Goodreads tells me I read 165 books this year.  I believe that qualifies me to give out the following awards.

Best book to combine Shakespeare, baseball and poetry:

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
Ron Roertge

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Best book I read and greatly enjoyed, only to find when I posted my review that I had already read it:

A History of Love
Nicole Krauss

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Best book of suddenly orphaned girl:

The Beginning of After
Jennifer Castle

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Prettiest book with also interesting plot:

Wintertown
Stephen Emond

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Best book set firmly in the Midwest that also includes twins:

Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

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Best title that might repel people as much as draw them in (and they should be drawn in, it’s a fabulous book):

Sex and Violence
Carre Mesrobian

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Best book narrated by a chorus of gay men (trust me, it works):

Two Boys Kissing:
David Levithan

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Best title, hands down:

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Meg Medina

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Best book that covers, among other things, a Supreme Court Justice buying underwear:

My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayer

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Title I just liked to say:

Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets
Evan Roskos

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Book I mistakenly thought was set in Maine and thus was confused for most of the book:
and
Mock Printz winner I was incredibly unimpressed with, but which has stuck with me, so perhaps that was just sour grapes:

Midwinter Blood
Marcus Sewick

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Best book to handily combine many plot points into one engrossing story:

The Living
Matt de la Pena

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I don’t really believe in guilty pleasures, but this is one:

Divergent
Veronica Roth

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The sequel falls apart award:

Insurgent
Veronica Roth

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Best book written by someone I talk to regularly:
and
Best book to have a harrowing opening scene:

Rules for Becoming a Legend
Timothy S. Lane

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Book that made me laugh like a crazy person:

Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh

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Longest book I read this year (so says Goodreads):
and
Most fascinating book I read this year:

The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

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Best book with a princess who has to deal with all the really boring princess stuff:

Handbook for Dragonslayers
Merrie Haskell

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Best nonfiction I read this year:
and
Best insight into transgender youth I’ve read:

Beyond Magenta
Susan Kuklin

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Funniest YA that I got tired of halfway through (but am still recommending because of the great boy humor):

Grasshopper Jungle
Andrew Smith

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Book of essays I enjoyed so much I bought it for my mother:

Lessons From the Borderland
Bette Lynch Hustead

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Best book about book creation and artist process:

The Scraps Book
Lois Ehlert

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Quiet, beautifully written (and short!)

The Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean Greer

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Best coming of age without “boyfriend” as the prize:

This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales

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Best middle reader with poetry that really tells a story:

The Crossover
Kwame Alexander

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Best Veronica Mars novel:

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
Thomas/Graham

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Best best friends growing apart:

Mostly Good Girls
Leila Sales

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Best cover that beckons and holds a great middle reader:

The Nightingale’s Nest
Nikki Loftin

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 Best book to not plan on doing anything after you finish:
and
Best book to not read about, just read:

We Were Liars
E. Lockheart

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Best “Romeo & Juliet” with the Berlin Wall as the thing that keeps them apart:

Going Over
Beth Kephart

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Best “bully” book, from the point of view of the bully:

Tease
Amanda Maciel

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Best book about an elephant seal:

Elizabeth, Queen of the Sea
Cox/Floca

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Best series to get me hooked (that is already finished, so I could just tear through them):

The Boyfriend List/The Boy Book/The Treasure Map of Boys/Real Life Boyfriends
E. Lockheart

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Picture book that had me laughing the loudest:

Sparky!
Offill/Appelhans

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Best title, pranks, and feminist book:

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landeau-Banks
E. Lockheart

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Other best title
and
Bonus Cambridge, Mass. setting

Mister Posterior & the Genius Child
Emily Jenkins

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Best author to get me to read nearly ALL her books in the span of two months:

E. Lockheart/Emily Jenkins

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Picture book that made me laugh until I cried:

Here Comes the Easter Cat
Underwood/Rueda

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Title I thought completely wasted on this middle reader (it’s much better for a YA book):

Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
John Boyne

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Middle reader I thought was the second in a series, but it turns out was just written that way:

The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson

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Book that made this feminist spitting mad/dispirited:

The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstand

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Best book about so much more than hiking:

Wild
Cheryl Strayed

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YA title that sounded inappropriate, but was very vanilla:

Sloppy Firsts
Megan McCafferty

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Rainbow Rowell book that was published this year that I loved (because RR is awesome):

Landlines
Rainbow Rowell

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Book that is incredibly awesome for 66% of its pages and then sucks it up for the last 33:

Say What You Will
Cammie McGovern

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Best book about the Russian Revolution:
and
Best reminder that it’s never a good idea to have a disinterested Czar/King:

The Family Romanov
Candice Fleming

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Craziest Premise:

Noggin
John Corey Whaley

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Second best series to get me hooked:

Megan McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts/Second Helpings/Charmed Thirds/Fourth Comings/Perfect Fifths
Megan McCafferty

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Best Memoir:

Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch

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Best re-read before a movie:

If I Stay
Gayle Forman

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Best historical fiction mixed with Norwegian Folk Tales:

West of the Moon
Margi Preus

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Best book I couldn’t put down:

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

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Best Graphic Novel set in Canada:

This One Summer
Tamaki/Tamaki

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Best essays by a woman who Tweets more than anyone I follow and has a Channing Tatum fixation similar to mine:

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

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Forgettable title hiding a fabulous Hurricane Katrina story:

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Julie T. Lamana

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Best graphic novel with a deaf main character:

El Deafo
Cece Bell

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One of the few poetry-telling-story books that actually worked (and I read a lot of them):

Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson

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Best book I love, that most people in the Kenton Library Book Group did not like:

American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld

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Best book about a Montana mining town:

Work Song
Ivan Doing

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Best book with dragons set in Canada:
and
Best purposely misleading title:

The Story of Owen
E. K. Johnston

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Best book of photos from the 1970s:

In the American West
Richard Avedon

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Best stuck-with-a-sibling book:

Sisters
Raina Talgemeier

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Book that needs an editor STAT:

Egg & Spoon
Gregory Maguire

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Picture book I loved, even though it got a song from Oklahoma! stuck in my head:

The Farmer and the Clown
Marla Frazee

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Solid ending to the trilogy:

Isla & the Happily Ever After
Stephanie Perkins

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Best book with supernatural stuff set in Maine:
and
Third book this year to get me to read EVERYTHING the author has written:

Firebug
List McBride

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Best feminist graduating from high school:
and
Best title:
(If I’ve already given that award, it’s best title with an apostrophe)

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
A.S. King

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Book I didn’t want to read, but loved:

Girls Like Us
Gail Giles

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Best first half of a book:
(I assume the rest of the story is contained in its sequel?)

Ambassador
William Alexander

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Best 30s-style adventure story set in multiple countries:

Vango
Timothee de Fombelle

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Best convenience store conversation:

100 Sideways Miles
Andrew Smith

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Best book with a necromancer:

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Lish McBride

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Best book set in my neck of the woods:

Lean on Pete
Willy Vlautin

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Best discussable book:

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Maya Van Wagenen

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Best pizza delivery girl:

Please Ignore Viera Dietz
A.S. King

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Best fictional trans character:

Gracefully Grayson
Ami Polonsky

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Best book with a foster mother in it:

Kinda Like Brothers
Coe Booth

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Feel free to leave your own awards in comments.