The movie adaptation of Gayle Forman’s 2009 best selling YA title, If I Stay, (Penguin), began production in Vancouver, B.C. this week. The author has been  tweeting her excitement from the set (“Today’s embarrassing #IfIStayMovie Moment: I see Mia’s family house for first time, burst into tears. This makes director @rjcutler happy.”)

The film stars Choe Moretz as Mia (currently as the lead in the movie Carrie); Jamie Blackley (Snow White And The Huntsman, The Fifth Estate) as Adam, the male lead; Mirella Enos as Kat, Mia’s mother; Joshua Leonard as Denny Hall, Mia’s father and Stacy Keach as Gramps. Director R. J Cutler,  is known for his documentaries, including the Emmy-award-winning American High.

Photos from the set have been posted on Examiner.com and  GossipCenter.com.

Kicking off the evaluations of the best books of the year, Publishers Weekly releases its list in the upcoming issue, PW’s 101 Best Books of 2013, including lists of the top ten (featured on the cover is Hanya Yanagihara, author of The People in the Trees, RH/Doubleday).

Amazon could claim to have the first list, since they published their “Best Books of the Year So Far” in June, but we’ll go with this one as the first  list for the full year.

We will  track the lists as they arrive and create a spreadsheet of all the major picks.

PW’s Top Ten, 2013

Fiction

The Good Lord Bird, James McBride, (Penguin/Riverhead); also a National Book Award Finalist

The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees, (Other Press)

Sea of Hooks, Lindsay Hill, (McPherson & Co.)

The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara, (RH/Doubleday; Dreamscape)  

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra, (RH/Hogarth; Thorndike)

Nonfiction

Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, (Nation Books; Blackstone)

Lost Girls, Robert Kolker, (Harper)

Miss Anne in Harlem, Carl Kaplan, (Harper)

Going Clear, Lawrence Wright, (RH/Knopf; RH Audio; BOT), also a National Book Award Finalist

Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward, (Macmillan/Bloomsbury; Thorndike)