Young Adult

Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 13 to 18.

Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct attributes that distinguish it from the other age categories of fiction. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. The
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
The Last Bloodcarver
The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
What Monstrous Gods
The Summer She Went Missing
Icarus
The Other Lola
One Last Breath
The Marble Queen
The Encanto's Daughter
Dead Girls Walking
Clever Creatures of the Night
In the Orbit of You
  • The Merciless King of Moore High by Lily  Sparks
    The Merciless King of Moore High
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    Release date: Apr 23, 2024
    When the adults of Brockton, Connecticut, morphed into gigantic, bloodthirsty monsters nine months ago, the students at Jefferson High barricaded them ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Mar 23 - Apr 22, 2024

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  • Homebody by Theo Parish
    Homebody

    Release date: Apr 23, 2024
    In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Mar 25 - Apr 22, 2024

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  • Dark Parts of the Universe by Samuel       Miller
    Dark Parts of the Universe

    Release date: Apr 23, 2024
    Outer Banks meets Bone Gap in New York Times bestselling author Samuel Miller’s propulsive and genre-bending YA mystery, following a group of teenager ...more
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    The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
    If Only I Had Told Her
    Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
    Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
    The Tearsmith
    Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    The Grace Year
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    The Gilded Cage (The Prison Healer, #2)
    Graceling by Kristin CashoreThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasAlanna by Tamora PiercePoison Study by Maria V. SnyderVampire Academy by Richelle Mead
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    4,200 books — 19,785 voters
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    Indie Authors to Watch
    7,371 books — 7,216 voters

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
    YA Dystopia Novels
    1,711 books — 11,657 voters
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Giver by Lois Lowry
    Best Young Adult Books
    12,678 books — 83,563 voters

    City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince by Cassandra ClareForever by Maggie StiefvaterSilence by Becca FitzpatrickPassion by Lauren Kate
    YA Novels of 2011
    1,110 books — 7,074 voters
    Lord of Shadows by Cassandra ClareKing's Cage by Victoria AveyardCaraval by Stephanie GarberCarve the Mark by Veronica RothFlame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
    YA Novels of 2017
    1,093 books — 7,673 voters

    The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
    Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
    Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Divergent (Divergent, #1)
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
    New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)

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