Monday, January 28, 2013

Rachel Swirsky's YA & MG Novel Recommendations 2012, Distilled

This is the distilled list of my young adult and middle grade novel recommendations from 2012, for people who just want to see titles for reference.

PROBABLY ON MY BALLOT:

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman


POSSIBLY ON MY BALLOT:

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
Every Day by David Levithan
The Broken Lands by Kate Milford
A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix

OTHER BOOKS I HAPPILY RECOMMEND:
(a partial list)

Dark Companion by Maria Acosta
Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
Radiant Days by Elizabeth Hand
And All the Stars by Andrea Host
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Cinder by Melissa Meyer
Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

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