Dear Teen Peeps,
Like last year, I haven’t read nearly as much YA as I wanted to/should have, due to number of tedious, adult-ing reasons. So here is a leaner, meaner list of my top five best YA reads of 2017. I mean, I could have dragged the list out to ten, but that would have taken away from the absolute awesomeness of these five, utterly top-notch books. Please note that there has been absolutely no attempt to balance this list by age, gender or genre. These are just my “from-the-gut†favorites of the books I read this year. Click on the title to go right to the review.
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
Be True to Me by Adele Griffin
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
Vincent & Theo by Deborah Heiligman
My top five:
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
I liked American Street, Berserker, and Genuine Fraud, but none of them made my top 10.
Oh I so loved your list and I agree with all of them but I still have to get to Vincent and Theo! Thanks so much for your wonderful reviews & recommendations!