The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. Read the nominees now and then vote in August and September for your favorite (we’ll post the link to vote here). The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October. The nominees are:

All Good Children by Catherine Austen

Ashes by Ilsa Bick

Abandon by Meg Cabot

Tempest by Julie Cross

What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen

Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gullede

Legend by Marie Lu

Hourglass by Myra McEntire

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Shine by Lauren Myracle

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd. Illus. by Jim Kay.

This Dark Endeavor:  The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin

Previous winners.

Teen’s across the country chose Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare as their favorite book in the annual Teens’ Top Ten vote. Nearly 10,000 votes were cast online between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15.

The 2011 Teens’ Top Ten is:

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Matched by Ally Condie
Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Did your favorite make the list? I’ve read Matched, Paranormalcy, and Nightshade with Iron King and I Am Number Four on my To Be Read list.

Teens’ Top Ten is a teen choice list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Teens will vote online between Aug. 22 and Sept. 16 for their favorite book; the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week.

YALSA Top Ten Teen Nominations

The Teen Buckeye Book Award is now seeking nominations for 2011. Ohio is the only state to have a statewide book award program nominated and voted on exclusively by students. Adults need not apply. You may nominate your favorite books until March 10. The top five nominations in each category are announced by the end of March, so teachers, librarians and students can become familiar with the nominated books and read them throughout the spring and summer. Voting will take place from September 1 – November 10, and the winners will be announced on December 1. You may only nominate books by American authors, originally published in the previous 2 years.

Ohio teens 9^th through 12^th graders go here to nominate a book:

Need something new to read? Check out some of these award winning books:

YALSA’s Best Fiction
YALSA’s Popular Paperbacks

Looking for something based in reality to read? Try one of these books that have been nominated for the 2011 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction:

Books written for adults that appeal to teens, check out the 2010 Alex Award winners:

Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Bride's Farewell

Good Soldiers

Kids Are All Right

Magicians

My Abandonment

Soulless

I’ve only read a couple of these titles but one of my hands down favorite books last year was Soulless. I totally need an umbrella like Alexia’s; you never know when you might meet a rogue vampire or werewolf in need of a good walloping.

Vote for your favorite book from 2009.

Nominees:

• Death of Jayson Porter
• Just Another Hero
• Hunted Whiteout
• Ink Exchange
• Tempted