Rebecca's Book Awards for 2008!

[rebecca_in_blue]

My Book Awards for 2008 are finished! They didn't come out quite the way I expected this year. I didn't read a lot in 2008, but that also means I didn't read a lot of bad books, which eliminated a lot of dead weight and made it pretty hard to choose the worst in each category. Eventually I had to get rid of the Worst Overall category, something I'd never before, because nothing I read was really that bad.

Best Overall: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
Best Overall Runner-Up: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson.

Best Children/Teen: The Seer of Shadows, by Avi.
Best Children/Teen Runner-Up: Bird Lake Moon, by Kevin Henkes.
Worst Children/Teen: Godless, by Pete Hautman.
Worst Children/Teen Runner-Up: The Half-Child, by Kathleen Hersom.

Best Nonfiction: Last Breath, by Peter Stark.
Best Nonfiction Runner-Up: All Over But the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg.
Worst Nonfiction: Or Not to Be, by Marc Etkind.
Worst Nonfiction Runner-Up: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, by Barry Denenberg.

Breakout Author of 2008: Suzanne Collins.


Speak, by Laura Halse Anderson.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.
The Seer of Shadows, by Avi.
Child Star: An Autobiography, by Shirley Temple Black.
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson, by Judy Blume.
All Over but the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg.
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, by Barry Denenberg.
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.
Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes, by Marc Etkind.
Godless, by Pete Hautman.
Bird Lake Moon, by Kevin Henkes.
The Half-Child, by Kathleen Hersom.
Boston Jane: An Adventure, by Jennifer L. Holm.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson.
California Girls! by Ann M. Martin.
Carla et les trois monstres, by Ann M. Martin.
Claudia et le visiteur fantome, by Ann M. Martin.
Jessi and the Dance School Phantom, by Ann M. Martin.
Le Secret de Lucy, by Ann M. Martin.
A Paper Life, by Tatum O'Neal.
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare.
Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, by Peter Stark.
Calvin et Hobbes : Enfin seuls ! Bill Watterson.
Calvin et Hobbes : Le monde est magique ! Bill Watterson.
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Comments

[morningloryblue.livejournal.com]

Ok, I will have to check out Suzanne Collins. Also, I am interested in the title you mentioned by Shirley Jackson.

I liked this idea about book awards. I know you think you didn't read much last year, but from my perspective, this is quite an impressive list.

[makebeliever.livejournal.com]

That Shirley Jackson book is like my favorite book ever. You should totally try to find it. The Hunger Games is also really good.

--The Woman Who Recommends Everything to Rebecca and As Such Takes Credit for Half that List (That's Right!)