And the One YA Novel of the Year I Will Read Is . . .

Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor was the runner-up, so I will be reading that as well.  Which is fortunate since I intended to anyway, and now I have an excuse.

In the event that people named more than one book, I simply took their first answer, since it was obviously the first on that came to mind.  Here’s how your votes lay.

Liar by Justine Larbalastier – 5
Marcelo in the Real World by Marcello Stork – 15
Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan – 1
The Ask and the Answer – 2
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson – 3
Going Bovine by Libba Bray – 3
Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines – 1
Forest Born by Shannon Hale – 1
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor – 10
Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon – 1
If I Stay by Gayle Forman – 2
Diary of a Chav by Grace Dent – 1
Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman – 3
As You Wish by Jackson Pearce – 1
The Dreamer: The Consequence of Nathan Hale by Lora Innes – 1
We Were Here by Matt de la Pena – 4
Hold Still by Nina LaCour – 1
Mare’s War by Tanita Davis – 2
The Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan – 1
Maze Runner by James Dashner – 2
In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith – 1
In the Forest of Hands and Teeth – 2
Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney – 1
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley – 2
Flygirl by Sherri Smith
The Devil’s Paintbox by Victoria McKernan
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973 by John Barnes
After by Amy Efaw – 1

I actually already read Lost by Jacqueline Davies, which is why it doesn’t appear on this list.