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Top 10 Cheerful, Bleak, Highbrow and Accessible YA Books

Top 10 Cheerful Books

Because sometimes that wrapped-in-cotton-wool feeling is what you crave.
  1. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2001) by Terry Pratchett    

  2. Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero (2009) by Dan Abnett    

  3. The Bride That Time Forgot (2010) by Paul Magrs    

  4. The Dragon Keeper (2009) by Robin Hobb    

  5. Wintersmith (2006) by Terry Pratchett    

  6. Making Money (2007) by Terry Pratchett    

  7. Mister Monday (2003) by Garth Nix    

  8. Heat Stroke (2004) by Rachel Caine    

  9. Grim Tuesday (2004) by Garth Nix    

  10. Coraline (2002) by Neil Gaiman    

   






   


Top 10 Bleak Books

For those times when a dose of pessimism is just what the executioner ordered.
  1. The Left Hand Of God (2010) by Paul Hoffman    

  2. The Blade Itself (2006) by Joe Abercrombie    

  3. Pretty Little Dead Things (2010) by Gary McMahon    

  4. Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes    

  5. Dead Bad Things (2011) by Gary McMahon    

  6. Best Served Cold (2009) by Joe Abercrombie    

  7. A Serpent Uncoiled (2011) by Simon Spurrier    

  8. Bloody War (2011) by Terry Grimwood    

  9. The Last Four Things (2011) by Paul Hoffman    

  10. Before They Are Hanged (2007) by Joe Abercrombie    

Top 10 Highbrow Reads

Not necessarily the most highbrow books I've reviewed, but the best ones.
  1. The End Of The Line (2010) by Jonathan Oliver    

  2. Shades of Grey (2010) by Jasper Fforde    

  3. Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero (2009) by Dan Abnett    

  4. Toxin: The Cunning Of Bacterial Poisons (2005) by Alistair Lax    

  5. Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute (2011) by Jonathan L. Howard    

  6. Quantum (2008) by Manjit Kumar    

  7. Johannes Cabal the Detective (2010) by Jonathan L. Howard    

  8. Learning The World (2005) by Ken Macleod    

  9. Johannes Cabal The Necromancer (2009) by Jonathan L. Howard    

  10. Restoration (2011) by Guy Adams    

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Top 10 Accessible YA Books

  1. Mister Monday (2003) by Garth Nix    

  2. Grim Tuesday (2004) by Garth Nix    

  3. Eldest (2005) by Christopher Paolini    

  4. Atlas' Revenge (2005) by Robyn and Tony DiTocco    

  5. Eragon (2002) by Christopher Paolini    

  6. Shadowmagic (2008) by John Lenahan    

  7. Pawn of Prophecy (1982) by David Eddings    

  8. Queen of Sorcery (1982) by David Eddings    

  9. The Thirteenth (2009) by G. L. Twynham    

  10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) by J. K. Rowling