Top 100 YA books of all time

I thank Nomes for giving me today's topic. Below is the list of 100 top YA books of all time as polled by Persnickety Snark. I indicated in pink those that I've read and my rating (1-5 stars) for each.

1.The Hunger Games*****	Suzanne Collins
2.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*****	J.K. Rowling
3.To Kill a Mockingbird*****	Harper Lee
4.Speak*****	Laurie Halse Anderson
5.Northern Lights	Philip Pullman
6.The Truth About Forever****	Sarah Dessen
7.The Book Thief*****	Markus Zusak
8.The Outsiders*****	S.E. Hinton
9.Twilight*****	Stephenie Meyer
10.This Lullaby***	Sarah Dessen
11.Looking for Alaska*****	John Green
12.Just Listen*****	Sarah Dessen
13.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*****	J.K. Rowling
14.Little Women****	Louisa May Alcott
15.City of Bones****	Cassandra Clare
16.On the Jellicoe Road*****	Melina Marchetta
17.The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
18.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*****	J.K. Rowling
19.The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky
20.Along for the Ride	Sarah Dessen
21.Shiver*****	Maggie Stiefvater
22.Vampire Academy	Richelle Mead
23.Graceling****	Kristin Cashore
24.Thirteen Reasons Why*****	Jay Asher
25.Sloppy Firsts	Megan McCafferty
26.The Lord of the Rings****	J.R.R. Tolkien
27.Alanna: The First Adventure	Tamora Pierce
28.Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
29.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*****	J.K. Rowling
30.Uglies***	Scott Westerfeld
31.A Great and Terrible Beauty	Libba Bray
32.Tomorrow, When the War Began	John Marsden
33.The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks	E. Lockhart
34.Pride and Prejudice****	Jane Austen
35.The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin
36.Paper Towns****	John Green
37.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire****	J.K. Rowling
38.Catching Fire*****	Suzanne Collins
39.A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Betty Smith
40.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*****	Sherman Alexie
41.Lock and Key	Sarah Dessen
42.The Amber Spyglass	Philip Pullman
43.Evernight***	Claudia Gray
44.Sabriel	Garth Nix
45.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*****	J.K. Rowling
46.Beautiful Creatures	Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
47.Forever	Judy Blume
48.I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith
49.Ella Enchanted	Gail Carson Levine
50.The Princess Diaries	Meg Cabot
51.Stargirl	Jerry Spinelli
52.Howl's Moving Castle	Diana Wynne Jones
53.The Dark is Rising	Susan Cooper
54.Hush, Hush***	Becca Fitzpatrick
55.Saving Francesca*****	Melina Marchetta
56.Second Helpings	Megan McCafferty
57.Dreamland*****	Sarah Dessen
58.Eclipse****	Stephenie Meyer
59.Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
60.Fire	Kristin Cashore
61.The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
62.Weetzie Bat	Francesca Lia Block
63.The Diary of a Young Girl****	Anne Frank
64.Looking for Alibrandi	Melina Marchetta
65.How I Live Now*****	Meg Rosoff
66.City of Glass*****	Cassandra Clare
67.Keeping the Moon	Sarah Dessen
68.Breaking Dawn****	Stephenie Meyer
69.Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison
70.If I Stay*****	Gayle Forman
71.The King of Attolia	Megan Whalen Turner
72.Wintergirls*****	Laurie Halse Anderson
73.Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	Robin McKinley
74.The Blue Sword	Robin McKinley
75.Feed	M.T. Anderson
76.The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants	Ann Brashares
77.Go Ask Alice	Anonymous
78.Wicked Lovely*****	Melissa Marr
79.Lord of the Flies*****	William Golding
80.Someone Like You	Sarah Dessen
81.The Forest of Hands and Teeth*****	Carrie Ryan
82.Jacob Have I Loved****	Katherine Paterson
83.The Knife of Never Letting Go	Patrick Ness
84.Poison Study	Maria V. Snyder
85.Shadow Kiss	Richelle Mead
86.The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi
87.An Abundance of Katherines****	John Green
88.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon
89.A Ring of Endless Light	Madeleine L'Engle
90.Glass Houses	Rachel Caine
91.The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Partycurrent read	M.T. Anderson
92.Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech
93.Whale Talk	Chris Crutcher
94.Perfect Chemistry	Simone Elkeles
95.Going Too Far	Jennifer Echols
96.The Last Song	Nicholas Sparks
97.Before I Fall	Lauren Oliver
98.Hatchet	Gary Paulsen
99.The Pigman	Paul Zindel
100.The Hero and the Crown	Robin McKinley

My tallies:
read 16 of the top 20
read 45 of the total list

Interestingly, one of the books, Hatchet, my son just read for his 4th grade class! Guess I'll have to read it now too. :) What surprises me most, as others have said is the number of Sarah Dessen books. I like Sarah Dessen, she's a reliable author that I'll always pick up when I see her on sale, but I don't eagerly await each one. So again, kind of surprising. I like this list as it shows me what I'm really missing. Will definitely pick up Northern Lights and Perks of being a Wallflower. There are a lot of others that I've been meaning to read as well. What a great list to go from!

On a different note, I didn't quite make it to 5K this weekend - was 200 words shy of my goal. I was just too tired last night, my eyes were falling asleep and when you're reading and realize that you've gone three pages without cutting a single thing it means either you haven't been paying attention or you're just that good. I know it's not the latter, so I put the manuscript away and will get back to it tonight. I'm fairly confident that I can get through the entire manuscript without deleting any actual scenes because I've cut 5000 words so far and I'm halfway through the manuscript, so it should work out exactly perfect. It amazes me how much tighter it is (and I know it can probably be even tighter). It also amazes me just how long it takes. I cut 3000 words this weekend in about 20 hours - that's 150 words an hour!! My goal now is to get that second 5K done by next Sunday. Hey, it could happen. :)

What did you do this weekend? And what do you think of the list? Share!