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Here's my list of the top 15 reads for 2010, broken up into age-range categories this year, mostly because I decided it's unfair to compare books for middle graders like Boyce's Cosmic with adult door-stoppers like Cronin's The Passage. I'm including super short, quick and dirty comments on each about why they top my list, unless I have a review ( Read more... )

Upcoming over this weekend are my Top 5 books in children's, young adult, and adult books, as well as Top 5 lists in TV, movies, music, and so on. I have great fun making lists, so we'll see what I come up with. Also upcoming is my typical end-of-year book review avalanche, in which I attempt to write short-to-medium reviews of all the books I've ( Read more... )

**102. Choker, by Elizabeth Woods. YA Mystery/Thriller. 3.5 stars. 240 pages. Read ARC.

**103. Drought, by Pam Bachorz. YA Dystopia. 3 stars. 400 pages. Read ARC.

104. Zombies vs. Unicorns, ed. by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier. YA Short stories/Spec fic. 415 pages. 4 stars. Review here.

105. The Curse of the Wendigo (Monstrumologist, Book Two), ( Read more... )

As always, my to-read list is in the 700s on Goodreads, but here are some that I'm most looking forward to in 2011, the ones I will drop everything to read (assuming I don't have deadlines on my professional reading, which will be picking up thanks to the Morris Award committee around February). They're not quite in order of SQUEE!ment, but close ( Read more... )

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91. White Cat (Curseworkers, Book One), by Holly Black. YA Paranormal. 310 pages. 5 stars. Review here.

92. The Dark Deeps (Hunchback Assignments, Book Two), by Arthur Slade. YA Steampunk. 320 pages. 4 stars. Review here.

**93. Fly Away, by Nora Rock. YA Fiction. Orca Sports series. 192 pages. 2 stars.

94. I Shall Wear Midnight (Tiffany Aching, Book ( Read more... )

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