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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

That One Book: Our "Best of 2011" Link-Up

Today’s suggested posting topic is “Best of 2011!”
We'd love to have you share some of your favorite books so far this year, and/or the the books being promoted at BEA that you hope will end up among your favorites for the year!

Maybe you're not sure which books are coming out this year or where to look? Take a look at the following resources, find a new favorite or two, perhaps a new favorite publisher and then get writing!

Books at BEA via Edelweiss
The Big Children's Books of BEA
The Big Books of BEA 2011: Adult Titles

Fall 2011 Publisher Catalogs:
Andrews McMeel (Goes directly to pdf)
Candlewick
Capstone
Chronicle Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Goes directly to pdf)
Harlequin (Includes all imprints.)
HarperCollins (Includes all imprints.)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's
Lee & Low Books (Goes directly to pdf.)
Long Tale Press
Macmillan
Mulholland Books
Peachtree Publishers
PicPocket Books
Random House
Random House Kids
Random House Teens
Simon & Schuster
Sourcebooks
Sterling Publishing
Tiger Tales Books
Tribute Books
Unbridled Books (Goes directly to pdf)
Walden Pond Press
The Writer's Coffee Shop (TWCS) Publishing Company
Workman Publishing


Once you're all done come back here to link-up your post and then stop by other Armchair BEA participants to see what they're looking forward to this year. I'm sure you'll be adding to your to-be-read piles in no time!

If you happen to be a publisher wanting your catalog added to the list, please let us know in the comments below or contact us via or email: armchairbea {at} gmail {dot} com

Link-up Example: "Name/nickname" at "Blog name"

46 comments:

Fiktshun said...

Wow, what a tough post. There are just so many great books released and soon to be released that I just know I've missed a ton.

I have a feeling after checking out some of these blogs my reading pile will be growing exponentially!

lisa (the little reader) said...

oops, sorry about that! my linky was broken, but it should be fixed now.

inga said...

It's always difficult to pick the bests. Especially if there are so many of them!

inga from http://www.ingasilbergbooks.com

bex said...

It was definitely difficult picking the favourites! I might have thrown in a series there somewhere in my top 5 list... (a)

Now I'm off to take a look at some bookish posts! :D

Rebecca @ kindle fever

Risa said...

I couldn't pick one...I picked five!

http://breadcrumbreads.blogspot.com/search/label/Armchair%20BEA%202011

Mickey @ imabookshark said...

I picked all my four and five star reads for the year. 18 books, but it was worth it!! Thanks to all who check it out. I will take a look at some when I get home from work tonight :o)

Maidenveil said...

picked my 5 so far. :) though i'm not sure if all of them are going to be promoted in BEA. nevertheless they are really good! :)

Hannah said...

Thanks Armchair BEA You are awesome!

heidi ruby miller said...

I'm having so much fun! And meeting so many great people. So glad a friend suggested this to me.

:) Heidi

Theresa @ Fade Into Fantasy said...

So many great books coming to BEA! So jealous of everyone going, too. LOL

Michelle M said...

Wish I could go to BEA (don't understand why it during the week this year). The list of books I saw from best of children's from BEA looks interesting. Some possibly good stuff from new authors and popular authors. Maybe I can win some ARCs from these authors here?

Donna said...

My giveaway post coincided with the blogging topic today. Instead of me talking about a Book of 2011, though, I have the author talking about her book. (I figure you can read my thoughts on books all the other days of the year).

flashlight_reader said...

It was way to hard to think of my favorite books from this year! It was also fun to see everyone's posts. I got some new ideas for my reading!

My 5 Monkeys(Julie) said...

I picked my best of books so far

Sidne,the BCR said...

okay i'm going to try to do this for the top five so far in 2011. good question.

Semisweet said...

Just finished posting my Best Of... list. Going to go check out what other people have enjoyed, and are looking forward to! : )

Rich Rennicks said...

Enjoying the #armchairBEA hashtag. Please add our fall catalog to your list if you would:

http://unbridledbooks.com/images/uploads/pdfs/UB_Fall2011_Catalog_FINAL.pdf

Thanks,
Rich, Unbridled Books

nightlyreading said...

This one was a little tough because, there are soooo many books that I could have listed!

LC said...

My TBR list is already too long. I'm a little worried what will happen after I get ideas from other blogs...

Marcie said...

This is a lot of fun. I love looking at everyones favorite books.

Ashley @ Book Labyrinth said...

I ended up picking my favourites that I've read this year so far, since thinking about all the awesome books at BEA is just too depressing, haha.

Jen said...

That was harder to put together than I expected! I hope you'll come check out my favorites at Red Hot Books

Wayzgoose said...

Posted about the six great giveaways from Long Tale Press and NWE Signatures. Don't miss your opportunity to get a free eBook copy of Steven George & The Dragon at http://www.armchairbea.com/2011/05/free-book-alert-steven-george-dragon-by.html.

TheJennaGirl said...

The list was tough to narrow down, but I'm happy with my picks! Check it out: http://thebookelement.blogspot.com/2011/05/armchair-bea-day-2-best-of-2011.html

MyNeedToRead said...

This was a really fun post to write. 2011 has got so many great books coming out!

A Backwards Story said...

This was so hard! It took a lot of time to think about what I wanted to list!

Allison said...

I posted my top five. Hard to narrow it down! Can't wait to see everyone else's picks. :)

kathy said...

I love this idea. I'm excited to see everyone's picks. :)

Kristina said...

I posted my 6, breaking it down to 3 adults and 3 YA
Too hard

Tesni said...

I posted five, but it was such a hard list to make! I've read so many good books this year.

Austine said...

Had to narrow the list down to 6 books. Hard to choose, though.

kathy said...

For whoever is moderating today's linky, I was dumb and messed mine up (#160). I re-entered as #186. Could someone delete 160 for me?
Thanks
(not so tech savvy) kathy from Read This Instead

Tif said...

kathy ... I will make the change tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

barmybex said...

So many good books. I picked my top 5 so far! Sure there will be lots more great books to come this year. :D

kaye (paper reader) said...

I'm sure I left so many books off, but it was fun thinking about all the ones I loved and am excited about. I'm definitely going to check a lot of them out later to see!

Tina M.E. said...

I have books I am reading, books I would like to read, and of course, books I have read...I will have to recommend http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/CatalogOverview.aspx?catalogID=21924

Meredith said...

My favorites so far (this was hard): Heist Society by Ally Carter and Sean Griswold's Head by Lindsey Leavitt.

-Meredith

Yvette said...

Okay, I've just posted links to some good books published in 2011 that I've read and reviewed and also a list of 2011 books I'm hoping to read this year sometime.

Lots of good stuff. I'm really looking forward to this year's crop of new books.

My commenting apparatus is still not working - thank you google blogger. I'm hoping it will be back by tomorrow. When I try to comment on my own blog I get kicked off. Nice.

So, please, please bear with me. :)

witchoftheatregoing said...

Too much good stuff this year - so I made a mosaic of some of my faves so far.

artnmakeuplover said...

It was hard picking my favorite books. I think I like too many. I like seeing what everybody has read it gives my a lot of ideas of books that I want to read.

LindsayWrites said...

mine are mostly dystopians! check out my list!

http://lindsaycummingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/armchair-bea-best-of-2011.html

Kristy Sherrod said...

I've got a few that are older, but still looked really good!

http://coffeeandliterature.com/2011/05/best-of-2011-so-far-armchair-bea-day-2/

Laura @ The Shabby Rabbit said...

One of these days I'll have to get around to reading something when it actually comes out :) Having so much fun reading everyone's posts!

bookchilla said...

oh man, just realized my fave books this 2011 are mostly from debut authors :)

http://bookchilla.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/armchairbea-my-best-2011-reads-so-far/

joemmama said...

I only had 5 but forgive me, I have been sick. At least I got the post up....whew

poofbooks said...

I am not always sure what is around the corner in my reading world and the surprises have been some of the best. I did sadly enter this post in the giveaway section first and you will see there is not giveaways in my favs/anticpating post.