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It's National Library Week , you guys! Time to get to your library, take part in events going on around the nation, and support your local libraries and reading in general. It's also time for the ALA to release the list of Top Ten Frequently Challenged Books of 2011 . And here they are: 1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r  (series), by Lauren Myracle 2.  The Color of Earth  (series), by Kim Dong Hwa 3.  The Hunger Games  trilogy, by Suzanne Collins 4.  My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy , by Dori Hillestad Butler 5.  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , by Sherman Alexie 6.  Alice  (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 7.  Brave New World , by Aldous Huxley  8.  What My Mother Doesn't Know , by Sonya Sones 9.  Gossip Girl  (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar 10.  To Kill a Mockingbird , by Harper Lee I've read 6 of the ten (yay me!) and have my usual pfft! to say in ...

It's New Year's Eve, and I've managed to compile my best of 2011 list. I've come to realize I don't really believe in top tens. They're so limiting. When have I ever been able to fit anything I love into an even ten? So here are my top 14 favorite books of the year. Best of 2011 (in order of publication) River Marked by Patricia Briggs Children of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion House of Silence by Linda Gillard Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins A Lily Among Thorns by Rose Lerner How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater FYI, that's 3 urban fantasies, 4 contemporaries, 2 historicals, 1 fantasy, 1 mystery, 1 m...