What’s the best young adult book you’ve read this year? Share it in the comments and we’ll add it to our new literary mixtape of the Best YA Books of 2010.
This GalleyCat editor makes an annual mixtape (CD actually, but the idea is the same) collecting his favorite songs from the year–allowing his friends and family to sample some of the year’s best music.
We love reading “Best Books of …” lists, but we want to build a list focused exclusively on sample chapters. Using your suggestions, we will create a giant directory linking to sample pages from your favorite YA books from 2010–allowing readers to sample the books like a literary mixtape.
Share your favorite novel in the comment section. We’ve already created mixtapes for the Best Novels of 2010 and the Best eBooks of 2010. Cassette tape photo via Kevin.
GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Young Adult Books of 2010: A Literary Mixtape with Links to Free Book Excerpts
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Girl from Mars by Tamara Bach
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
We Could Be Brothers by Derrick Barne
You by Charles Benoit
The White Cat by Holly Black
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
The Girl Next Door by Selene Castrovilla
The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Matched by Ally Condie
The Gates by John Connolly
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne
Personal Demons by Lisa Dosrochers
Hope in Patience by Beth Fehlbaum
Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson
Teen Cyberbullying Investigated by Thomas A. Jacobs, J.D.
Please Ignore Vera Deitz by A.S. King
Denim Diaries by Darrien Lee
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Star in the Middle by Carol Larese Millward
Qualities of Light by Mary Carroll Moore
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Deception by Lee Nichols
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Firebrand by Gillian Philip
Greyhound by Steffan Piper
Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
Freefall by Mindi Scott
The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Marcello in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Leviathan by Scot Westerfeld
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
Food, Girls & Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak