I had the most fun in Las Vegas with the Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) committee — discussing books in an intellectually invigorating and extremely civilized fashion. Here’s the list of titles we delved quite deeply into:
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Alexander, Kwame Almond, David Anderson, Laurie Halse Armentrout, Jennifer Bedford, Martyn Blankman, Anne Brown, Jennifer Brown, Skila Burgess, Melvin Carleson, J.C. Colbert, Brandy Combs, Sarah Dellaira, Ava Fredericks, Mariah Giles, Lamar Green, Sally Han, Jenny Hattemer, Kate Herbach, Geoff Hubbard, Jenny Johnston, E.K. Kephart, Beth Kiely, Brendan LaCour, Nina Lockhart, E. Maciel, Amanda Oliver, Lauren Paige, Danielle Philbrick, Rodman Reinhardt, Dana Reynolds, Jason Rutkoski, Marie Shepherd, Megan Shinoda, Anna Smith, Andrew Smith, Jennifer E. Smith, Lindsay Strasser, Todd Taylor, Laini Templeman, McCormick Venkatraman, Padma Vlahos, Len Waller, Sharon Biggs Walton, Leslye Whaley, John Corey |
Crossover The True Tale of Monster Billy Dean The Impossible Knife of Memory Don’t Look Back: You Won’t Like What You Find Never Ending Prisoner of Night and Fog Torn Away Caminar The Hit The Tyrant’s Daughter Pointe Breakfast Served Anytime Love Letters to the Dead Season of the Witch Fake ID Half Bad To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders And We Stay The Story of Owen: Dragonslayer of Troneheim Going Over The Gospel of Winter Everything Leads to You We Were Liars Tease Panic Dorothy Must Die Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina We Are the Goldens When I Was the Greatest The Winner’s Curse Her Dark Curiosity Learning Not to Drown Grasshopper Jungle The Geography of You and Me Sekret No Place Dreams of Gods and Monsters The Glass Casket A Time to Dance The Scar Boys A Mad, Wicked Folly The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Noggin |
On Saturday afternoon, local teens came and gave their feedback. The ones that got the most support are:
Grasshopper Jungle, Tyrant’s Daughter, When I Was the Greatest, A Mad Wicked Folly, and Noggin.
About half of the titles on the list received more than 9 YES votes at the informal straw poll. As a collective, even when we have drastically different opinions, all well substantiated, we should be able to offer the world a solid slate of high quality BEST FICTION of 2014 (BFYA 2015) in early February!
Fairrosa Cyber Library 