Published April 17, 2007
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
um... back of the book as in the back cover.
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.
yeah where are the Roald Dahl books?
My vote to Harry Potter series.
none of Roald Dahl is here?
he surely fits the bill for 50years thingy, right?
this is an outrage!
i vote for Lemony Snicket's A series of Unfortyunate Evants
and
the Bartimaeus Trilogy
the HP series
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.
:coughs: Um, I'm not trying to sound like an authority here, but nominations go in the nomination thread. This is the debate. The nominations are clogging it up. Thank you.
I know, isn't it fun!
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.
The Black Magician Trilogy - Trudi Canavan
The Age of 5 Trilogy - Trudi Canavan
The Dirk Pitt series - Clive Cussler
The Belgairad - David Eddings
The Mallorean - David Eddings
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Storming Heavon - Dale Brown
Day of the Cheetah - Dale Brown
Fools Errand - Robin Hobb
The Sharpe Series - Bernard Cornwell
Heres my contribution..
Whoops I forgot Kel. Go Kel !!!!!!!
Go Jaina Solo,Go Tahiri,Go Jacen,Go Tenel Ka,Go Mara,Go Luke.
I love Star by Star !!!!
I love star wars.
George Lucas is amazing
Oh, I'm aware. But this book, in my opinion, was deserving of the generous amount of copies it sold.
I'm supporting Star by Star and Song of the Lioness quartet as as Eldest.
And I like Daine for your info not Alanna.
Lanna
So was Eragon, if I'm not mistaken?!
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.
OMG YES The Perks of Being a Wallflower! That was pretty much the best thing in teen angst literature...ever.
Not sure about the Da Vinci Code. It wasn't a great book. The ideas it presented, while nothing new, were what made the novel. The problem is that people actually believed what Dan Brown said in the book, which is insane. My dad's a social studies teacher, and he has his entire rant about how the Da Vinci Code is FICTION, not NON-FICTION, but he still has students who challenge what's taught in class because of the stupid book.
In terms of controversy, it was an important book of our time, but in terms of being good literature? Noooo.
the Sight by David Clement-Davies. I doubt many people have heard of it, but it's a great read. If you haven't read it I'd highly recommend it.
Just an idea, maybe there should be a limit on the number of books/series an author can have on the list? (Just like for awhile, New York Times clumped the Potter books together, because they were taking up, like, half of the bestseller list.) Dunno, just a suggestion.
Niel Gaiman.
*snuggles*
I didn't like My Sister's Keeper. It's blasphemy, I know, everybody loves Jodi Picoult, but I wasn't emotionally attached to the characters at all. I think I was kind of insulted by Anna seeming younger to me than 13. I got through it... and I really didn't care. I read Vanishing Acts by her, too, and felt the same way. She has plot, I just don't like the characters. Sort of the opposite of Stephenie Meyer.
As to The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, I was so mad when I finished it at 7 am - I sacrificed an entire night of sleep so I could find out everything turned out exactly like I thought it would. The same with his Angels and Demons.
I did love The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I thought it was going to be a rather done view of the world from the "outside", but it was really well-done. Depressing at times, but good.
I love Garth Nix, but I would replace "Shade's Children" with the Abhorsen trilogy. It's more deserving of a Top 100 list in my opinion.
I also support "American Gods" and "Anansi Boys". Neil Gaiman rocks.
I'd also like to nominate the "Abarat" series by Clive Barker.
Siddharta by Herman Hesse was also good, but I'm not sure when it was written so...which list does it belong on?
Personally, I like the "Inkheart" series better than "The Thief Lord".
I'd also like to nominate "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray.
the historian!
I am glad.
and HeadInTheClouds, our avatars are very similar. hehe. =P
Nah, I think at least Song of the Lioness should be on there. I loved that series when I was younger. But yeah, Inheritance shouldn't be on the list. It's not even close to deserving.
Postcards From the Edge is my favorite. I love Carrie Fisher.
I don't like Pierce at all. I think she's boring and I've heard some really bad things about some of her books...
Eugh. Inheritance makes me feel ashamed to be human, let alone a teenage writer. I'd also have to disagree with the nominations for Tamora Pierce. She's not bad, but I'm not sure I'd put her in a "Top 100."
I would like to reassert my second from the other thread: if anything is worthy of a "Top 100" list, His Dark Materials is.
Yes, well I'm saying so, again. I think I will be close to suicide if Inheritance comes anywhere near this list. (Well, slight exaggeration, but you get the gist) And for some inexplicable reason I am suddenly unable to think of any recent books, other than the ones already nominated. I've thought of plenty of classics, though (or fairy tales
)
Lol, simply nominations. If you think they don't deserve to be on there, then say so. And in the process, nominate some that should!
:stares: What is Tamora Pierce doing on there? And Inheritance. Does anyone else have the urge to go buy a BB gun and shoot a certain book?
Urgh, Inheritance can't possibly make it any further. Stupid excuse for a book.
I'm guessing the Inheritance series is a no-no. It is, after all, perhaps the main reason we're making this list.
I've never read it (nor even heard of it for that matter), but I don't think Pratchett's The Carpet People should be on here, as it's not really notable, and certainly isn't as notable as his Discworld series.