Nerds Heart YA Shortlist

Nerds Heart YA is on its way. 16, underpublicized young adult books will go head to head in a bracket style tournament to the death (or possibly something less awful). Reading is due to commence on June 1st and I’m judging in the first round! The books that made the shortlist are below and the two in bold are the ones I’ll be reading:

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before by David Yoo
The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine by April Lurie
My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
Alive and Well in Prague, New York by Daphne Grab
I Know It's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
The Screwed up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson
The Shape of Water by Anne Spollen
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
The City in the Lake by Rachel Neumeier
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers
Feathered by Laura Kasischke
Leftovers by Laura Wiess
The Opposite of Invisible by Liz Gallagher

Becky has a post featuring all the book covers flying merrily through the air and the full list of judges.
So what do you think, did we get make the right selection?