As I was randomly surfing the net, I stumbled at the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) website and found out that The Best Books for Young Adults committee of YALSA each year selects and annotates a list of significant adult and young adult books. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult. I viewed the top 10 list and decided to let you guys know the must have books this 2009.

1. It's Complicated: The American Teenager
by : Bowman, Robin
ISBN : 978-1-884167-69-0

2. Waiting for Normal
by : Conner, Leslie

3. Mexican WhiteBoy
by : de la Pena, Matt
ISBN : 978-0-385-73310-6

4. Bog Child
by : Dowd, Siobhan
ISBN : 978-0-385-75169-8

5. The Hunger Games
by : Collins, Suzanne
ISBN : 978-0-439-02348-1

6. Ten Cents a Dance.
by : Fletcher, Christine
ISBN : 978-1-59990-164-0

7. Baby
by : Monninger, Joseph.
ISBN : 978-1-59078-502-7

8. Nation
by : Pratchett, Terry.
ISBN : 978-0-06-143302-3

9. Skim
by : Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
ISBN : 978-0-88899-753-1

10. The Brothers Torres
by : Voorhees, Coert
ISBN : 978-1-4231-0304-2

Don't worry, I won't let you rush in to a bookstore and buy a book without knowing anything about it! You deserve more that that. :) So I'll make a Top 10 YA Books special, where every day, I will post something about these books so that you'll know if the story jives with your taste for stories. So stay tuned!

* http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/09topten.cfm