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2010

July
The Hard Kind of Promise, Gina Willner-Pardo (Clarion Books, 2010)
Leaving Gee's Bend, Irene Latham (Putnam, 2010)
Linger, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press, 2010)
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press, 2009)
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, 2010)
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend, Emily Horner (Dial, 2010)
The Mermaid's Mirror, L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin Books, 2010)
Found Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen Will Travel, Ruth McNally Barshaw (Bloomsbury USA, 2008)
Front Page Face Off, Jo Whittemore (Aladdin Mix, 2010)
The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion, 2010)
As If Being 12 3/​4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother is Running for President!, Donna Gephart (Delacorte Press, 2008)
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (audio), Louise Rennison (Harper Teen, 2001)
Draw the Dark, Ilsa J. Bick (Carolrhoda Lab, 2010)
Only the Good Spy Young, Ally Carter (Disney Hyperion, 2010)

June
Diary of A Hedge Fund Manager, Keith McCullough and Rich Blake (Wiley, 2010)
Writing Jane Austen, Elizabeth Ashton
Gimme a Call, Sarah Mlynowski (Delacorte Books, 2010)

May
Neil Armstrong is My Uncle & Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me, Nan Marino (Roaring Book Press, 2009)
The Mindful Investor: How a Calm Mind Can Bring You Inner Peace and Financial Security,
Maria Gonzalez and Graham Byron (Wiley, 2010)

April
Runaway, Meg Cabot (Scholastic, 2010)
Boy Meets Boy (audio), David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003)
The Unwritten Rule, Elizabeth Scott (Simon Pulse, 2010)
Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver (HarperTeen, 2010)
Living Life as a Thank You: The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude, Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons (Viva Editions, 2009)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green and David Levithan (Dutton, 2010)
Calamity Jack, Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illus. by Nathan Hale (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Flash Burnout, L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin, 2009)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan (Delacorte Press, 2009)

March
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., Kate Messner (Walker & Company, 2009)
Dirty Little Secrets, C.J. Omololu (Walker & Company, 2010)
A Curse Dark as Gold, Elizabeth C. Bunce (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008)
Numbers, Rachel Ward (Scholastic, 2010)
How to Say Goodbye in Robot, Natalie Standiford (Scholastic Press, 2009)
A Northern Light (audio), Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt Children's, 2003)

February
Stop Getting Ripped Off: Why Consumers Get Screwed, and How You Can Always Get a Fair Deal, Bob Sullivan (Ballantine, 2009)
Heist Society, Ally Carter (Hyperion, 2010)
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, 2009)
Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009)
Leviathan (audio), Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, 2009)
Rampant, Diana Peterfreund (HarperTeen, 2009)
Best Friends Forever (audio), Jennifer Weiner (Atria, 2009)

January
Bobby vs. Girls, Accidentally, Lisa Yee (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009)
The Espressologist, Kristina Springer (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Vintage, 2009)

2009

December
One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity, Debbie Macomber (Howard Books, 2009)
Alibi Junior High, Greg Logsted (Aladdin, 2009)
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, Julie Powell (Little, Brown and Company, 2009)
Crazy Beautiful, Lauren Baratz-Logsted (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009)
Once Was Lost, Sara Zarr (Little, Brown, 2009)
Story of A Girl, Sara Zarr (Little, Brown, 2007)
Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury USA, 2009)
Tracktown Summer, Elizabeth Holmes (Dutton, 2009)
13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher (Razorbill, 2007)

November
Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte, 2009)
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2009)
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008)
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Being Nikki, Meg Cabot (Point, 2009)
Bunco Babes Gone Wild, Maria Geraci (Berkley, 2009)
Bunco Babes Tell All, Maria Geraci (Berkley, 2009)

October
Blue Moon, Alyson Noel (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books, 2009)
Airhead (audio), Meg Cabot (Point, 2008)
Summer Reading, Hilma Wolitzer (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, Lizzie Skurnick (Avon, 2009)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: On Location, Jen Calonita (Poppy, 2007)
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Brenda Wineapple (Knopf, 2008)

September
Hell, Robert Olen Butler (Grove Press, 2009)
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Julie Powell (Little, Brown & Co., 2005)
Rosewater and Soda Bread, Marsha Mehran (Random House, 2008)
Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran (Random House, 2005)
Dead is the New Black, Marlene Perez (Harcourt, 2008)
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking, 2009)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life, Jen Calonita (Poppy, 2006)
The Sorta Sisters, Adrian Fogelin, (Peachtree, 2007)
The Real Question, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2006)
A Taste for Red, Lewis Harris (Clarion, 2009)
The Big Nothing, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2004)
Sister Spider Knows All, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2003)
My Brother's Hero, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2002)
The Four Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferris (Crown, 2007)
Anna Casey's Place in the World, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2001)

August
Crossing Jordan, Adrian Fogelin (Peachtree, 2000)
How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud Ken Fisher and Lara Hoffmans (Wiley, 2009)
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Lipstick Apology, Jennifer Jabaley (Razorbill, 2009)
The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead, 2008)
Blind Faith, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Loving Will Shakespeare, Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt, 2006)
Wide Awake, David Levithan (Knopf Books, 2006)
Better Than Yesterday, Robyn Schneider (Delacorte, 2007)
Feed, M.T. Anderson (Candlewick, 2002)
Tantalize, Cynthia Leitich-Smith (Candlewick, 2007)
Clay, David Almond (Delacorte, 2006)
Absolutely Maybe, Lisa Yee (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009)
Victory, Susan Cooper (Margaret K. McElderry, 2006)

July
Prada & Prejudice, Mandy Hubbard (Razorbill, 2009)
How to Tame a Modern Rogue, Diana Holquist (Forever, 2009)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk, 2009)
My Booky Wook, Russell Brand (Collins, 2009)
Violet in Private, Melissa Walker (Berkley JAM, 2008)
The Capitalist's Bible, Gretchen Morgenson (ed.) (Harper, 2009)
Paper Towns, John Green (Dutton Books, 2008)
His Lovely Wife, Elizabeth Dewberry (Harcourt, 2006)
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer, Lynne Cox (Knopf, 2004)
Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst (Random House, 2008)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (The Dial Press, 2008)
Doorstep Daddy, Shirley Jump (Harlequin, 2009)
Really Something, Shirley Jump (Zebra, 2007)
Wanted Man, Ellen Hartman (Harlequin, 2007)

June
The Actor and the Housewife, Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen (Viking, 2009)
Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies (Scribner, 2009)
A Complaint-Free World, Will Bowen (Doubleday, 2007)
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Ally Carter (Disney/​Hyperion, 2009)
Slob, Ellen Potter (Philomel, 2009)
Violet by Design, Melissa Walker (Berkley JAM, 2008)
Violet on the Runway, Melissa Walker (Berkley JAM, 2007)
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, John Wasik (Bloomberg, 2009)
If I Stay, Gayle Forman (Dutton Books, 2009)

May
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (Knopf, 2005)
Perfect Fifths, Megan McCafferty (2009)
The New Coffeehouse Investor, Bill Schultheis (Portfolio, 2009)
The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan (Miramax Books/​Hyperion, 2009)

April
13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson (HarperTempest, 2005)
Evermore, Alyson Noel (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009)
Castle, J. Robert Lennon (Greywolf Press, 2009)
Learning to Play Gin, Ally Carter (Berkley, 2006)
Cheating at Solitaire, Ally Carter (Berkley, 2005)
North of Beautiful, Justina Chen Headley (Little, Brown Young Readers)

March
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books, 2009)
Something, Maybe Elizabeth Scott (Simon Pulse, 2009)
I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Lisa Schroeder (Simon Pulse, 2008)
Canterwood Crest: Chasing Blue, Jessica Burkhart (Aladdin Mix, 2009)
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell (Scholastic Press, 2008)

February
Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Ally Carter (Hyperion, 2007)
I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You, Ally Carter (Hyperion, 2006)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (audio), Rick Riordan

January
I Was A Teenage Popsicle, Bev Katz Rosenbaum (Berkley Jam, 2006)
The Titan's Curse (audio), Rick Riordan
This Book Isn't Fat, It's Fabulous, Nina Beck (Point, 2008)
Canterwood Crest: Take the Reins, Jessica Burkhart (Aladdin Mix, 2009)
Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan (Miramax Books/​Hyperion, 2006)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
My Husband's Sweethearts, Bridget Asher
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
The Lightning Thief (audio), Rick Riordan
Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings, Megan McCafferty
Sloppy Firsts, Megan McCafferty

2008

December
Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
Mabel Makes the Grade, Anne Mazer (Scholastic)
Mabel Strikes a Chord, Anne Mazer (Scholastic)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
The Cay, Theodore Taylor
Water for Elephants (audio), Sara Gruen
Hungry for More, Diana Holquist
Teen Idol, Meg Cabot
Witch Child (audio), Celia Rees
Nim at Sea, Wendy Orr
Nim's Island, Wendy Orr

November
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Barry Lyga
Alice Waters & Chez Panisse, Thomas McNamee
Love Walked In, Maria De Los Santos
All I Did Was Ask, Terry Gross
Dinner Diaries: Raising Wheat Bread Kids in a White Bread World,

October
So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
Escape, Carolyn Jessup
Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility, Judith Martin
Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld

September
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Rapunzel's Revenge, Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Nathan Hale

August
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Morgenstern, David Oliver Relin
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, Brock Clarke
Queen of Babble Gets Hitched, Meg Cabot
Remember Me? (audio), Sophie Kinsella

July
Dramarama, E. Lockhart
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
Wit's End, Karen Fowler

June
Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
Audrey, Wait!, Robin Benway
The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary Pearson
Read My Lips, Teri Brown
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day, Meg Cabot
The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry
Split: A Memoir of Divorce, Suzanne Finnamore

May
The New Policeman, Kate Thompson
Home, Julie Andrews
Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
The Quality of Life Report,Meghan Daum
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

April
Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
Becoming Naomi Leon, Pam Munoz Ryan
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
Good Harbor, Anita Diamant
Persuasion, Jane Austen

March
Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
The Guy Not Taken, Jennifer Weiner
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The End of the Alphabet C.S. Richardson

February
Plenty, Alisa Smith & J.B. Mackinnon
Long May She Reign, Ellen Emerson White
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus (Public Affairs Books)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

January
Goodnight Nobody,(audio) Jennifer Weiner
Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks

2007

December
Not one book for the whole month, sadly enough...

November
The Not So Big Life, Sarah Susanka (Random House)
Good As Lily, Derek Kim (Minx)
The Snapper, Roddy Doyle (Penguin)
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle (Penguin)
The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's Press)
Queen of Babble in the Big City, Meg Cabot (HarperAudio)
Before I Die, Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)
Queen of Babble, Meg Cabot (HarperAudio)

October
Avalon High, Meg Cabot
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, Tanya Lee Stone (Wendy Lamb Books)
Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup (Little, Brown)
Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper (Simon Pulse)
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
Someone Like You, Sarah Dessen (Puffin)
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

September
Austenland (audio), Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA)
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

August
Clubbing Andi Watson, Josh Howard (Minx)
Re-Gifters, Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, Marc Hempel (Minx)
Keeping the Moon, Sarah Dessen (Speak)
King Dork, Frank Portman (Delacorte)
Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson (Delacorte)
The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California, Mary Hershey (RazorBill)
The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron (Atheneum)
Firegirl, Tony Abbott (Little, Brown)

July
Sister Magic: Violet Makes a Splash, Anne Mazer (Scholastic)
Sister Magic: The Trouble with Violet, Anne Mazer (Scholastic)

June
Graphic Novels, Paul Gravett (Collins Design, 2005)
Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz (Philomel Books, 2000)
Marly's Ghost, David Levithan (Dial Books, 2006)
Are We There Yet?, David Levithan (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

May
Defining Dulcie, Paul Acampora (Dial Books, 2006)
How to Be Popular, Meg Cabot (HarperTempest, 2006)
The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci (Minx, 2007)

April
Ethan, Suspended, Leslie Ehrenberg (Eerdmans, 2007)
Reaching for Sun, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (Bloomsbury, 2007)
The Rules of Survival, Nancy Werlin (Dial, 2006)
Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (TokyoPop, 2006)
Rhymes with Witches, Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books, 2005)
Geography Club, Brent Hartinger (Harper Tempest, 2003)
The Wedding Planner's Daughter, Coleen Murtagh Paratore (Aladdin, 2005)
Beige, Cecil Castellucci (Candlewick Press, 2007)
The Queen of Cool, Cecil Castellucci (Candlewick Press, 2006)
What Happened to Cass McBride, Gail Giles (Little, Brown, 2006)
Each Little Bird That Sings, Deborah Wiles (Harcourt, 2005)
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff (Wendy Lamb Books, 2004)
Toys Go Out, Emily Jenkins (Schwartz & Wade, 2006)
Dramacon, Svetlana Chmakova (TokyoPop, 2005)
Boy Proof, Cecil Castellucci (Candlewick Press, 2005)

February
Rubber Houses, Ellen Yeomans
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Anne Brashares
The Girl on the Milk Carton, Caroline Cooney
Whatever Happened to Janie?, Caroline Cooney
Letters to a Young Artist, Anna Deveare Smith
Just Listen, Sarah Dessen
Kiki Strike, Kirsten Miller
Pretty Bad, Shirley Jump

January
Cute is a Four-Letter Word, Stella Pevsner
Write Me If You Dare, Emily Rhoades Johnson
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Clementine, Sara Pennypacker
Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
Archer's Quest, Linda Sue Park

2006

December
The Other Wife, Shirley Jump
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Sugar & Spice: Twelve Days, Shirley Jump

November
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Penguin)
The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
Olive's Ocean, Kevin Henkes
Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink (Bantam, 2006)
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine


October
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Knopf, 2006)
Heart on My Sleeve, Ellen Wittlinger
Gracie's Girl, Ellen Wittlinger
Sandpiper, Ellen Wittlinger
Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon Pulse)
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Not Buying It, Judith Levine
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

September
The Mediator: Shadowland, Meg Cabot
Make Money, Not Excuses, Jean Chatzky
Pish Posh, Ellen Potter (Philomel)
Make Me a Match, Diana Holquist

August
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
Enna Burning, Shannon Hale
Grand & Humble, Brent Hartinger (HarperTeen, 2006)
Izzy, Willy Nilly, Cynthia Voight
Yours Truly, Skye O'Shea, Megan Shull
Skye's the Limit, Megan Shull

July
Fat Girl, Judith Moore
The Friend That Got Away, Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
47, Walter Mosley
Shakespeare's Secret, Elise Broach
Lunch Money, Andrew Clements
Prom, Laurie Halse Anderson
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
I Am the Messenger, Markus Zusak
All-American Girl, Meg Cabot
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

May
Looking For Alaska, John Green
Happyland, J. Robert Lennon

April
Cell, Stephen King
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

March
Inexcusable, Chris Lynch
White Jacket, Herman Melville
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

February
Skellig David Almond
The Fire Eaters David Almond
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli (Knopf)
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Judith Kerr
Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
Crown Me, Kathryn Lay

January
Amazing Grace, Megan Shull
The Guermantes Way, Proust
Tiger in the Well, Philip Pullman
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Anne Mazer
Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Lisa Yee
Project Mulberry, Linda Sue Park