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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The House Saphir
Coldwire (Coldwire, #1)
Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)
Witchlight (The Witchlands, #5)
My Roommate From Hell
A Fate So Cold (A Fate So Cold, #1)
The Cuffing Game
Deadly Ever After
I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends
Red as Royal Blood
Gilded in Vengeance
We're Not Safe Here
The Secret Astronomers
Reasons We Break
How Girls Are Made
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    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    The Gilded Cage (The Prison Healer, #2)
    Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
    Holly (Belladonna, #3.5)
    Falling Like Leaves (Bramble Falls, #1)
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    The Same Backward as Forward (The Inheritance Games, #0)
    Invisible
    Grim and Oro (Lightlark)
    The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
    The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures #1)
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    YA Dystopia Novels
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    2,931 books — 6,319 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
    1,431 books — 8,317 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
    2,980 books — 12,436 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
    1,239 books — 10,183 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 Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
    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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