YALSA has announced the 2008 Best Books for Young Adults.  It is a long list of great books, and they do select a Top Ten List for the year as well.

I am very happy with the Top Ten List, which includes four of my favorites of the year!

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (though I think it trends more to middle graders but I won’t complain!)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (good to see it not only here but on the children’s notable list as well)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (also on the children’s list!)

The general list is also a wonderful list containing some of my other favorites of the year:

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau
Notes from a Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick