My picks from YALSA’s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults

I know it’s a little late in the year to be posting about last year’s books but I’m gonna do it anyway!

I read several books on YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2012. Here are the ones I absolutely loved:

• The Diviners by Libba Bray
• Every Day by David Levithan
• Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

These books I also liked but didn’t quite blow me away like the first 3 did:

• Croak by Gina Damico (recommended to me by a teen)
• The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison
• The Fault in our Stars by John Green
• Chomp by Carl Hiaasen (listened to the audio read by James van der Beek)
• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

I started these books but never finished (usually because some other book was screaming “Read me NOW!):

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
• The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour (would like to try again with this one!)
• Boy21 by Matthew Quick
• The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman (currently reading)

Books on my MUST READ list:

• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
• The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
• The Brides of Rollock Island by Margo Lanagan
• I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Wish me luck in getting around to the rest of these books!