Tamora Pierce End Of/Beginning Of Year Booklist

My Favorite Books 2011 (a little late)

 

Books are Young Adult/Teen unless marked otherwise

Series books are in alphabetical, not publication, order
 

A FLIGHT OF ANGELS illustrated by C. Guayete

Abbreviations: 

(YR) = Young Reader/Intermediate/Tween

(xth read) = books I've read a number of times

(collection) = all stories — one author

(anthology) = stories/articles by different authors

(b) = boy hero, of interest to boys

(c) = current

(ed(s).) = editor(s)

(gn) = graphic novel

(h) = horror

(hi) = historical fiction

(alt hi) = alternate history

(nf) = nonfiction
(p) = paranormal

(f) = fantasy

(sf) = science fiction

(mys) = mystery

(v) = novel in verse

 DON'T LET THE PIGEON STAY UP LATE! by Mo Willens

 

Mainstream  YA

  • THREAD AND FLAMES by Esther FriesnerTara Altobrando — DREAMLAND SOCIAL CLUB (c)
  • Laurie Halse Anderson — FORGE (hi, b)
  • Olivia Bennett — THE ALLEGRA BISCOTTI COLLECTION (c)  & WHO WHAT WEAR (c) (YR) (so what if they’re silly?! They’re fun and they’re about fashion!)
  • Esther Friesner — THREADS AND FLAMES (hi)
  • Nancy Garden — ENDGAME (3rd read, c, b)
  • Gail Giles — DARK SONG (c)
  • Mary Downing Hahn — STEPPING ON THE CRACKS (hi)
  • Eva Ibbotsen — A COUNTESS BELOW STAIRS (2nd read, hi)
  • John Klassen (writer & illustrator) — I WANT MY HAT BACK (picture book)
  • Kimberly Marcus — EXPOSED (v)
  • Kathy Ostlere — KARMA (v, c)
  • Cheryl Rainfield — SCARS (c)
  • Trent Reedy — WORDS IN THE DUST (c, set in Afghanistan)
  • Todd Strasser — GIVE A BOY A GUN (3rd read, b)
  • Mo Willems — DON’T LET THE PIGEON STAY UP LATE! (picture book)

DRINK SLAY LOVE by Sarah Beth DurstFantasy/SF—YA

  • Pam Bachorz — DROUGHT (sf)
  • Paolo Bacigalupi — SHIP BREAKER (sf, b)
  • Beth Bernobich — FOX AND PHOENIX (f)
  • Kendare Blake — ANNE DRESSED IN BLOOD (h, ghost story!)
  • Eric Buchanan — SMALL MAGICS (f)
  • Meg Cabot — CODE NAME CASSANDRA & WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES (first of the 1-800-WHERE-R-U series; 2nd read)
  • Sarah Beth Durst — DRINK, SLAY, LOVE (para); ENCHANTED IVY (f)
  • Alison Goodman — EONA (f)
  • James Gurney — DINOTOPIA (b) (a new release)
  • Mary Downing Hahn — LOOK FOR ME BY MOONLIGHT (f)
  • Jackie Morse Kessler — HUNGER and RAGE (f)
  • Caitlin Kittredge — THE IRON THORN (f, a female engineer)
  • THE FREEDOM MAZE by Delia ShermanSophie Littlefield — BANISHED (thriller)
  • Melissa Marr — THE GRAVEMINDER (c, ghost story)
  • Melinda Metz — GIFTED TOUCH & HAUNTED (1st of the Fingertips series, 2nd reading)
  • Mike Mullin — ASHFALL (sf, b)
  • Sharyn November, ed. — FIREBIRDS RISING (2nd read, anthology)
  • Delia Sherman — THE FREEDOM MAZE (time travel, f)
  • Sarah Smith — THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK (ghost)
  • Maggie Stiefvater — THE SCORPIO RACES (f, b)
  • Patricia Wrede — ACROSS THE GREAT BARRIER (alt hi)
  • Moira Young — BLOOD RED ROAD (sf)

Mainstream—Adult

  • THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE by Barbara CleverlyAravind Adiga — BETWEEN THE ASSASSINATIONS; THE WHITE TIGER (c India)
  • Martin Booth — HIROSHIMA JOE (hi)
  • Kathleen Cambor — IN SUNLIGHT, IN A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN (hi)
  • Barbara Cleverly: 4 hi mysteries, India, early 1920s — THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE, RAGTIME IN SIMLA, THE DAMASCENED BLADE and THE PALACE TIGER
  • Anita Diamant — DAY AFTER NIGHT (hi)
  • Barbara Hambly — RAN AWAY (Benjamin January hi mystery, 1830s New Orleans)
  • Barbara Hamilton (a pen name for Barbara Hambly), two Abigail Adams mysteries — A MARKED MAN and SUP WITH THE DEVIL
  • Charlaine Harris — SWEET AND DEADLY (mys)
  • Karen Maitland — COMPANY OF LIARS (hi)
  • THE MARRIAGE BUREAU FOR RICH PEOPLE by Farahad ZamaSharyn McCrumb — THE DEVIL AMONG THE LAWYERS (hi mys in the Appalachians)
  • Robin Oliveira — MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER (hi)
  • Robert Parker — SCHOOL DAYS (c)
  • Jodi Picoult — 19 MINUTES (xth read)
  • Marge Piercy — SEX WARS (hi, 1890s)
  • Erich Maria Remarque — ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (hi)
  • Kathryn Stockett — THE HELP (hi, 1960s)
  • Indu Sundaresan — THE TWENTIETH WIFE (hi, India)
  • Sarah Waters — AFFINITY (hi, 1880s)
  • Farad Zama — THE MARRIAGE BUREAU FOR RICH PEOPLE (c, India)

Thrillers—adult

  • James Lee Burke — IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD
  • WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE by Elmore LeonardWilliam Diehl — PRIMAL FEAR (3rd read)
  • Lisa Gardner — LIVE TO TELL, THE NEIGHBOR
  • John Grisham — RUNAWAY JURY (xth read)
  • John Hart — THE LAST CHILD
  • Susan Hill — THE WOMAN IN BLACK (hi, ghost story to star Daniel Radcliffe)
  • Tami Hoag — NIGHT SINS
  • Elmore Leonard — PRONTO, RIDING THE RAP, WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE (collection); these star Deputy U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, the main character of TV’s Justified, though this Raylan isn’t as handsome!
  • Chuck Logan — AFTER THE RAIN (xth read), HOME FRONT (xth read)
  • Robert McCammon — GOING SOUTH (c)

SF&F—Adult

  • THE MAGICIANS AND MRS. QUENT by Galen BeckettJoe Abercrombie — BEST SERVED COLD (h)
  • Daniel Abraham — THE DRAGON’S PATH (f)
  • Sarah Addison Allen — GARDEN SPELLS, THE GIRL WHO CHASED THE MOON (c, f)
  • Ilona Andrews — BAYOU MOON (f)
  • Galen Beckett — THE MAGICIANS AND MRS. QUENT (f)
  • Beth Bernobich — PASSION PLAY (f)
  • Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, eds. — WELCOME TO BORDERTOWN (anthology)
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs — A PRINCESS OF MARS (sf/f)
  • Mike Carey — THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (2nd read, f)
  • John Connolly (I re-read all of his Charlie Parker books one week this year) —  BAD MEN, THE BURNING SOUL, EVERY DEAD THING, NOCTURNES, THE DARK ANGEL, THE DARK HOLLOW, THE KILLING KIND, THE UNQUIET, THE WHITE ROAD
  • BLOOD MAIDENS by Barbara HamblyRowena Cory Daniells — THE KING’S BASTARD, THE UNCROWNED KING, THE USURPER (f)
  • Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. — THE COYOTE ROAD (anthology)
  • Kate Elliot — COLD MAGIC (f)
  • Pamela Freeman — BLOOD TIES, DEEP WATER, FULL CIRCLE (f)
  • Neil Gaiman — AMERICAN GODS (xth reading)
  • Barbara Hambly — BLOOD MAIDENS (h, vampire)
  • John Horner Jacobs — SOUTHERN GODS (h)
  • N. K. Jemisin — THE BROKEN KINGDOMS, THE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS (f)
  • Diana Wynne Jones — DEEP SECRETS (F, 2nd read)
  • Alma Katsu — THE TAKER (f)
  • Stephen King — 11/22/63 (time travel), THE RUNNING MAN (sf, xth reading)
  • Michael Koryta — THE CYPRESS HOUSE (h)
  • Mercedes Lackey — FIRE ROSE (f)
  • A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR MartinGeorge R. R. Martin — A Song of Fire and Ice: A CLASH OF KINGS, A FEAST OF CROWS, A GAME OF THRONES, A STORM OF SWORDS (2nd read, f)
  • Robert McCammon — BOY’S LIFE, MR. SLAUGHTER, MYSTERY WALK, THE QUEEN OF BEDLAM, SINGS THE NIGHTBIRD (f)
  • Elizabeth Moon — KINGS OF THE NORTH (f)
  • Rachel Neumeier — LAND OF THE BURNING SANDS, LAW OF THE BROKEN EARTH, LORD OF THE CHANGING WINDS (f)
  • Daniel Polansky — LOW TOWN (f)
  • Michael Stackpole — TALION REVENANT (f)
  • Mary Stanton — ANGEL’S ADVOCATE, DEFENDING ANGELS (c, ghost, f)
  • Michelle West — THE HIDDEN CITY (f)
Nonfiction, Graphic Novels/Comics, Poetry
  • SIN IN THE SECOND CITY by Karen AbbottKaren Abbott — SIN IN THE SECOND CITY: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
    • (nf)
  • John M. Barry — RISING TIDE: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (nf)
  • Holly Black, Bill Willingham, Alisa Kwitney, Louise Hawes, Todd Mitchell; ill. By Rebecca Guay — A FLIGHT OF ANGELS (gn)
  • Martin Booth — GOLDEN BOY (autobiography)
  • Frank Cammuso — KNIGHTS OF THE LUNCH TABLE: The Battling Bands (gn)
  • Robert Graves — GOODBYE TO ALL THAT (autobiography)
  • Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones, eds. — DEAR BULLY: 70 Authors and Their Stories
  • Eric Larson — IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (nf)
  • Deborah Lipstadt — THE EICHMANN TRIAL (nf)
  • Lyn Macdonald, ed. — ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH: Poets of the Great War (poetry)
  • Daniel P. Mannix — MEMOIRS OF A SWORD SWALLOWER (autobiography)
  • Cameron McWhirter — RED SUMMER: the Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (nf)
  • Daniel Okrent — LAST CALL: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition
    • (nf)

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