January 2008
- My Mother the Cheerleader, Robert Sharenow (MP)
- Red Glass, Laura Resau (MP)
- Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher (audio, MP)
- Gideon the Cutpurse, Linda Buckley-Archer
- A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
- The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
- The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud
- To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
- The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, Lloyd Alexander
- Run, Ann Patchett (audio)
- The Tea Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
- Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Jack Gantos (audio)
- The Exception, Christian Jungersen
- The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean
- The Winter Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
February 2008
- A Family Daughter, Maile Meloy
- Dreamquake, Elizabeth Knox
- The Opposite of Invisible, Liz Gallagher
- Jack Plank Tells Tales, Natalie Babbitt
- Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
- The Museum Book, Jan Mark
- The Golem’s Eye, Jonathan Stroud (audio)
- Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
- Slam, Nick Hornby (audio)
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Laura Amy Schlitz
- Emma, Jane Austen
- The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta (audio)
- Snow-walker, Catherine Fisher
- The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman
- A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Linda Urban
- What I Was, Meg Rosoff
- The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean (audio)
March 2008
- Before I Die, Jenny Downham
- Rex Zero and the End of the World, Tim Wynne-Jones
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick (audio)
- The Grey King, Susan Cooper (audio)
- One Whole and Perfect Day, Judith Clarke
- Shooting the Moon, Frances O’Roark Dowell
- Repossessed, AM Jenkins
- Bloody Jack, LA Meyer (audio)
- The Used World, Haven Kimmel (audio)
- The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray
- Sweethearts, Sara Zarr
- The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry
- Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance, Rosalind Porter
- I, Claudius, Robert Graves
- Upstream, Melissa Lion
- The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
- The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (audio)
April 2008
- A Curse as Dark as Gold, Elizabeth C. Bunce
- The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
- Strange Relations, Sonia Levitin
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
- Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida
- Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky (audio)
- Spud, John van de Ruit
- Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Born on a Blue Day, Daniel Tammet (audio)
- Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
- Trouble, Gary D. Schmidt
- The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (audio)
May 2008
- Forgive Me, Amanda Eyre Ward
- Free Food For Millionaires, Min Jin Lee
- The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
- Alice in Sunderland, Bryan Talbot
- Waiting for Normal, Leslie Connor
- The Family Markowitz, Allegra Goodman
- Forever Rose, Hilary McKay
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan (audio)
- The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, Jeanne Birdsall
- Dreamhunter, Elizabeth Knox
- Princess Ben, Catherine Gilbert Murdock
- Suite Scarlett, Maureen Johnson
- Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks (audio)
June 2008
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
- 100 Cupboards, N.D. Wilson
- Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
- Greetings from Nowhere, Barbara O’Connor
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
- Ptolemy’s Gate, Jonathan Stroud (audio)
- Sunshine, Robin McKinley
- The Joys of Love, Madeleine L’Engle
- To Dance, Siena Cherson Siegel
- Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
- Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
- Honeybee: Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
- Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer, Laini Taylor (audio)
- The Winter Prince, Elizabeth E. Wein
- Bloom, Elizabeth Scott
July 2008
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice
- The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (audio)
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
- The Dead and the Gone, Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
- Northlander, Meg Burden
- Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature, Robin Brande
- A Room With a View, EM Forster (audio)
- The Last of the High Kings, Kate Thompson
- Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper (audio)
- After Rain, William Trevor
- The London Eye Mystery, Siobhan Dowd
- Bonk, Mary Roach (audio)
- A Coalition of Lions, Elizabeth E. Wein
- Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Chris Riddell
August 2008
- The Fig Eater, Jody Shields
- Black Swan Green, David Mitchell (audio)
- The Sunbird, Elizabeth E. Wein
- Perfect You, Elizabeth Scott
- The Bearskinner, Laura Amy Schlitz
- Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce
- So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger (audio)
- City of Thieves, David Benioff
- The Underneath, Kathi Appelt
- The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
- Robot Dreams, Sara Varon
- Gentle’s Holler, Kerry Madden
- New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
- The Lion Hunter, Elizabeth E. Wein
September 2008
- Would You, Marthe Jocelyn
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (audio)
- Borrower of the Night, Elizabeth Peters
- Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
- Street of the Five Moons, Elizabeth Peters (audio)
- I, Coriander, Sally Gardner
- A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- Joey Pigza Loses Control, Jack Gantos (audio)
- The President’s Daughter, Ellen Emerson White
- Silhouette in Scarlet, Elizabeth Peters
- The Cabinet of Wonders, Marie Rutkoski
- Trojan Gold, Elizabeth Peters
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, M.T. Anderson (audio)
- Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, Boris Akunin
- Night Train to Memphis, Elizabeth Peters
- The Laughter of Dead Kings, Elizabeth Peters
October 2008
- Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear (audio)
- The Calder Game, Blue Balliett
- Looks, Madeleine George
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen (audio)
- The Empty Kingdom, Elizabeth E. Wein
- The Other Side of the Island, Allegra Goodman
- Impossible, Nancy Werlin
- How I Paid for College, Marc Acito (audio)
- An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
- My Most Excellent Year, Steve Kluger
- When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson (audio)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, M.T. Anderson
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
- Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, Lisa Yee
- Chalice, Robin McKinley
November 2008
- The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
- Mary, Bloody Mary, Carolyn Meyer
- Madapple, Christina Meldrum
- Surviving the Applewhites, Stephanie Tolan
- Brooklyn Bridge, Karen Hesse (audio)
- The Secret of Platform 13, Eva Ibbotson
- Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart (audio)
- Home of the Brave, Katherine Applegate
- Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
- White House Autumn, Ellen Emerson White
- Paper Towns, John Green
- The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry (audio)
- The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon
- Life Without Friends, Ellen Emerson White
- Half a Crown, Jo Walton
- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
- Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
- Dairy Queen, Catherine Gilbert Murdock (audio)
- Judy Moody, Megan McDonald
- Monster, Walter Dean Myers (audio)
- Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
- Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link
December 2008
- Graceling, Kristin Cashore
- The Off Season, Catherine Gilbert Murdock (audio)
- Let it Snow, John Green, Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle
- Undercover, Beth Kephart
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken
- The Missing Girl, Norma Fox Mazer
- Postcards from No Man’s Land, Aidan Chambers
- Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
- Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
- The Diamond of Drury Lane, Julia Golding
- The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
- Getting the Girl, Susan Juby
- The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
- Rapunzel’s Revenge, Shannon & Dean Hale
- Foundling, D.M. Cornish
- Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
- Black Box, Julie Schumacher
Total: 194
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