Comments on: Your Favorite Book of the Year?

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:28:02 +0000

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Every Day – David Levithan
Prisoner of Heaven – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Fault in our Stars – John Green
Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult & Samantha Van Leer

All Excellent!!!

By: Jody

Jody — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:10:16 +0000

Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

By: sue carita

sue carita — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:23:24 +0000

It’s hard to pin down a few top favorites for 2012! I couldn’t put down Long Lankin by Barraclough for it’s haunting sense of place (pun intended!). Seraphina by Hartman is another top notch teen-level favorite for its totally realized locale. After reading Kindred Souls by Laclachlan, I couldn’t stop singing its praises for ages. One Year In Coal Harbor by Horvath is another totally delightful read. Ask me my favorites in a month and there will be others. It was a pretty good year for kids’ books! Sue

By: Kathy Hudson

Kathy Hudson — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:19:21 +0000

It has to be COD NAME VERITY, and after that FAULT IN OUR STARS, and then LAST DRAGONSLAYER, RAVEN BOYS, and UNSPOKEN, not necessarily in that order.

By: Bobbie Pyron

Bobbie Pyron — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:14:47 +0000

Such a great year for books! I loved WONDER, by R.J. Palacio, KINDRED SOULS, by Patricia Maclachlan, THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, by K. Applegate, and DEVINE INTERVENTION, by Martha Brockenbrough!

By: Vicki Kouchnerkavich

Vicki Kouchnerkavich — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:24:41 +0000

For teens “172 hours on the Moon” by John Harstad, for tweens “The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate, and picture book “Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons” by Eric Litwin.

By: Sue Jackson

Sue Jackson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:55:41 +0000

For middle-grade books, I just finished Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt on audio and was blown away! In teen/YA books, I devoured Dead To You by Lisa McMann - a haunting novel about an abducted boy returned home 9 years later with no memory of his family. As for grown-up books, I LOVED Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (or was that a 2011 book?) and SJ Watson's Before I Go To Sleep. Sue Great Books for Kids and Teens Book By Book

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:14:29 +0000

Hands down, “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller. It hit all the things I want in a great story: fantasy, tragedy, war, and unfathomable love. It was achingly good. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried.

By: Mike Jung

Mike Jung — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:03:29 +0000

The Broken Lands by Kate Milford; This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers; The Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda; The Cabinet of Earths by Anne Nesbet; oh dude, there are a lot of books I liked this year…

By: Steven McLain

Steven McLain — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:15:47 +0000

I recently finished “Those Across the River,” and thoroughly loved it. I was heartened to find it, since so many of the books I read this year simply felt underwhelming. I’d heartily recommend it as a can’t-miss of 2012.