YWS Recent Books Debate

Trident · 2007-04-17T21:50:01Z

Here I will list the books that have been nominated for the YWS Top 100 Recent Books. Reasons why or why not certain books should be considered can also go here. Remember, this is for books that are newer than 50 years. Please nominate books in the other thread provided. Thanks! Alphabetically, by author -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Douglas Adams -- The Plato Papers[i], Peter Ackroyd --[i]Time Cat , Lloyd Alexander -- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles , Julie Andrews -- Xanth series, Piers Anthony -- The Book of Illusions , Paul Auster -- The Prince of Nothing series, Scott. R. Bakker -- Abarat quintet, Clive Barker -- Jennifer Government , Max Barry -- Something Wicked This Way Comes , Ray Bradbury -- A Great and Terrible Beauty , Libba Bray -- The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown -- A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess -- If On A Winter's Night a Traveller , Italo Calvino -- Ender's Game , Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Shadow , Orson Scott Card -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower , Stephen Chbosky -- Asian Saga series, James Clavell -- The Dark Is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper -- Jurassic Park , Michael Crichton -- Star by Star , Troy Denning -- The Man in the High Castle , Philip K Dick -- The Belgariad series, David Eddings -- The Riftwar Saga trilogy, Raymond E. Feist -- Postcards From the Edge , Carrie Fisher -- Cold Mountain , Charles Fraizer -- The Thief Lord , Cornelia Funke -- The Polish Officer , Alan Furst -- American Gods , Neil Gaiman -- Anansi Boys , Neil Gaiman -- Legend , David Gemmell -- The Sword of Truth series, Terry Goodkind -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time , Mark Haddon -- Tales of the Otori series, Lian Hearn -- Catch-22 , Joseph Heller -- The Power of Five series, Anthony Horowitz -- The Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini -- The View From The Mirror quartet, Ian Irvine -- The Well Of Echoes quartet, Ian Irvine -- Castle series, Diana Wynne Jones -- The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan -- The Analyst , John Katzenbach -- Christine , Stephen King -- The Dark Tower series, Stephen King -- The Stand , Stephen King -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , E. L. Konigsburg -- The Historian , Elizabeth Kostova -- Time Quartet series, Madeline L'Engle -- The Giver , Lois Lowry -- One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez -- The Squire, His Knight and His Lady , Gerald Morris -- Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix -- Shade's Children , Garth Nix -- Beasts , Joyce Carol Oates -- To Jaykae: Life Stinx , Jean Davies Okimoto -- The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow , Fuyumi Ono -- Inheritance series, Christopher Paolini -- Freak the Mighty , Rodman Philbrick -- My Sister's Keeper , Jodi Picoult -- Protector of the Small series, Tamora Pierce -- Provost's Dog trilogy, Tamora Pierce -- The Song of the Lioness series, Tamora Pierce -- The Will of the Empress , Tamora Pierce -- The Thief trilogy, Megan Whalen Turner -- Chainletter series, Christopher Pike -- Remember Me series, Christopher Pike -- What Happened to Lani Garver , Carol Plum-Ucci -- The Carpet People , Terry Pratchett -- Discworld series, Terry Pratchett -- His Dark Materials , Phillip Pullman -- Hungry City Chronicles series, Philip Reeve -- Interview With the Vampire , Anne Rice -- Medieval Word of Margaret of Ashbury series, Judith Merkle Riley -- Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling -- Old Man's War , John Scalzi -- The Long Way Home , Lauraine Snelling -- A Series of Unfortunate Events series, Lemony Snicket -- The Egypt Game , Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Bartimaeus trilogy, Jonathan Stroud -- Montmorency series, Eleanor Updale -- Slaughterhouse-Five , Kurt Vonnegut -- The Color Purple , Alice Walker -- Wars of Light and Shadow series, Janny Wurts -- The Tiger's Apprentice series, Laurence Yep -- A Sorcerer's Treason , Sarah Zettel

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Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:26 am

Cpt. Smurf says... · Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:26 am

Please, PLEASE, for the love of god, put your nominations in the Nominations thread. And if you want Roald Dahl, then nominate him. In the Nominations thread.

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Sat May 05, 2007 1:57 pm

Pushca says... · Sat May 05, 2007 1:57 pm

Shriek wrote:
Pushca wrote:
Shriek wrote:
KazSmurf wrote:
Shriek wrote:I would like to nominate Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yeah, I'm aware that the book has been branded with the YA label -- something many of us "literaries" look down upon. Despite this, I think it's an extraordinary read, and feel it has real staying power. It was also a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, if that should help boost your opinion of it.

So was Eragon, if I'm not mistaken?! Just ignore me, though, I've never heard of this book, and it's obviously not of the same yurgh standard as that! I think my point is that the fact it's best-selling has nothing to do with the quality. But anyway, I'm splitting hairs here. And rambling. I'll shut up now!

Oh, I'm aware. But this book, in my opinion, was deserving of the generous amount of copies it sold.

I disagree. I knew what happened to her from reading the back of the book. I also like the stack of quote boxes we've got going.

That is the most ignorant shooting down of a book I've ever heard! If you don't want to know the ending, then don't skip ahead. It is obvious that you're going to find out what happens to a character by reading the book's final pages.

Ah, well. In the end, it is your fault that the book was ruined -- not the author's.

um... back of the book as in the back cover.

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Wed May 23, 2007 4:48 am

sanguine_dreams says... · Wed May 23, 2007 4:48 am

Tamora Pierce's books were enjoyable to begin with and become better and better as you go through the years of her writing career. And all y'all haters can kiss my Southern patootie*!

*No, I do not say "patootie" in real life. It was just for emphasis on my Southerness.

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Sat May 26, 2007 7:16 am

Anthaslunula says... · Sat May 26, 2007 7:16 am

Well i really enjoyed Tamara's books - Maybe not now but i did and they were a pretty big part of my... reading life, so for me they deserve to be on the list.

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Sat May 26, 2007 4:12 pm

something euclidean says... · Sat May 26, 2007 4:12 pm

I really liked Tamora Pierce's books - they were fun, they got to be more well-written as time went on (it's good to see a published author who keeps working on her craft) ... but I don't know if they should make it to the final list. This list seems more concerned with best, rather than just favorite.

Likewise: I don't think Christopher Pike's books should make it; neither should Terry Goodkind's.

SO GLAD "A Clockwork Orange" is on the list.

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Sat May 26, 2007 4:26 pm

deleted6 says... · Sat May 26, 2007 4:26 pm

Christopher Pike an amazing writer, he keeps me reading, also I chose the best ones. Remember Me saga was brill and the twist in The Chainletter book 2 was so unexpected.

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