Sounisian's Top Favorite YA List - The Results
Hi!! :)
So, for those of you who are curious, here is the complete list of titles that Sounisians recommended. I've edited out the duplicates, triplicates, (and in one case, 28 extras - guess which one that was!! :) and added numbers to show how popular they were. Have fun perusing for your next book!! :)
A Matter of Magic & Malice: Mairelon the Magician / Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede 3
A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R. R. Martin
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) 2
Abhorsen Chronicles by Garth Nix 2
Among Others by Jo Walton
Anne of Green Gables series, L. M. Montgomery 2
Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart
Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud 4
Bayern Books by Shannon Hale 2
Beka Cooper books - Tamora Pierce
Betsy's Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Chaos Walking series, Patrick Ness
Chime by Franny Billingsley 2
Chrestomanci Chronicles by Diana Wynne Jones 7
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Michelle Paver
Claidi Journals by Tanith Lee
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 5
Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith 6
Curseworkers trilogy, by Holly Black
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Deltora Series - Emily Rodda
Demon's Lexicon Series
Dianna Wynne Jones, entire corpus
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Dragonback series--Timothy Zahn (YA sci fi set in a different part of the galaxy)
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
East by Edith Pattou
Echorium Sequence - Katherine Roberts
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 2
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede 2
Entwined by Heather Dixon
Faery Rebels Trilogy by RJ Anderson
Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell 2
Feed, MT Anderson
Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy and Being Bindi McKenzie by Jaclyn Moriaty
Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge
Graceling - Kristin Cashore 2
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling 4
Healing Wars Trilogy by Janice Hardy
Hermux Tantamoq books, Michael Hoeye
Heroes series by Moira J. Moore
Hexwood - Diana Wynne Jones
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 2
House of the Scorpion
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 9
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins 2
Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce (+1)
Incarceron series, by Catherine Fisher
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta 2
Keys to the Kingdom series Garth Nix
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
League of Peoples series by James Alan Gardner
Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron 3
Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Lion Hunters series by Elizabeth Wein 4
Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein 3
Lumatere Chronicles (Finnikin of the Rock, Froi of the Exiles) by Melina Marchetta 3
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Matt Cruse Series by Kenneth Oppel
Mind-Call - Wilanne Schneider Belden
Monster Blood Tattoo by D. M. Cornish
Narnian Chronicles - C S Lewis
New Policeman trilogy, Kate Thompson
Oracles of Delphi Keep series by Victoria Laurie
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope 4
Plain Kate, by Erin Bow
Poison Study - Maria Snyder
President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White
Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce (+1)
Prydain Chronicles series by Lloyd Alexander 2
Queen's Thief series (Of course!) Megan Whalen Turner 29!!
Riddle-Master trilogy, Patricia A. McKillip
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Secret Country trilogy, by Pamela Dean
Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede
Sevenwater Series by Juliet Marillier
Sharing Knife quartet by Lois McMaster Bujold
Sherlock Holmes series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2
Song for the Basilisk, by Patricia McKillip
Song of the Lioness quartet, by Tamora Pierce
Squire's Tales by Gerald Morris
Stravaganza series (Mary Hoffman)
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George.
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley 4
The Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 3
The Changeling Sea, by Patricia A. McKillip
The Diddakoi, Rumer Godden
The Homeward Bounders, Diana Wynne Jones
The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliff 2
The Last Apprentice Series Joseph Delaney
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
The Saga Of Grittel Sundotha - Ardath Mayhar--
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
The Selection Kiera Cass
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Truth Trap and sequels by Francis A. Miller
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett
Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden
Tortall books by Tamora Pierce (or if that doesn't count as a series, the Immortals quartet)
Tortall books OR Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Truth Series by Dawn Cook 2
Twelve Kingdoms series (Fuyumi Ono)
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Whew, that was long. There are 119 titles on that list, so have fun, and get reading!! :)
Thanks for looking,
~Bookworm
So, for those of you who are curious, here is the complete list of titles that Sounisians recommended. I've edited out the duplicates, triplicates, (and in one case, 28 extras - guess which one that was!! :) and added numbers to show how popular they were. Have fun perusing for your next book!! :)
A Matter of Magic & Malice: Mairelon the Magician / Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede 3
A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R. R. Martin
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) 2
Abhorsen Chronicles by Garth Nix 2
Among Others by Jo Walton
Anne of Green Gables series, L. M. Montgomery 2
Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart
Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud 4
Bayern Books by Shannon Hale 2
Beka Cooper books - Tamora Pierce
Betsy's Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Chaos Walking series, Patrick Ness
Chime by Franny Billingsley 2
Chrestomanci Chronicles by Diana Wynne Jones 7
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Michelle Paver
Claidi Journals by Tanith Lee
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 5
Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith 6
Curseworkers trilogy, by Holly Black
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Deltora Series - Emily Rodda
Demon's Lexicon Series
Dianna Wynne Jones, entire corpus
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Dragonback series--Timothy Zahn (YA sci fi set in a different part of the galaxy)
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
East by Edith Pattou
Echorium Sequence - Katherine Roberts
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 2
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede 2
Entwined by Heather Dixon
Faery Rebels Trilogy by RJ Anderson
Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell 2
Feed, MT Anderson
Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy and Being Bindi McKenzie by Jaclyn Moriaty
Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge
Graceling - Kristin Cashore 2
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling 4
Healing Wars Trilogy by Janice Hardy
Hermux Tantamoq books, Michael Hoeye
Heroes series by Moira J. Moore
Hexwood - Diana Wynne Jones
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 2
House of the Scorpion
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 9
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins 2
Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce (+1)
Incarceron series, by Catherine Fisher
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta 2
Keys to the Kingdom series Garth Nix
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
League of Peoples series by James Alan Gardner
Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron 3
Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Lion Hunters series by Elizabeth Wein 4
Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein 3
Lumatere Chronicles (Finnikin of the Rock, Froi of the Exiles) by Melina Marchetta 3
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Matt Cruse Series by Kenneth Oppel
Mind-Call - Wilanne Schneider Belden
Monster Blood Tattoo by D. M. Cornish
Narnian Chronicles - C S Lewis
New Policeman trilogy, Kate Thompson
Oracles of Delphi Keep series by Victoria Laurie
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope 4
Plain Kate, by Erin Bow
Poison Study - Maria Snyder
President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White
Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce (+1)
Prydain Chronicles series by Lloyd Alexander 2
Queen's Thief series (Of course!) Megan Whalen Turner 29!!
Riddle-Master trilogy, Patricia A. McKillip
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Secret Country trilogy, by Pamela Dean
Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede
Sevenwater Series by Juliet Marillier
Sharing Knife quartet by Lois McMaster Bujold
Sherlock Holmes series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2
Song for the Basilisk, by Patricia McKillip
Song of the Lioness quartet, by Tamora Pierce
Squire's Tales by Gerald Morris
Stravaganza series (Mary Hoffman)
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George.
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley 4
The Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 3
The Changeling Sea, by Patricia A. McKillip
The Diddakoi, Rumer Godden
The Homeward Bounders, Diana Wynne Jones
The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliff 2
The Last Apprentice Series Joseph Delaney
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
The Saga Of Grittel Sundotha - Ardath Mayhar--
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
The Selection Kiera Cass
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Truth Trap and sequels by Francis A. Miller
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett
Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden
Tortall books by Tamora Pierce (or if that doesn't count as a series, the Immortals quartet)
Tortall books OR Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Truth Series by Dawn Cook 2
Twelve Kingdoms series (Fuyumi Ono)
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Whew, that was long. There are 119 titles on that list, so have fun, and get reading!! :)
Thanks for looking,
~Bookworm