- Cursor’s Fury - Jim Butcher
- Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski
- A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
- Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata
- Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
- Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
- Criss Cross - Lynne Rae Perkins
- Maus I - Art Spiegelman
- The Earth Giant - Melvin Burgess
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot
- The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
- Young Zorro: The Iron Brand - Jan Adkins
- Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
- A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
- Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
- Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler - Wade Rouse
- A Visit to William Blake’s Inn - Nancy Willard
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
- Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- The High King - Lloyd Alexander
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices - Paul Fleischman
- The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
- Prep- Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread - Kate DiCamillo
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- The Panama Hat Trail - Tom Miller
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32 - Joan W. Blos
- American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Bill Bryson
- A Handful of Herbs - Barbara Segall
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King
- Physik - Angie Sage
- MC Higgins, the Great - Virginia Hamilton
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Subterranean - James Rollins
- No Talking - Andrew Clements
- New Book of Herbs - Jekka McVicar
- The Doll in the Garden - Mary Downing Hahn
- The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac
- Warriors: Into the Wild - Erin Hunter
- Within Reach: My Everest Story - Mark Pfetzer
- A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women - Laurie R. King
- The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
- Crispin: At the Edge of the World - Avi
- Rules - Cynthia Lord
- The Lost Boy - Dave Pelzer
- Spud - John van de Ruit
- A Brother’s Journey - Richard Pelzer
- Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer
- Peony in Love - Lisa See
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party - MT Anderson
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village - Laura Amy Schlitz
- A Man Named Dave - Dave Pelzer
- Dairy Queen - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
- …and Now Miguel - Joseph Krumgold
- It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: and Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs - John O’Hurley
- The Torrents of Spring - Ernest Hemingway
- Sold - Patricia McCormick
- Barrrel Fever- David Sedaris
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Igraine the Brave - Cornelia Funke
- Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Sherman Alexie
- Cave of the Dark Wind - Dave Barry
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella
- Small Favor - Jim Butcher
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
- The Off Season - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
- Zorro Unmasked - Sandra Curtis
- A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King
- The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- P.S. Longer Letter Later - Paula Danziger & Ann M. Martin
- Shopaholic and Sister - Sophie Kinsella
- They Cage the Animals at Night - Jennings Michael Burch
- Snail Mail No More - Paula Danziger & Ann M. Martin
- Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
- Messenger - Lois Lowry
- Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
- Finding Manana - Mirta Ojito
- Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella
- Captain’s Fury - Jim Butcher
- Veil of Roses - Laura Fitzgerald
- The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
- When I Crossed No-Bob - Margaret McMullan
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
- The Young Merlin Trilogy - Jane Yolen
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Execution of Sherlock Holmes - Donald Thomas
- The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson
- The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
- Ticket to Ride - Larry Kane
- Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs
- Beyond the Deepwoods - Paul Stewart
- Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki
- How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale - Cressida Cowell
- The Moor - Laurie R. King
- The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson
- This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman
- Go Jump in the Pool! - Gordon Korman
- Beware the Fish! - Gordon Korman
- The War with Mr. Wizzle - Gordon Korman
- The Zucchini Warriors - Gordon Korman
- Something Fishy at Macdonald High - Gordon Korman
- Macdonald High Goes Hollywood - Gordon Korman
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- Steve and Me - Terri Irwin
- Purity of Blood - Arturo Perez-Reverte
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- O Jerusalem - Laurie R. King
- Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
- Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists - Gideon Defoe
- Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
- On Subbing - Dave Roche
- Peter and the Shadow Thieves - Dave Barry
- Maus II - Art Spiegelman
- A Shadow in Summer - Daniel Abraham
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
- New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
- Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
- Charlie Bone and the Beast - Jenny Nimmo
- The Complete 35mm Sourcebook - Michael Busselle
- The Hedge Knight - George R. R. Martin
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
- Justice Hall - Laurie R. King
- Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
- I’m Emma, I’m a Quint - Stella Pevsner
- The Au Pairs - Melissa de la Cruz
- The Luxe - Anna Godbersen
- 100 Cupboards - ND Wilson
- Spud- the Madness Continues - John van de Ruit
- Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer
- The Jellyfish Season - Mary Downing Hahn
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - High Lofting
- Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
- Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
- Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl - Susan McCorkindale
- Daphne’s Book - Mary Downing Hahn
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
- The Game - Laurie R. King
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- Following My Own Footsteps - Mary Downing Hahn
- Polgara the Sorceress - David and Leigh Eddings
- Princeps’ Fury - Jim Butcher
- Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
- Iceland: Land of the Sagas - David Roberts
Italicized books are rereads. it's quite difficult for me to pick my favorites, i read a lot of really good books this year. but i really loved the Twilight series, the new Eragon book (Brisingr), anything by Brandon Sanderson and Maus. also, i read a lot of Newbery winners, most were pretty good.