A list of some of the best current UK young adult fiction. Based on resources listed on http://ukyabooks.wordpress.com/about/ Do add your own favourites, if they're missing.
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578 books · 389 voters · list created April 9th, 2012 by Elen Caldecott (votes) .
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Elen 102 books
322 friends
Dave 261 books
167 friends
Miriam 468 books
533 friends
Milly 246 books
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Sarah 12223 books
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Fiona 186 books
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Catherine 30 books
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David 67 books
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Comments Showing 1-10 of 10 (10 new)

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message 1: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Hope you don't mind but I just added about 50 more books to the list for you :o)


message 2: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Sarah wrote: "Hope you don't mind but I just added about 50 more books to the list for you :o)"

Hurray! The more UKYA the merrier!


message 3: by Ela (new)

Ela YAY Knife of Never letting Go is number 1, but Sioban Dowd and Black Rabbit Summer should be higher up.


message 4: by Kamille (new)

Kamille I hope you don't mind me asking but why is Divergent on this list?


message 5: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Don't mind you asking at all! I guess the person adding it doesn't know where the author is from. And, as far as I can tell, only the person who has nominated a book can remove it.


message 6: by Kamille (new)

Kamille Oh right. I was just a bit surprised to see it here.


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Good to see 'I Capture the Castle' so high up on the list. I think it deserves more attention than it has these days.


message 8: by Elen (new)

Elen Caldecott Skyla (Skoyklha) Happy Go Lucky and Lost in Books wrote: "I removed a couple of books that belonged to American authors not UK ones. If you want to list any that don't match I can remove them for you."

Thanks, Skyla, that's realy helpful!


message 9: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl deleted user wrote: "Good to see 'I Capture the Castle' so high up on the list. I think it deserves more attention than it has these days."

Except that the description says "current" and, since it (and The Hobbit) were published before GoodReads existed, I vote they be removed.

Is the creator of the list still reading this??


message 10: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Elen wrote: "Don't mind you asking at all! I guess the person adding it doesn't know where the author is from. And, as far as I can tell, only the person who has nominated a book can remove it."

Any librarian can remove it. Ask for librarian status.


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