Books Read, 2010 (partial)

[owlectomy]

I feel like I'm missing a bunch, since I was really only tracking YA books, but I mostly only read YA books so I'm not missing too much.

I loved many of these books. I was glad to discover Elizabeth Hand, finally and far too late; I glommed on to two desperately dark and brutal YA books, Janne Teller's "Nothing" and Sonya Hartnett's "Butterfly"; I cheered every debut novel and especially liked "Guardian of the Dead" and "The Replacement"; I need the sequel to "White Cat" yesterday, and loved "Ship Breaker" for being dystopian without falling into the usual traps of teen dystopias; "Kasha" (in English as "All She Was Worth") is the longest Japanese novel I've ever read, suspenseful and well-written enough to hold my attention for the months it took me to finish it.


Paolo Bacigalupi -- Ship Breaker
Susan Campbell Bartoletti -- They Called Themselves the K.K.K.
Josh Berk -- The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
Holly Black -- White Cat
Rick Bowers -- Spies of Mississippi
Louis Sachar -- The Cardturner
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
Catherine Fisher -- Incarceron
Elizabeth Hand -- Illyria
Elizabeth Hand -- Black Light
Sonya Hartnett -- Butterfly
Rachel Hawkins -- Hex Hall
Karen Healey -- Guardian of the Dead
Alice Hoffman -- Green Witch
N.K. Jemisin -- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Angela Johnson -- Sweet, Hereafter
Hope Larson -- Mercury
Melina Marchetta -- Finnikin of the Rock
Farah Mendlesohn -- The Galactic Playground
Haya Leah Molnar -- Under a Red Sky
Jen Nadol -- The Mark
Jandy Nelson -- The Sky Is Everywhere
Nnedi Okorafor -- Who Fears Death
Sofia Quintero -- Ephrain's Secret
Jamie Richards -- Three Rivers Rising
Marcus Sedgwick -- Revolver
Francisco X. Stork -- The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Allan Stratton -- Borderline
Janne Teller -- Nothing
Kate Thompson -- The White Horse Trick
Megan Whalen Turner -- The King of Attolia
Brenna Yovanoff -- The Replacement

In Japanese:

Miyabe Miyuki -- Kasha
Kanehara Hitomi -- Hebi ni Piasu