The best of the titles I've read published in 2010. Of course, I read back titles as well as into the new year. So, we are already seeing some of those hot titles for 2011. Make sure to check out my co-host, Donalyn Miller's, list as well. Good reading everyone!

1. Titletalk BestBooks of2010
Paul W. Hankins
November 28, 2010
Middle Grade Titles
Spilling Inkby Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter
The Strange Case ofthe Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Attackofthe Fluffy Bunnies byAndrea Beaty
The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of
Lydia Goldblattand Julie Graham Chang byAmy Ignatow
Out ofMy Mind by Sharon Draper
Sugar and Ice (December 2010) byKate Messner
Howto Grow Up and Rule the World by Vordak the Incomprehensible
The Magnificent 12: The Call byMichael Grant
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Mockingbird byKathryn Erskine
The Dreamer Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis
On the Blue Comet byRosemary Wells
The Butler Gets a Break: A Bellweather's Story byKristin Clark Venuti
The Defense ofThaddeus A. Ledbetter byJohn Gosselink
The Heart ofa Samurai by Margi Preus
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
The PS Brothers byMaribeth Boeltz
Bink and Gollie byKate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
Penny Dreadful byLaurel Snyder

2. Titletalk BestBooks of2010
Paul W. Hankins
November 28, 2010
Diary ofa Wimpy Kid: The UglyTruth by Jeff Kinney
The Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
Nice and Mean byJessica Leader
Graphic Novels
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
Foiled by Jane Yolen
Hereville: HowMirka GotHer Sword by Barry Deutsch
Big Nate: In a Class By Himself by Lincoln Pierce
Dante's Divine Comedy (Graphic Novel) adapted bySeymour Chwast
Dick and Jane and Vampires byLaura Marchesani
Young Adult Titles
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by JoshLieb
Chasing Brooklynby Lisa Schroeder
Dirty Little Secrets by C. J. Omolulo
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
The Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Riding Invisible by Sandra Alonzo
The Water Seeker byKimberly Willis Holt
You by Charles Benoit (September 2010)
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Frank X. Stork

3. Titletalk BestBooks of2010
Paul W. Hankins
November 28, 2010
CountdownbyDeborah Wiles
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Numbers byRachel Ward
MistwoodbyLeah Cypess
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Black Hole Sun byDavid Macinnis Gill
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto byEric Luper
Monsters ofMen by Patrick Ness
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
The Tension ofOpposites by Kristina McBride
Girl Parts by JohnM. Cusick
The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly
The Secret to Lying by Todd Mitchell
As Easy as Falling offthe Face ofthe Earth byLynne Rae Perkins
Sea by Heidi R. Kling
Scars by Cheryl Rainfeld
Matched byAlly Condie
Ship Breaker byPaolo Bacigalupi

4. Titletalk BestBooks of2010
Paul W. Hankins
November 28, 2010
Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft
Virgin Territory byJames Lecesne
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
A Girl Named Mister by Nikki Grimes
Picture the Dead byAdele Griffin
Nightshade byAndrea Cremer
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Life, After bySarah Darer Littman
Mockingjay bySuzanne Collins
The Mermaid Mirror by L. K. Madigan
Hunger byJackie Morse Kessler
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
Bruiser byNeal Shusterman
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
Professional Titles
The BookWhispererby DonalynMiller
What'stheBigIdea?by Jim Burke
ReadingLadders by Teri Lesense
PyrotechnicsonthePage by RalphFletcher
The Worldis Openby Curtis J. Bonk

5. Titletalk BestBooks of2010
Paul W. Hankins
November 28, 2010
AdolescentsontheEdge by Jimmy Santiago Baca
High Definitionby MichaelSalinger and Sara Holbrook
BecauseDigitalWritingMatters by NationalWritingProject
Bring It to Class by Hagood,Alverman,andHeron-Hruby
FreshTakesonTeaching Literary Elements by Jeffrey Wilhelmand Michael W. Smith
The Socially NetworkedClassroomby WilliamKist
The DigitalWritingWorkshop by Troy Hicks
Non-Fiction Titles
Sparky by Beverly Gherman
Janis Joplin:RiseUpSinging by Ann Angel(Amulet Books October2010)
They CalledThemselvestheK.K.K:TheBirthofanAmericanTerrorist Group by Susan
CampbellBartoletti
The Good,The Bad, and The Barbieby Tanya Lee Stone
Had to include these titles—too good to miss (and to categorize):
The Sound of aWild Snail Eating by ElisabethTova Bailey (Just WowforTuesday with
MorrieFans)
This is WhereI LeaveYouby Johnathan Tropper(not forthe kids)
BloodOathby ChristopherFarnsworth(BestYA that’s not YA)
Squirrel SeeksChipmunk: A ModernBestiary by DavidSedaris
ROOMby Emma Donoghue