I wish I'd been more specific about some categories, and I wish I'd created more categories for graphic novels. Ha ha. Still, this isn't so great or bad, considering it's the end of the year.
As usual, new entries are in italics.
- 9 teen books with multicultural characters
~The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas
~The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
~Deep in the Heart of High School by Veronica Goldbach
~The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
~Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
~The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
~Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles - 9 teen award-winners (Category finished! 10.08.09)
~Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger
[YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
~Life Sucks by Jessica Abel
[YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
~Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston
[YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
~Luna by Julie Anne Peters
[National Book Award Finalist, 2004]
~Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle
[Sid Fleischman Humor Award, 2006]
~Sucks to be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) by Kimberly Pauley
[YALSA's 2009 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers]
~One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
[2005 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association]
~Teach Me by R.A. Nelson
[2006 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age]
~The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
[New York Times Notable Children's Book for 2008] - 9 graphic novels (Category finished! 05.01.09)
~The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
~Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci
~Skim by Mariko Tamaki
~Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
~Watchmen by Alan Moore
~Awkward and Definition by Ariel Schrag
~Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
~American Widow by Alissa Torres
~Blankets by Craig Thompson - 9 blogs & podcasts
~YALSA blog
~The YA YA YAs
~Stuff You Should Know podcast
~Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast
~Book Lust with Nancy Pearl podcast
~Sound of Young America podcast - 9 webcomics
~Unshelved
~Cyanide and Happiness
~Achewood - 9 Overdrive audiobooks
~Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
~Something Rotten by Alan M. Gratz
~The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
~True Story by Bill Maher
~A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt
~Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr - 9 picture books (Category finished! 04.08.09)
~Dad Runs Away with the Circus by Etgar Keret
~Chester by Melanie Watt
~Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
~A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
~Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
~The Cat's Tale by Doris Orgel
~When Randolph Turned Rotten by Charise Mericle Harper
~Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
~Wink! The Ninja who Wanted to be Noticed by J.C. Phillips - 9 non-fiction books
~Obama: The Historic Journey by The New York Times
~The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein
~Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle by Matthew Honan
~Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly by Jane Espenson
~The Big Skinny: How I Changed my Fattitude by Carol Lay
~The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman
~The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell - 9 titles I never thought I'd read
~The Coffee Trader by David Liss
~The Arrival by Shaun Tan
