I'm sure I'm not the only one with a huge list of ''To Read."

What book has been your favorite so far?

I just finished Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon, wow what a book. It was excellent. It is her first book, she is a grad student at Columbio. Plot and characters masterfully written. Paranormal and mystery part very well done. One of the very best first novels by an author I have read.

Another favorite this year is Shadowspell by Jenna Black, love story and characters. It is book 2 in the seriers. Book 3 comes out next month.

Alice

I haven't read too much YA this year but mine would have to be Hunger Games, all three were great.   Second choice would be Cleopatra's Daughter.

Oooh, tough. I adored PINK by Lili Wilkinson. It's an unbelievable combination of smart, funny, touching, and groundbreaking. John Green blurbed it! Also loved CHIME by Franny Billingsley (although it took me a long time to get into it, I admit--it's all worth it though!) and I'LL BE THERE by Holly Goldberg Sloan, which is a kind of magical contemporary told from multiple POVs. 

I would have to say Devil's Kiss.  But I also really enjoyed The Demon Trapper's Daughter and The Hunger Games.

 After "Hunger Games" YA

I really liked "Toward the Gleam" by T.M. Doran   [978-1586176334]  (KEEPER, tho'), but ISBN-13 "if" interested to look it up/ 

and then, "The Oracle of Stamboul" by Michael David Lukas  (KEEPER, also'), still: [978-0062012098] if you are interested in looking it up/.

Those are the best 3 books I've read this year.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins but others that were outstanding for me are:  Out of Dust by Karen Hesse (yes, it's a poetry book but oh, so good),  I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and Dracula in Love by Karen Essex.

Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son, and Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

(Yes, I've been on an Australian author kick this year!)