Jun 14, 2007 13:52
To start off with, I can at least jot down the YA reads I've done this year so far:
Hitler's Canary - Sandi Toksvig
The Snakestone - Berlie Doherty
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Aquarius - Jan Mark
Centre of My World - Andreas Steinhofel
Fly By Night - Frances Hardinge
Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean
The Ennead - Jan Mark
The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
The Twelve & the Genii - Pauline Clarke
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
The Divide - Elizabeth Kay
The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
Set in Stone - Linda Newbery
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
The Silver Donkey - Sonya Hartnett
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
Borderland - Rhiannon Lassiter
A Pure Swift Cry - Siobhan O'Dowd
Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
The Game - Diana Wynne Jones
Black Maria - Diana Wynne Jones
Nightrise - Anthony Horowitz
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Obviously Aquarius is winning hands down as the best read. But The Greengage Summer and The Eagle of the Ninth (both lacking, though hunted for in my own childhood reading) were excellent reads, as is Treasure Island as usual. I was disappointed by The Divide, and by Endymion Spring and there was much about The Amulet of Samarkand I didn't like.
Roll on the next six months - but I might actually write some reviews from now on.