Favorite YA Authors (showing 1-14 of 14)

[Lisarenee, your friendly neighborhood moderator comment history]

Who are your favorite Top 10 Young Adult Authors?
If you can't come up with 10 that's okay. You can always add more later.

[Lisarenee, your friendly neighborhood moderator comment history]

Here are mine in no particular order.

1) Suzanne Collins
2) Stephanie Meyers
3) Cassandra Clare
4) Maria V. Snyder
5) Kristen Cashore
6) Louis Lowry
7) P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
8) Tamora Pierce
9) Simone Elkeles
10)Megan Whalen Turner

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1. Sherrilyn Kenyon
2. PC Cast and Kristen Cast
3. Rachel Vincent
4. Maria V Snyder
5. Melissa Marr
6. Rick Riordan
7. Tamora Pierce

[Heather comment history]

Hmm, kinda got a short list:

1) Suzanne Collins
2) Richelle Mead
3) PC Cast & Kristen (the thrill has bone though)
4) Rick Riordan

[Sashana comment history]

1.Richelle Mead <3
2.Tamora Pierce
3.Sarah Dessen
4.Suzanne Collins
5.Simone Elkeles
6.Kristen Cashore
7.Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
8.Jenna Black
9. Claudia Gray
10. Catherine Gilbert Murdock

[Sans comment history]

In no particular order

J.K. Rowling
Kristin Cashore
Emily Whitman
Francesca Lia Block
Robin McKinley
Stephanie Meyer

[Zoe comment history]

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Lesley Livingston
3. Maggie Stiefvater
4. Kelley Armstrong
5. Suzanne Collins
6. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

[Quinn comment history]

1. Tamora Pierce
2. Holly Black
3. Cassandra Clare
4. John Flanagan
5. Robin McKinley
6. Rick Riordan
7. JK Rowling

[Kellyflower comment history]

Simone Elkeles
Carrie Ryan
Lisa McMann
Neal Shusterman
Becca Fitzpatrick
Laura Whitcomb
Gayle Forman

[Sass comment history]

Tamora Pierce
Louisa May Alcott
J.K. Rowling
Lili St. Crow
Kristin Cashore
Libby Hathorn
John Marsden

[Rachel comment history]

In no particular order and more to come later...

John Green
Stephen King
Nicholas Sparks
J.K. Rowling
P.C. Cast
Kristin Cashore

[Sashana comment history]

Rachel wrote: "In no particular order and more to come later...

John Green
Stephen King
Nicholas Sparks
J.K. Rowling
P.C. Cast
Kristin Cashore"

I really need to give John Green another chance.

[Rachel comment history]

I didn't think I would like him and passed up his novels for a long time. Now I can't believe I waited as long as I did.

[Janet comment history]

In no particular order, here are top-notch YA authors I haven't seen as much on this thread yet:

1. Tamora Pierce
2. Robin McKinley
3. Neil Gaiman
4. Cindy Pon
5. Jordan Dane
6. Lauren Myracle
7. Antony John
8. Maria Snyder
9. Scott Westerfeld
10. Dawn Cook (earlier pen name of Kim Harrison)

MG/YA
1. Lian Tanner
2. Maryrose Wood
3. L.A. Meyer
4. Diana Wynne Jones