The Best of Aussie YA - Wrap Up

About the mini series & best of Aussie YA current give-away

in case you missed it:

 1 - Tye from The Book Gryffin

2 - Steph from My Girl Friday

3 - Jess from The Tales Compendium

4 Nic from Irresistible Reads

5 - Vee from Musty Pages

Me: 9 favourite Aussie books this year

Me: 5 of my all-time fave Aussie authors

I so loved hearing from everyone what Aussie YA books they love, hey. Hope you guys did too. Here's a visual of all the books featured in this series ~ all the recommendations on one funky inspirational post :)

Thank you SO much to all my guest posters ~ and all my enthusiastic commenters. I love how you guys get just as pumped about Aussie YA as me :)

And, hey, the rest of this post is just one long scroll of awesomeness ;)

From Ty:

My Girl Friday:

Jess:

From Nic:

From Vee:

From Me :) 

Also, a couple of people were asking where to buy Aussie YA internationally. Honestly, it's tough. I do know The Book Depository only stocks some titles ~ in case you were interested I made a list of what titles they stock that were mentioned in this series.

A couple more asked where to start with Jaclyn Moriarty. I always recommend either: Finding Cassie Crazy (also published as The Year of Secret Assignments) OR Feeling Sorry for Celia

Will announce two winners of the Aussie YA give-away tomorrow. You can still enter here. All titles in the give-away are from books featured in this series

The following titles mentioned in this mini series are available through The Book Depository with free international postage:

• Beatle Meets Destiny
• I am the Messenger
• The Book Thief
• Jellicoe Road
• The Piper's Son (pre-order for March 2011)
• Looking For Alibrandi
• Saving Francesca
• Finnikin of the Rock
• Pink (Aussie edition available/US hard cover on pre-order)
• My Big Birkett (also published as The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly Completely Lost it)
• Everything Beautiful
• Feeling Sorry For Celia (plus all of Jaclyn Morairty's books)
• Guitar Highway Rose
• So Much To Tell You
• Tomorrow When the War Began (plus complete series)
• Beautiful Malice
• John Belushi is Dead
• Stolen
• One Whole and Perfect Day - Judith Clarke
• In Ecstasy Kate McCafferty
• Grace - Morris Gleitzman (pre-order for March 2011)
• Once - Morris Gleitzman
• Thursdays Child - Sonya Hartnett
• Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett
• The Simple Gift
• By the River
• Cold Skin
• most of Kirsty Murray's books

ALSO the ever-so-lovely Chachic just brought Better World Books to my attention. Another book shop with FREE international postage. They also stock second hand titles ~ which is BRILLIANT as you can get older and out of print titles, sometimes at a bargain price. I haven't spent much time dawdling around on there, but it could have some Aussie gems and might be worth checking out :) (I already found an out of print New Zealand YA book I have been desperate to get my hands on...)

Peace out,

Nomes xo