YALSA Best Books for YA

• Dreamland Social Club – Altebrando,Tara
•   Tiger Lily – Anderson, Jodi Lynn
•  Forge – Anderson, Laurie Halse
• Split – Avasthi, Swati
• Compromised – Ayarbe, Heidi
•  Ship Breaker – Bacigalupi, Paolo
•  The Drowned Cities – Bacigalupi, Paolo
• Shadow and Bone – Bardugo, Leigh
•  Every Other Day – Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
•   I am J – Beam, Chris
• All the Truth That’s in Me – Berry, Julie
• Chime – Billingsley, Franny
• Red Glove – Black, Holly
•  White Cat – Black, Holly
• Anna Dressed in Blood – Blake, Kendare
• Strings Attached – Blundell, Judy
•  Bronxwood – Booth, Coe
• Cosmic – Boyce, Frank
•  Beauty Queens – Bray, Libba
• The Diviners – Bray, Libba
• The White Bicycle – Brena, Beverley
•  Brooklyn Burning – Brezenoff, Steve
•  Queen of Hearts – Brooks, Martha
•  Liar’s Moon – Bunce, Elizabeth
• Star Crossed – Bunce, Elizabeth
• Stay – Caletti, Deb
•  Etiquette & Espionage – Carriger, Gail
• Bitterblue – Cashore, Kristin
•  Hush – Chayil, Eishes
•  The Demon King – Chima, Cinda Williams
•  Stolen – Christopher, Lucy
• The Wicked and the Just – Coats, Jillian Anderson
•  Leverage – Cohen, Joshua
• Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares – Cohn, Rachel and Levithan, David
• Matched – Condie, Ally
•  Kill Me Softly – Cross, Sarah
•  Graffiti Moon – Crowley, Cath
•  Croak – Damico, Gina
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Danforth, Emily
•  The Maze Runner – Dashner, James
• The Body Finder – Derting, Kimberly
•  What Happened to Goodbye – Dessen, Sarah
•  Wither – DeStefano, Lauren
• Payback Time – Deuker, Carl
• Entwined – Dixon, Heather
• Something Like Normal – Doller, Trish
•  Revolution – Donnelly, Jennifer
• You Against Me – Downham, Jenny
• The Golden Day – Dubosarsky, Ursula
•  Butterfly Clues – Ellison, Kate
• Foul Trouble – Feinstein, John
•  The Dark City – Fisher, Catherine
•  Incarceron – Fisher, Catherine
• Just One Day – Forman, Gayle
•  Where She Went – Forman, Gayle
•  The Midnight Dress – Foxlee, Karen
• Threads and Flames – Friesner, Esther
•  Reckless – Funke, Cornelia
• Ruby Red – Gier, Kerstin
•  I’ll Be There – Goldberg Sloan, Holly
•  BZRK – Grant, Michael
•  Eve & Adam – Grant, Michael and Katherine Applegate
• The Fault in Our Stars – Green, John
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson – Green, John and Levithan, David
• Why We Broke Up – Handler, Daniel
•  Seraphina – Hartman, Rachel
• Crash and Burn – Hassan, Michael
•  The Big Crunch – Hautman, Pete
•  Guardian of the Dead – Healey, Karen
• Girl, Stolen – Henry, April
• Stupid Fast – Herback, Geoff
•  Green Witch – Hoffman, Alice
• The Last Little Blue Envelope – Johnson, Maureen
• The Name of the Star – Johnson, Maureen
• The Immortal Rules – Kagawa, Julie
•  Harmonic Feedback – Kelly, Tara
•  The Heart is Not a Size – Kephart Beth
•  Ask the Passengers – King, A.S.
•  Everybody Sees the Ants – King, A.S.
•   Please Ignore Vera Dietz – King, A.S
• Living with Jackie Chan – Knowles, Jo
•  Scowler – Kraus, Daniel
• The Disenchantments – LaCour, Nina
• Hostage Three – Lake, Nick
• In Darkness – Lake, Nick
• The Brides of Rollrock Island – Lanagan, Margo
•  My Book of Life by Angel – Leavitt, Martine
• Zero – Leveen, Tom
• Every Day – Levithan, David
•  Two Boys Kissing – Levithan, David
•  Real Live Boyfriends: Yes, Boyfriends, Plural, If My Life Wasn’t Complicated I Wouldn’t be Ruby Oliver – Lockhart, E.
•  Legend – Lu, Marie
• Prodigy – Lu, Marie
•  I Hunt Killers – Lyga, Barry
• Hothouse – Lynch, Chris
• Throne of Glass – Maas, Sarah
•  Rot and Ruin – Maberry, Jonathan
•  September Girls – Madison, Bennett
•  Finnikin of the Rock – Marchetta, Melina
•  Froi of the Exiles – Marchetta, Melina
•  Exposed – Marcus, Kimberly
•  The End Games – Martin, T. Michael
•  Hold Me Closer, Necromancer – McBride, Lish
•  Never Fall Down – McCormick, Patricia
•  Cinder – Meyer, Marissa
•  Scarlet – Meyer, Marissa
•  Ashfall – Mullin, Mike
•  Lockdown – Myers, Walter Dean
•  Shine – Myracle, Lauren
• Recovery Road – Nelson, Blake
• The Sky is Everywhere – Nelson, Jandy
•  A Monster Calls – Ness, Patrick
• The False Prince – Nielsen, Jennifer
•   A Confusion of Princes – Nix, Garth
• Crazy – Nolan, Han
•  The False Princess – O’Neal, Eilis
•  Fixing Delilah – Ockler, Sarah
•  Before I Fall – Oliver, Lauren
•  Delirium – Oliver, Lauren
•  Half Brother – Oppel, Kenneth
•  This Dark Endeavor – Oppel, Kenneth
•  Such Wicked Intent – Oppel, Kenneth
•  Woods Runner – Paulsen, Gary
• Guantanamo Boy – Perera, Anna
• Anna and the French Kiss – Perkins, Stephanie
•  Ketchup Clouds – Pitcher, Annabel
•  Lark – Porter, Tracey
•  Dodger – Pratchett, Terry
•  Desert Angel – Price, Charlie
•   Boy 21 - Quick, Matthew
•  Sorta Like a Rock Star – Quick, Matthew
•  Fever Crumb – Reeve, Philip
•  The Things a Brother Knows – Reinhardt, Dana
•   Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Riggs, Ransom
• The Lost Hero – Riordan, Rick
•   Divergent – Roth, Veronica
• Eleanor & Park – Rowell, Rainbow
• Fangirl – Rowell, Rainbow
• Last Night I Sang to the Monster – Saenz, Benjamin
•  This Song Will Save Your Life – Sales, Leila
•   Endangered – Schrefer, Eliot
•  Au Revoir Crazy European Chick – Schreiber, Joe
•  Midwinterblood – Sedgwick, Marcus
•  Revolver – Sedgwick, Marcus
•  White Crow – Sedgwick, Marcus
• Wonderstruck – Selznick, Brian
•  Between Shades of Gray – Sepetys, Ruta
•  Out of the Easy – Sepetys, Ruta
•  The Madman’s Daughter – Shepherd, Megan
•   Scrawl – Shulman, Mark
•  Jasper Jones – Silvey, Craig
• The Hunchback Assignments – Slade Arthur
•  The Marbury Lens – Smith, Andrew
•  Winger – Smith, Andrew
• After Ever After – Sonnenblick, Jordan
• Curveball – Sonnenblick, Jordan
• Confessions of the Sullivean Sisters – Standiford, Natalie
• The Raven Boys – Stiefvater, Maggie
• The Scorpio Races – Stiefvater, Maggie
•  Borderline – Stratton, Allan
•  Crossing the Tracks – Stuber, Barbara
• Golden Boy – Sullivan, Tara
• This is Not a Test – Summers, Courtney
•  Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Taylor, Laini
•  Days of Blood and Starlight – Talor, Laini
•   Nothing – Teller, Janne
•  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Valente, Catherynne
•  The Running Dream – Van Draanen, Wendelin
• The List – Vivian, Siobhan
•  Not That Kind of Girl – Vivian, Siobhan
•  The Final Four – Volponi, Paul
•  Numbers – Ward, Rachel
•  Between – Warman, Jessica
•  The Book of Blood and Shadow – Wasserman, Robin
• Code Name Verity – Wein, Elizabeth
•  Adios, Nirvana – Wesselhoeft, Conrad
• Where Things Come Back – Whaley, Jessica
• The Mockingbirds – Whitney, Daisy
• Miles from Ordinary – Williams, Carol Lynch
•   Beatle Meets Destiny – Williams, Gabrielle
•  In the Shadow of Blackbirds – Winters, Cat
•  Beneath a Meth Moon – Woodson, Jacqueline
•  Black Helicopters – Woolston, Blythe
•  Catch & Release – Woolston, Blythe
•  The 5^th Wave – Yancey, Rick
• The Curse of the Wendigo – Yancey, Rick
• Paper Valentine – Yovanoff, Brenna
•  Blood Red Road – Young, Moira
•  Replacement – Yovanoff, Brenna
• How to Save a Life – Zarr, Sara
•  The Lucy Variations – Zarr, Sara