2012 YA Contemporary Challenge!
Young adult books set in contemporary times.
1 The Fault in Our Stars
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4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 227,482 ratings
2 The Statistical Probability...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 26,424 ratings
3 My Life Next Door
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 15,500 ratings
4 Graffiti Moon
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 7,904 ratings
5 The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
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3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 4,928 ratings
6 Easy
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 67,380 ratings
7 Wanderlove
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 4,521 ratings
8 Second Chance Summer
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 4,695 ratings
9 Bittersweet
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 4,210 ratings
10 In Honor
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
11 Fracture (Fracture, #1)
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 5,277 ratings
12 Why We Broke Up
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 14,974 ratings
13 Keep Holding On
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 3,752 ratings
14 The One That I Want
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3,910 ratings
15 The Story of Us
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
16 A Midsummer's Nightmare
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 4,780 ratings
17 The Disenchantments
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 3,449 ratings
18 First Comes Love (First Com...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
19 Someone Else's Life
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,027 ratings
20 Don't Breathe a Word
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
21 Beautiful Disaster (Beautif...
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 121,433 ratings
22 Thirteen Reasons Why
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 145,009 ratings
23 Such a Rush
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 6,355 ratings
24 The List
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3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
25 The Vincent Boys (The Vince...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 26,917 ratings
26 Pushing the Limits (Pushing...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 26,479 ratings
27 Something Like Normal
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 6,739 ratings
28 Being Friends with Boys
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3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,653 ratings
29 Where It Began
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
30 Take a Bow
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
31 The Vincent Brothers (The V...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 16,216 ratings
32 The Hunger Games (The Hunge...
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4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 1,580,951 ratings
33 This Is So Not Happening (H...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
34 Try Not to Breathe
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
35 Unbreak My Heart
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,656 ratings
36 One Moment
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
37 Dead to You
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 3,104 ratings
38 Breaking Beautiful
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
39 Waiting
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
40 Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
41 The Princesses of Iowa
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 981 ratings
42 Because of Low (Sea Breeze,...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 18,125 ratings
43 Pizza, Love, and Other Stuf...
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 365 ratings
44 Ditched: A Love Story
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
45 In Too Deep
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 635 ratings
46 While It Lasts (Sea Breeze,...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 17,876 ratings
47 7 Clues to Winning You
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 763 ratings
48 Pretty Crooked (Pretty Croo...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 995 ratings
49 Belles (Belles, #1)
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
50 Gone, Gone, Gone
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 808 ratings
51 Where You Are (Between the ...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 10,625 ratings
52 The Waiting Sky
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 660 ratings
53 What a Boy Wants (What a Bo...
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 6,002 ratings
54 The Miseducation of Cameron...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
55 52 Reasons to Hate My Father
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
56 Shooting Stars
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
57 The Summer My Life Began
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 537 ratings
58 Who I Kissed
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 437 ratings
59 The Raft
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3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
60 Pieces of Us
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 598 ratings
61 Life is But a Dream
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 421 ratings
62 Never Enough
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 582 ratings
63 Reunited
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 664 ratings
64 The Next Door Boys (Next Do...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 966 ratings
65 The Starboard Sea
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
66 Adorkable
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
67 My Life in Black and White
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
68 Don't You Wish
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 566 ratings
69 Love? Maybe
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
70 Good For You (Between the L...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 7,927 ratings
71 34 Pieces of You
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 491 ratings
72 Burn for Burn (Burn for Bur...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
73 Purity
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
74 Every Day
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 17,607 ratings
75 The Queen of Kentucky
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 501 ratings
76 The Unquiet
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 793 ratings
77 Tilt
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 3,190 ratings
78 Freshman Year & Other Unnat...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
79 Perfect Escape
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 673 ratings
80 Skinny
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
81 Taking Chances (Taking Chan...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 16,808 ratings
82 Never Eighteen
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 886 ratings
83 What Happens Next
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
84 The Boy on Cinnamon Street
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
84 Blue Sky Days
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 196 ratings
86 From What I Remember...
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
87 The Edumacation of Jay Baker
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 230 ratings
88 The Rivals (The Mockingbird...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 488 ratings
89 Crash (Crash, #1)
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 20,186 ratings
90 Slide (Slide, #1)
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
91 Thou Shalt Not Road Trip
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3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 302 ratings
92 Guitar Notes
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 617 ratings
93 Getting Over Garrett Delaney
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
94 Before You Go
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3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 269 ratings
94 Cracked
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 746 ratings
96 Smashed
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3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 247 ratings
96 Survive
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 997 ratings
98 All These Lives
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 454 ratings
99 Kiss Crush Collide
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3.01 of 5 stars 3.01 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
100 The International Kissing Club
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Hazal (The Book to my Heart) Some of these books that have been added haven't been published in 2012. For example, Why We Broke Up and You Are Here.


message 2: by Katie (new)

Katie Hazal wrote: "Some of these books that have been added haven't been published in 2012. For example, Why We Broke Up and You Are Here."

You Are Here has been removed but Why We Broke Up counts because it was originally supposed to be published in January 2012 but was pushed up to Dec. 27, 2011.


Hazal (The Book to my Heart) Ok, thank you for the clarification.


message 4: by Angel (new)

Angel Hi. I'm new to this, so forgive me for the stupidest question you will ever hear. What makes a book a contemporary? other than it being published in 2012. English isn't my first language, but according to dictionaries, it means that the events are occurring in the same time (nowadays). However, I find that they are more romance genre, which makes me confused...


message 5: by Rogier (new)

Rogier added 2 books


message 6: by Loretta (new)

Loretta Catching Jordan came out in 2011 right?


message 7: by Cordelia (new)

Cordelia Schiller Gosh I've barely read any of these, but Angel is right they all look like the same kind of book!


message 8: by Loretta (new)

Loretta Ok, SOME of these are not even Contemp.
Delirum?
The Hunger Games?
You know, the ones that are not YA Contemp.


message 9: by Meem (new)

Meem Two-Way Street
Kiss Crush Collide
The Next Door Boys
The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy: The Summer I Turned Pretty; It's Not Summer Without You; We'll Always Have Summer
Leaving Paradise
Return to Paradise
Catching Jordan
The Vincent Boys
Why We Broke Up


message 10: by Meem (new)

Meem And that's just the first page.


message 11: by Andrea (new)

Andrea Do books that were selfpublished before 2012 but later were traditionally published in 2012 count? (like The Vincent Boys, for example)
There's also a few books that came out in ebook in 2011 but in paperback on 2012 and there's Graffiti Moon (published in Australia in 2010)...


Maddison - the geek loves books_ i think comtemopary it means it doesn't involve vampires or mermaids anything like that.


message 13: by Farah (new)

Farah The Hunger Games is not contemporary.


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