My Life in…

Though I am six month behind in posting book reviews, I have been doing plenty of reading in the meantime. I read 115 books this year which is the most I’ve read since I started keeping track in 2006. I’ll come back and link to these reviews as I get them done. My criteria is basically which books, published in 2009, I liked the best. Honorable mentions are books I enjoyed though I had some issues with them, and are usually books I’m still thinking of months later.

Best Books of 2009
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
If I Stay by Gail Forman
King of the Screw Ups by K. L. Going
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Fire by Kristin Cashore
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor

Honorable Mention
Princess Forever by Meg Cabot
3 Willows by Ann Brashares
Pure by Terra Elan McVoy
What Would Emma Do? by Eileen Cook
Being Nikki by Meg Cabot
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart
Bait by Alex Sanchez
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnart
Pop by Gordon Korman
Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose