Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!

Hello, my teenage friends. Just wanted to let you know that Reading Rants will be taking a holiday break until January 5th. Thank you so much for all your 2011 comments and feedback, I love seeing what you think about the books you read.  I look forward to all the fab things you have to say about the upcoming 2012 titles, which are already starting to pile up on my bedside table. So have a happy merry, and if you need something to distract you from all the holiday disfunction, I mean fun, please check out my 2011 Top Ten list–nothing there but goodies, I promise! Take care, and I’ll “read” ya next year!

Oh, I love lists! I love making my end of year book lists, and I love reading everyone else’s! But when a decade comes to a close, you have the opportunity of a lifetime to make an extra-special, super-significant (if only to me:) BIG book list. So I decided to compile a list of the 10 most under-the-radar, deserving-of-more-love-than-they-got YA books of the decade, IMHO.  (And if any of these look familiar, it’s because they were each plucked from the RR Top Ten list of their respective year.) I do hope this inspires you to go back and dig these lovelies up, and also to think about what books would end up not just on your end of year list, but on your fav books of the DECADE. Or even OF ALL TIME. (It’s just fun giving your list a name in ALL CAPS. That means it’s even MORE AWESOME:)

2000: Eight Seconds by Jean Ferris

2001: Every Time a Rainbow Diesby Rita Williams-Garcia

2002: Tribes by Arthur Slade

2003: Deep by Susanna Vance

2004: Rockstar, Superstar by Blake Nelson

2005: Lovesickby Jake Coburn

2006: The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos

2007: Bloodsong by Melvin Burgess

2008: Life Sucks by Jessica Abel

2009: Punkzilla by Adam Rapp