Verse Novel


The Poet X
Long Way Down
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Crossover
Inside Out & Back Again
Starfish
Clap When You Land
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
Punching the Air
Other Words for Home
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
Alone
Solo
Crank (Crank, #1)
Red, White, and Whole
Louder Than Hunger by John SchuUnsinkable Cayenne by Jessica VitalisAnd Then, Boom! by Lisa FippsHummingbird Season by Stephanie V.W. LucianovicDeep Water by Jamie Sumner
Novel-in-Verse 2024
34 books — 4 voters
May B. by Caroline Starr RoseThe Watch That Ends the Night by Allan WolfInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiEnemies in the Orchard by Dana VanderLugtYellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Historical Fiction Verse Novels
10 books — 9 voters

The Song of Us by Kate FussnerStarfish by Lisa FippsBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonOther Words for Home by Jasmine WargaInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
Middle Grade Novel-in-Verse
104 books — 31 voters
Perfect by Ellen HopkinsCrank by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen HopkinsIdentical by Ellen Hopkins
The Verse Challenge
110 books — 89 voters

October Mourning by Lesléa NewmanNix Minus One by Jill MacLeanGarvey's Choice by Nikki GrimesNothing by Robin FriedmanSharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
Verse Novels for Boys
44 books — 10 voters
Crank by Ellen HopkinsI Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa SchroederIdentical by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen Hopkins
YA Novels in Verse
289 books — 315 voters

Stasia Ward Kehoe
Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future. ...more
Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

Jeannine Atkins
Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

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