2011 Totals

2011 Book List:
1. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
2. The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley
3. The Healer's Keep - Victoria Hanley
4. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
5. Across the Universe - Beth Revis
6. Life After Genius - M. Ann Jacoby
7. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabot
8. The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
9. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
10. Delirium - Lauren Oliver
11. The Crimson Thread - Suzanne Weyn
12. The Storyteller's Daughter - Cameron Dokey
13. The Diamond Secret - Suzanne Weyn
14. Matched - Ally Condie
15. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
16. House of Many Ways - Diana Wynne Jones
17. Bumped - Megan McCafferty
18. Jane - April Lindner
19. Divergent - Veronica Roth
20. Abandon - Meg Cabot
21. Smokin' Seventeen - Janet Evanovich
22. The Misted Cliffs - Catherine Asaro
23. Overbite - Meg Cabot
24. The Dawn Star - Catherine Asaro
25. The Fire Opal - Catherine Asaro
26. The Night Bird - Catherine Asaro
27. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn - Alison Goodman
28. Eona: The Last Dragoneye - Alison Goodman
29. The Last Little Blue Envelope - Maureen Johnson
30. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
31. Incredibly Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
32. Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
33. Sisterhood Everlasting - Ann Brashares
34. Incarceron - Catherine Fisher
35. Goliath - Scott Westerfeld
36. Modelland - Tyra Banks
37. Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
38. Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick
39. Encore - Joan Lowery Nixon

Total: 39


Best Book: Sisterhood Everlasting
Although I do have to give a shoutout to Modelland. It was far and away the most...interesting thing I've ever read. In years. It was kind of like a mixture between Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It certainly was quite a trip.

Worst Book: Jane. In 2011, there is no excuse for keeping your crazy wife locked up in the attic. None. Also: mahogany lined box of condoms. It actually happened.

Disappointing Books:It'd have to be a tie between Eona: The Last Dragoneye and Delirium. Bot had interesting story ideas that interested me, but they fell flat. Eona wasn't a bad book, but something happens to a character in the last 25 pages of the book that a) is completely contrary to the path they'd been on for the previous 600 pages and b) completely undermines the strength of the main character. Not to mention that it displays a relationship with SERIOUS trust issues as being "solid." Um, no. And Delirium makes the grade simply because a single editing error on page 16 completely undermined the theme of the book.

Book I Hated with a Fiery Passion: Mockingjay. Character assassination and discarding plot simply to get out an anti-war message. And the laziest writing I think I've EVER read. You don't have a character pass out THREE TIMES during separate but equally important plot points. Just abysmal.

So...erm...quite a bit short of the 100 goal. But I'm okay with that. I can always try again, and I plan to do just that.