Best book you read all year?

[Joyce Valenza]

This may be the first summer in a long time I can read just for fun. I thought it would be cool to plan our summer reading lists here. But let's really be selective. Choose one, just one, book in each category and share it here. Feel free to attach links to reviews or include delicious covers!

Best children's
Best YA
Best graphic novel/memoir, etc.
Best adult fiction
Best adult nonfiction
Best guilty pleasure(!)

[Joan Kapstein]

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (best adult non fiction)

[zoe0114]

I am reading a book named Google Hacks,recommended by a friend at agematch.com . Internet is part of my life, and google the most important tool to looking for useful info on internet. This book just teld us how to use google efficiently...

[Deb Kitchener]

Best YA - The Golden Compass Trilogy - Philip Pullman
Best GN - King by Ho Che Anderson
Best Adult Fiction - Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
Best Adult Nonfiction - Sisters in the Wilderness by Charlotte Gray
Best Guilty Pleasure - The Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by Sandra Gulland

[Pat Ropchan]

Best adult fiction read recently - The Space Between Us - Thritty Umrigar

[Julia Beck]

Best Children's: Philip Pullman's "Dark Materials" series
Best YA: "Twilight" series by Stephanie Meyer and "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
Best graphic novel: "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and illus. Peter Kuper

Best Adult Fiction: "The Secret River "by Kate Grenville, "The Sultan's Seal" by Jennie White, "The Yacoubian Building" by Al Aswany

Best Adult Non-Fiction: "Pythagoras's Trousers" by Margaret Wertheir , "Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions" by John Gray and Richard Wright's "A short history of progress.

I cannot choose just one book in any category - words nourish my moods - I am seldom without a collection of many near armchairs and bedside.

[Elizabeth Crispino]

I agree 100% with your "Best Children's" and "Best YA" posts...LOVED all of them!

[Jane L. Hyde]

Best adult fiction: At Swim, Two Boys, by Jamie O'Neill
Best YA Fiction: Lady,:My Life as a Bitch, by Melvin Burgess
Best guilty pleasure: Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
Best memoir: Oleander, Jacaranda, Penelope Lively
Best children's book: Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
Afult non-fiction: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett

For brief reviews of some of these, see my reading blog at http://lateatnightwhenthecat.blogspot.com.

[Mary Goglio]

Best YA: Ironman by Chris Crutcher
Best adult fiction:Away by Amy Bloom and Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Best adult nonfiction:My Life in France by Julia Child (I love reading about food and foodies)
Guilty pleasure:Case Histories by Kate Atkinson and Whole World Over by Julia Glass (more food stuff).

[Julia Beck]

Best YA: Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of Otori Series) by Lian Hearn
Best Adult Fiction: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones and the Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Best Adult Non-Fiction: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and The Judgement of Paris : The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by RossTodd

[Jeff Vogt]

Best Children's - Poor Puppy (delightful sequel to the hilarious ABC book Bad Kitty)
Best YA - King Dork (A humourous mystery set in high school. I haven't laughed out loud so many times reading a book since reading Lamb)
Graphic Novel - Emily the Strange: Chairman of the Bored (awesome illustrations and characterization that totally captures emo/goth students)
Adult Fiction - Cinnamin Kiss (I love the way blends black history with social commentary in a intriguing dectective story)
Adult Non Fiction - It's all too Much (an how-to organization book by TLC's Peter)
Guilty Pleasure - Princess Mia (Love the pop culture references along with teen angst.

[Andrea Langelaar]

Best Children's: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Best YA: The Book Thief

Best Adult Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Best Guilty Pleasure: Jane Eyre

I am a HUGE historical fiction fan! I try to read as much of it as possible during my "free" time. Above are my most recent answers, maybe not my all-time favourites. Really do love the brilliant first two works of Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid Suns.

[teacherninja]

Children's: The Arrival by Shaun Tan

YA: Looking For Alaska by John Green

Adult Nonfiction: Freedom For the Thought We Hate by Anthony Lewis

Both Children's AND Guilty Pleasure: On The Run (series) by Gordon Korman --This was like 24 for my fourth gradres and I!