Best Books of 2006

Not the best books published in 2006, but rather, the best books I've read this year... (in chronological order, more or less)

• Beast, by Donna Jo Napoli
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray
• The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan; and Boy Meets Boy, also by Levithan
• Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
• Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld
• Boy Proof, by Cecil Castellucci
• Holes, by Louis Sachar
• Kamikaze Girls, by Takemoto Novala

And: not YA or children's, but...

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon