Favourite YA Books of 2010

That time of year for yearly round-ups, so…. here are my favourite twelve YA books of 2010. With some bonus statistics.

Short story collections: 1

Collaborations: 1

Single-author novels: 10

Dystopian: 3

Contemporary/realistic: 6

Suspense: 1

Paranormal/dead narrator: 2

Authors I'd read before: 4.5

Authors new to me: 7.5

Books I saw being fussed over and hyped up: 4

Books I would have liked to have seen more hyped up: 8

And the list itself…

Ally Condie – Matched

Caragh M O'Brien – Birthmarked

Deb Caletti – The Six Rules of Maybe

Emily Horner – A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

Gemma Malley – The Legacy

Holly Schindler – A Blue So Dark

Jandy Nelson – The Sky Is Everywhere

Jeri Smith-Ready – Shade

John Green & David Levithan – Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Keith Gray (ed.) – Losing It

Lauren Oliver – Before I Fall

Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice