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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A Fragile Enchantment
The Getaway List
The Invocations
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
Most Ardently
Dungeons and Drama
These Deadly Prophecies
Once a Queen
Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of the Last Kingdom, #2)
Sky's End (Above the Black, #1)
Evergreen
A Place for Vanishing
The Atlas of Us
Stay with My Heart
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  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    If Only I Had Told Her
    The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
    A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
    Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
    Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    The Grace Year
    Heartless Hunter (Crimson Moth, #1)
    Two Can Keep a Secret
    The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
    The Gilded Cage (The Prison Healer, #2)
    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 — 7,079 voters

    The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra ClareUntitled by Leigh BardugoRequiem by Maggie StiefvaterUntitled by Stephanie PerkinsThe World of Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
    Most Exciting Upcoming YA Books
    140 books — 17,660 voters
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Truth About Forever by Sarah DessenJust Listen by Sarah Dessen
    Young Adult Romance
    3,855 books — 9,523 voters

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonIf I Stay by Gayle Forman
    Best Teen Books About Real Problems
    2,935 books — 13,292 voters
    Winter by Marissa MeyerRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Heir by Kiera CassSix of Crows by Leigh BardugoFairest by Marissa Meyer
    YA Novels of 2015
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    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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