year. There are a few changes to my list this year though. In addition to the Fave 15, I am including my Fave 5 Adult reads and 5 For 2009 – To Watch For.
I wanted to make a cool post with links and book jackets, but once I started, I realized it would take me the rest of the day. So here’s the deal. I’ve written about all of these books in Need To Read. All you have to do is go over to the search box and put in a title and it will take you to the post. I’m sure you understand that I have things to do…like watch MORE snow fall!!!
Fave 15 – MG & YA
Benny and Omar by Eoin Colfer
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt
Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
Louisiana’s Song & Jessie’s Mountain (two for one!) by Kerry Madden
The Year My Sister Got Lucky by Aimee Friedman
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti
The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks by E. Lockhart
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittinger
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Fave 5 – Adult pics
The Thing About Jane Spring by Sharon Krum
Austenland by Shannon Hale
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry
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5 to Watch For 2009
Fly Girl by Sherri L. Smith
Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies by Erin Dionne
Just One Wish by Janette Rallison
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
A wonderfully creative friend of mine, whose blog is always good reading, recently posted some book recommendations, including YA and kids. I’ve given her the address to your blog, and I think you’d like hers: http://claudiacarlson.blogspot.com/
Well I have read 1 of your YA picks and 3 of the adults so lots of great recommendations – thanks!
The best bad luck I ever had sounds good just from the title!
Thanks for including, Just One Wish! You have great literary taste!
Squee! Thank you, Joelle! this is wonderful. I’m so glad you liked MODELS!!