NPR Best Young Adult Books

Don't you just love "All-Time Best" lists? Over at NPR.org they are condensing the nominations so that YOU can vote to determine the best Young Adult books ever written. All you have to do is hop over there and vote!

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From the website:

"Last month we asked you, our audience, to nominate titles for a top-100 list of the best young adult fiction ever written. Thousands of you sent in nominations. We've tabulated those suggestions and, with the help of an expert panel, narrowed the list to the 235 finalists you see below. 

In winnowing the roster to a manageable size for voting, we considered both a book's popularity — as represented by the number of nominations it received — and the question of how well it fits the YA category. The latter sparked plenty of debate; there is, after all, no objective test for teen fiction. Is Pride and Prejudice YA? What about The Catcher in the Rye? Or The Lord of the Rings? (No, yes and yes, respectively.) The judges looked at qualities such as a book's themes, the age of its main characters, its reading level. But in the end, the most important test was often whether a given book is one that teens themselves have claimed — whether they do, in fact, voluntarily read it. The resulting list is an interesting mix of classics and new titles (click here for a printable list of all the finalists). But Where's MY Favorite Book? What's In, What's Out, And Why: A Guide To The YA Fiction Finalists 

And so, let the voting begin! Everyone gets 10 votes. Once you've selected your top-10 titles, scroll to the bottom of the poll and click "Submit."