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Monday, February 4, 2019

Top Ten Tuesday---Books I have recommended the most for the past decade

I'm off the day's topic...

Top Ten Tuesday: The book I recommended the most often to others in the past ten years. (Both in my capacity of a teen librarian, a blogger, and a reader!)

2019: (So far) Becoming by Michelle Obama*

2018: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Adult)*
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka (YA)*

2017: The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood (Adult)*
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA)

2016: West With the Night by Beryl Markham (Adult)
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Adult)*
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

2014: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Adult)*
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (YA)

2013: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Adult)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (YA)

2012: Ready Player One by Ernst Cline (Adult)*
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and The Scorpio Races* by Maggie Stiefvater (YA)

2011: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (adult)
Stolen by Lucy Christopher (YA)

2010: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (adult)*
Graceling by Kristin Cashore and Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card (YA)

*I still tell people to read these books in 2019!