I am on a hunt, my friends! I'm on the teen blogger team for Barnes & Noble, and I have been tasked with finding my favorite YA books of 2016. (By the way, you should check out our latest post here! *end shameless self-promotion*) I already have 4 favorites so far -- [b:Phantom Limbs|23617206|Phantom Limbs|Paula Garner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463595181s/23617206.jpg|43222389], [b:The Serpent King|22752127|The Serpent King|Jeff Zentner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1435673762s/22752127.jpg|42298618], [b:We Are the Ants|23677341|We Are the Ants|Shaun David Hutchinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1425574151s/23677341.jpg|43285034], and [b:Highly Illogical Behavior|26109391|Highly Illogical Behavior|John Corey Whaley|https://images.gr-assets

.com/books/1447262135s/26109391.jpg|46054780] -- but I want to see if I can come up with some more favorites that are not "moving contemporaries that involve teenage guys overcoming their obstacles and realizing that they are the masters of their future", because literally all 4 books are the exact same type. Not that they're not totally amazing, because they are! But I've embarked on an adventure to read all the most-anticipated and most-hyped 2016 releases that I can get my hands on, and that adventure starts with [b:Girl Against the Universe|22297294|Girl Against the Universe|Paula Stokes|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/