The final critics picks of best kids and YA books are now in and we can declare which lists are the longest and which are have the most unique selections.

Below are the recently added lists:

Booklist  — 53 picks

Entertainment Weekly Best Kids Books (Not available online) — 6 picks (for more on this list, see our earlier post, A Favorite Best Picture Books List)

Huffington Post  — 21 picks

Kirkus — Teen —  50 picks

Time Magazine Top Ten YA & Childrens  — 10 picks

The Wall Street Journal —  10 picks

We’ve added these titles to our downloadable spreadsheet, bringing the list to 285 titles:

2015 Best Books Chikdrebs & YA, V. 3

The most number of selections, by a long shot, comes from Kirkus, with 160 total titles. Given that number, it’s no surprise that it’s also the list with the most unique selections, 97 titles. However, it’s also the most in terms of percentage; 60% of the entire list.

The next closest in terms of percentage is Time magazine’s, but on  a much shorter list. Of their ten picks, half of were single picks:

Juman Malouf, The Trilogy of Two (Penguin/Putnam) -- Time, #8

David Levithan, Hold Me Closer, (Penguin/Dutton) -- Time, #5

Eric Carle, The Nonsense Show -- Time, #6Eric Carle, The Nonsense Show -- Time, #6

Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend (Penguin/Dial) -- Time, #7

Dr Seuss, What Pet Should I Get? (Random Houae) -- Time, #9

David Levithan,  Hold Me Closer, (Penguin/Dutton) — Time, #5

Eric Carle, The Nonsense Show — Time, #6

Michelle Cuevas,  Confessions of an Imaginary Friend (Penguin/Dial) — Time, #7

Juman Malouf, The Trilogy of Two (Penguin/Putnam) — Time, #8

Dr Seuss, What Pet Should I Get? (Random Houae) — Time, #9

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