Some of our new members asked for resources for finding good book recommendations, and with a bunch of voracious readers like our daughters, it can be a little tricky to find a book that no one else in the group has read.
For a great list of young adult books that are hot off the presses and come highly recommended, check out the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Here's their list of award winners and top ten best books for 2011.
You can also browse their list of best books for young adults going all the way back to 1996. (I really like these lists, as they annotate and give brief information about each book. This is how we found A Brief History of Montmaray, which we loved.)
Goodreads.com also has a list of recommended titles for young adults. This is a nice resource because you can browse by year or genre.
There is also a well-established Mother Daughter Book Club site that has dozens of lists that can be searched using a variety of criteria, including the age of the reader. It also has a long list of resources for book clubs.
The International Reading Association also has some lists of recommended titles, but they're organized in pdf formats that have to be downloaded, so it's not as user friendly.
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