The 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced.  This is the third year they have done awards based on user voting.  So this will be a list of very popular titles mostly.  Goodreads is my go-to social media book site and I use it on a daily basis, something you know if you ever have clicked on an image or title on my blog, since they almost all take you directly to Goodreads (so you can add them to your reading list!) 

Perhaps one of the reasons I feel so at home at Goodreads is that they seem to have a lot of YA and children’s lit folks there.  In fact, the book of the year is a YA book.  So here are the top books for the YA and children’s, which include the top author and top book overall too:

Favorite Book of the Year and Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Divergent by Veronica Roth

 

Best Graphic Novel

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

 

Best Middle Grade and Children’s

The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

 

Best Picture Book

When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic, illustrated by Wes Hargis

 

Best Young Adult Fiction

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

 

Best Author

Cassandra Clare