Award Spotlight: School Library Journal's Best Adult Books for Teens

The end of the year and beginning of the next bring numerous “best of” lists.  School Library Journal has several Best of 2012 lists, but I thought I might share with you what we have on our shelves that reviewers found to be the best adult books for teen readers.  Whether you already read mostly adult fiction or non-fiction, you read back and forth between teen and adult reads, or you’ve been thinking about branching out into the adult collection, you might consider checking out one of these.  What would be on your “best of” list?

Best Adult Books 4 Teens 2012

• Dare Me by Megan Abbott (Fiction)
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Nonfiction)
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (Fiction)
• The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau (Fiction)
• The Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig (Fiction)

• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Fiction)
• Goliath by Tom Gauld (Graphic Novel)
• The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande (Nonfiction)
• Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (Nonfiction)
• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (Nonfiction)

• Little Century by Anna Keesey (Fiction)
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told you about Being Creative by Austin Kleon (Nonfiction)
• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen (Fiction)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Fiction)

• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (Fiction)
• Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Street, One Helping Hand at a Time by Carissa Phelps (Nonfiction)
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Fiction)
• The Cove by Ron Rash (Fiction)

• Sailor Twain: Or the Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel (Graphic Novel)
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Nonfiction)
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Fiction)
• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (Fiction) 

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