Sounisian YA Favorites List
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queensthiefHi everybody!! J
So, so, so, since NPR is doing a top YA favorites list, Ms. Turner suggested that we have our own Sounis’ top YA favorites list. So here is a post to list those favorite YA books.
I will tally up all the titles, and post what books got the most votes.
CLOSED The Deadline is Wednesday, July 4th. CLOSED
I will comment on the bottom to say that any other additions will not be counted.
I do ask that we conduct this within a couple of guidelines to make it easier to do up a tally when we are done.
1. Please do not use numbers in the list. Just start each line with a title. And please have a blank line above and below your list.
2. Please do not include “the” at the beginning of a series name. (If it is the book title, that’s fine.) So “The Farsala Trilogy” is just “Farsala Trilogy.” “The Giver” is fine. It will make it easier to count up later.
3. For our purposes, YA includes any book that you think a 12-18 year old would enjoy/is targeted toward that audience. I will trust your judgment, and will not kick any titles off the list (unless someone puts “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss!! J
4. Don’t forget to put authors, so we all can look them up, and enjoy them, too.
5. Please limit yourself to 5 choices (I know, I know, I’m so mean!!) J
Books/series will get one vote for every recommendation. For reasons of sanity, I can’t count them under “I 2nd the recommendation” comments. Please include them in your own list.
So have fun, and let’s have a great big Sounis rec party!! (You get extra cookies if you share your criteria in your post, and maybe we can convince Elle to bring over the oreo truffle from Chatzy!
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Date: 6/22/12 04:13 pm (UTC)Curseworkers trilogy, by Holly Black
The Changeling Sea, by Patricia A. McKillip
The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliff
Secret Country trilogy, by Pamela Dean
Song of the Lioness quartet, by Tamora Pierce
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Date: 6/22/12 06:44 pm (UTC)Truth Series by Dawn Cook
Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron
So, the criteria for me was,well...Let's just say these are my five favorite series of all time. Out of all the YA I have read(or books that would appeal to 12-18 years olds) These are the best I've found. I know that means my vote is a little skewed, but I can only vote based on my experience. And I really love these books! So where are my cookies??
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Date: 6/23/12 11:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 07:04 pm (UTC)Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Deep Secret (YA or adult version; the difference is a few curse words and two sexual allusions) by Diana Wynne Jones
Dark is Rising quintet by Susan Cooper
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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Date: 6/24/12 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 07:39 pm (UTC)Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White
Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
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Date: 6/22/12 09:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 07:51 pm (UTC)Incarceron series, by Catherine Fisher
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth E. Wein
Plain Kate, by Erin Bow
Riddle-Master trilogy, Patricia A. McKillip
SO HARD TO DO JUST FIVE CHOICES. SO HARD. SO CRUEL.
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Date: 6/22/12 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 08:08 pm (UTC)Books of Bayern Series by Shannon Hale
Howl's Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones, but everyone here knows that already
Abhorsen Chronicles by Garth Nix
Entwined by Heather Dixon
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George.
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Date: 6/22/12 09:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 09:06 pm (UTC)Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Monster Blood Tattoo by D. M. Cornish
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Matt Cruse Series by Kenneth Oppel
I chose these because they are my favourite series of all-time (minus the Queen's Thief which I left off only because everyone here has read them and I wanted to try to list series that others might not have read. Otherwise it would be on here for sure). I've read every series here multiple times and loved them even more with each reading.
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Date: 6/22/12 09:13 pm (UTC)ETA: I am still waiting for somebody to write epic Sebastipole/Europe fanfic, though. I fear I may be waiting a while.
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Date: 6/22/12 09:29 pm (UTC)Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
It is really hard to only pick five. I'm assuming The Queen's Thief and Harry Potter are both sort of a given, and hence don't need to be said.
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Date: 6/22/12 10:05 pm (UTC)I had to think hard to decide between the Immortals and Protector of the Small.
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Date: 6/22/12 09:30 pm (UTC)Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Magic & Malice: Mairelon the Magician / Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede
Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett
East by Edith Pattou
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
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Date: 6/23/12 12:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 09:58 pm (UTC)Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy and Being Bindi McKenzie by Jaclyn Moriaty (does this series have a title?)
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
Tortall books by Tamora Pierce (or if that doesn't count as a series, the Immortals quartet)
Sharing Knife quartet by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tales of Chrestomanci by DWJ
I debated a while about Harry Potter, but I feel like it's such an obvious one that tops practically every list...
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Date: 6/22/12 10:01 pm (UTC)My criteria are books that either I loved as a teenager and reread over and over, or books I found recently (within the last six months) and have either already reread or am planning to reread. And I'd still count myself as in the YA age range, so.
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Date: 6/22/12 10:30 pm (UTC)Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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Date: 6/24/12 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6/22/12 10:33 pm (UTC)Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Feed, MT Anderson
Perilous Gard, Pope
Howl's Moving Castle
and . . .
I'm going to save my fifth one because I know that as soon as I finish this list I am going to think of another one that is even better and hate myself.
Also, unlike PigRescuer, I don't care if I don't list my books!
~mwt
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Date: 6/22/12 10:36 pm (UTC)Yep-pretty much what I did.
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Date: 6/22/12 10:38 pm (UTC)Queen's Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner
Bayern Books by Shannon Hale
A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede
Faery Rebels Trilogy by RJ Anderson
Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron
How many is that? 6 + 4 + 2 + 3 + 5 = 20! Yay, not bad!
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Date: 6/23/12 11:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 10:52 pm (UTC)Graceling series by Kristin Cashore
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Book Thief by Markus Zadusak
Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
I'm a bit giddy at how many people picked CNV already.
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Date: 6/23/12 04:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/22/12 11:57 pm (UTC)Echorium Sequence - Katherine Roberts
Deltora Series - Emily Rodda
Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce
Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix
If Eoin Colfer had stopped at book 3, Artemis Fowl would probably be on this list as well. Books I love that aren't eligible: Temeraire series (Naomi Novik), and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke).
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Date: 6/23/12 02:46 am (UTC)Queens Thief series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
Elizabeth Weins Arthurian novels--not sure if the series has an official name? *fail*
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope (and I really wish I could include The Perilous Gard as its by the same author.... aaagh)
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Aagh so hard to decide. There are some titles I'm thinking of (like To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Curse of Chalion) which are shelved in Adult in my bookstore/library so I'm not sure they fit on a YA list... but the lines between YA and adult isn't clear anyway. I just know where they were placed by the publishers/librarians/booksellers. Which doesn't mean much. I think my YA class made me somehow super aware of this, whereas before it was all the same to me, good books are good books. I think I'll get over it eventually :-).
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Date: 6/23/12 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/23/12 04:54 am (UTC)Bartimaeus Trilogy Jonathan Stroud
Keys to the Kingdom series Garth Nix
The Selection Kiera Cass
The Last Apprentice Series Joseph Delaney
So far these are the books I can think of! I am always looking for good books to read, so this is a good post!
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Date: 6/23/12 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6/23/12 05:02 am (UTC)Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
subject to change at any point! assuming MWT's books are all included, of course. I didn't include "The Book Thief" because I don't see why it's classified as YA. Death has no age, dang it! On the short list also are Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore, David Levithan's "Love is the Higher Law", and the "Thief Errant" series by Elizabeth C. Bunce. I'm in a stand-alone loving moment, which is why there are three on the list. And to think, I never read anything remotely fantasy until 3 years ago! Oh, and Peterfreund's killer unicorns make me really happy . . . if I don't stop now, I'll never stop!
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Date: 6/23/12 04:49 pm (UTC)... Killer unicorns? Do tell.
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Date: 6/23/12 04:11 pm (UTC)The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede
The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein
Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart
Ah! It's killing me not to add another three or four on there.
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Date: 6/23/12 04:32 pm (UTC)I TOLD you it was that good.
Also the Chronicles of Chrestomanci. I forgot when you read those. *fail*
That is all.
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Date: 6/23/12 08:42 pm (UTC)Lord of the Rings trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope
Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Limiting myself to 5 was an incredibly painful process. I wanted to include The Eagle of the Ninth by Sutcliff because I LOVE THAT BOOK SO VERY MUCH but I'm not sure it's strictly YA, or that it would appeal to the largest YA audience...
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Date: 6/23/12 10:20 pm (UTC)Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
A Matter of Magic series (Mairelon the Magician & Magician's Ward) by Patricia C Wrede
Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Oracles of Delphi Keep series by Victoria Laurie
It's so hard to limit myself to five.
Mara from Mara, Daughter of the Nile is a bit similar to Eugenides (cunning, manipulative, street urchin attitude).
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Date: 6/26/12 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 6/23/12 11:50 pm (UTC)Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell
Healing Wars Trilogy by Janice Hardy
Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Truth Series by Dawn Cook
My criteria is: I like them. They have good stories and memorable characters. These are the ones I reach for over and over again. It was hard to stick to 5.
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Date: 6/24/12 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6/24/12 06:33 am (UTC)Okay so you guys are AWESOME! I've also put this up on twitter, so hopefully we got some extra buzz!
My top five most of them are series-so I guess two three novels take up each place also I might change my mind as I am currently reading the Hunger Games-and I have Jellicoe Road on my shelf to read
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Queen's Thief Series (!!-yeah I got excited writing that-I think it's the truffles)
Harry Potter Series
Demon's Lexicon Series
House of the Scorpion
Finnikin of the Rock (The series-I'm not sure what it's called)
Criteria: I don't get much time to read, so if I've read a book-and read parts of it again then it's definitely a winner. Everything from believable character to an surprisng plot pull me into a book and in the end that's what keeps me reading/hooked)
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Date: 6/26/12 10:07 pm (UTC)