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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Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
Two Sides to Every Murder
Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)
The Wilderness of Girls
Sleep Like Death
Four Eids and a Funeral
The Calculation of You and Me
We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)
Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)
Wish You Weren't Here
Six More Months of June
Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2)
The Ghost of Us
The Deep Dark
Looking for Smoke
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  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
    The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
    A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
    Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    The Grace Year
    Two Can Keep a Secret
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    You Shouldn't Be Here
    The Gilded Cage (The Prison Healer, #2)
    Catch the Sun
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
    YA Dystopia Novels
    1,726 books — 11,670 voters
    Insurgent by Veronica RothCity of Lost Souls by Cassandra ClareThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenPandemonium by Lauren OliverRapture by Lauren Kate
    YA Novels of 2012
    1,234 books — 10,540 voters

    Lady Midnight by Cassandra ClareGlass Sword by Victoria AveyardHeartless by Marissa MeyerCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoThe Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
    YA Novels of 2016
    1,133 books — 9,673 voters
    City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra ClareThe One by Kiera CassCress by Marissa MeyerIgnite Me by Tahereh MafiThe Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
    YA Novels of 2014
    1,504 books — 9,029 voters

    The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienArtemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
    What To Read After Harry Potter
    2,076 books — 6,673 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
    1,092 books — 7,667 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 Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
    New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)

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