(Slightly related cartoon. Just thought it was funny)

Hello lovely people! It’s been a distracted kinda day in my world today, and when I have distracted days, my favourite thing to do is make lists of things. Any kind of thing, really, from favourite foods to favourite smells to favourite episodes of Friends …

But you probably aren’t too interested in the fact that I love potato gnocchi (gluten-free, natch), the smell of Tasmanian air after being away, or the episode where Phoebe becomes Chandler’s PA.

What you ARE interested in is books, right?

SO! I decided that my distracted list of today would be my top 20 YA reads of 2010. I know, I know it’s not quite over yet, but I am an impatient sort of person as well as being a distracted one, and so I just couldn’t wait!

Anyhoo, here ’tis! Comment, discuss, tell me your own lists. I love reading lists almost as much as I love writing them!

Top 20 YA Reads of 2010

  1. The Fitzosbornes in Exile (The Montmaray Journals, #2), Michelle Cooper
  2. Girl Aloud, Emily Gale
  3. The Worst Thing She Ever Did, Alice Kuipers
  4. Heist Society, Ally Carter
  5. The Unidentified, Rae Mariz
  6. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
  7. Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4), Ally Carter
  8. A Curse Dark as Gold, Elizabeth C Bunce
  9. Miss Understanding: My Summer on the Shelf, Lara Fox
  10. Montacute House, Lucy Jago
  11. The Other Countess, Eve Edwards
  12. Slice: Juicy Moments From My Impossible Life, Steven Herrick
  13. Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan
  14. Dear Swoosie, Kate Constable & Penni Russon
  15. The Boy/Friend, RM Corbet
  16. Invisible I (The Amanda Project, #1), Stella Lennon
  17. The Summer Before, Ann M Martin
  18. Linger, Maggie Stiefvater
  19. Loving Richard Feynman, Penny Tangey
  20. Torment, Lauren Kate

Huzzah! There it be! Whatcha reckon?