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This list features the YA texts that have been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018. While middle grades texts are also very important, YALMC (list creator) exists to support and further the cause of YA, so we're focusing on those texts in this list!
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
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Jenny Han (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,045,040 ratings
score: 595,
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The Pearl Thief
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 8,077 ratings
score: 543,
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6 people voted
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We Come Apart
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Sarah Crossan (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 3,930 ratings
score: 378,
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4 people voted
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Piglettes
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3.94 avg rating — 4,694 ratings
score: 286,
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3 people voted
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 356,895 ratings
score: 238,
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3 people voted
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,003,011 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Damage
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Eve Ainsworth (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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The Disappearances
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Emily Bain Murphy (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 5,295 ratings
score: 191,
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The Nearest Faraway Place
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4.08 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
score: 165,
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2 people voted
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A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 2,629,859 ratings
score: 163,
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2 people voted
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Release
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3.64 avg rating — 19,323 ratings
score: 155,
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Mind the Gap
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3.73 avg rating — 285 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Freshers
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3.43 avg rating — 3,632 ratings
score: 97,
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Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and Prejudice
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3.60 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
score: 96,
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The White Hare
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3.21 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 95,
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The Hypnotist
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Laurence Anholt (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 298 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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A Quiet Kind of Thunder
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Sara Barnard (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 13,702 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The One Memory of Flora Banks
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3.42 avg rating — 19,533 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Troublemakers
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Catherine Barter (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 651 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Who Runs the World?
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Virginia Bergin (Goodreads Author)
2.96 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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The Rasputin Dagger
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3.88 avg rating — 173 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Bad Blood: Part Two
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Jane Brittan (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Ink (Skin Books, #1)
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3.57 avg rating — 15,289 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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No Virgin
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3.54 avg rating — 593 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Another Place
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3.16 avg rating — 421 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Margot & Me
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Juno Dawson (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
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Sebastien de Castell (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 19,474 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Cell 7 (Cell 7 Trilogy #1)
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Kerry Drewery (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 3,887 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Ones That Disappeared
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Zana Fraillon (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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The Trap
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3.50 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Girl in Pieces
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Kathleen Glasgow (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 262,673 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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After the Fire
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Will Hill (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 11,244 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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The Ravenmaster's Boy
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3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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I Have No Secrets
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Penny Joelson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Indigo Donut
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3.58 avg rating — 931 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Beyond The Wall
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3.60 avg rating — 479 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Passing For White
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3.66 avg rating — 169 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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Walking Mountain
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Joan Lennon (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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The State of Grace
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Rachael Lucas (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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Between the Lies
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3.48 avg rating — 271 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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Kid Got Shot (Garvie Smith #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 814 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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Out of Heart
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3.35 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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A Berlin Love Song
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Sarah Matthias (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 682 ratings
score: 61,
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1 person voted
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Rook
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3.58 avg rating — 395 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Optimists Die First
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Susin Nielsen (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 6,079 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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Holding Up the Universe
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Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 144,004 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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Goldenhand (Abhorsen, #5)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 19,090 ratings
score: 56,
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1 person voted
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The Call
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Peadar Ó Guilín (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 15,567 ratings
score: 55,
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1 person voted
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Truth or Dare
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3.52 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
score: 54,
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1 person voted
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Superpowerless
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3.22 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 53,
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1 person voted
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The Jungle
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3.70 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 52,
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1 person voted
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Black Light Express (Railhead, #2)
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Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
score: 51,
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Girl Detached
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Manuela Salvi (Artist)
3.92 avg rating — 153 ratings
score: 50,
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1 person voted
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Saint Death
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3.76 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
score: 49,
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1 person voted
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Windfall
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Jennifer E. Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 17,029 ratings
score: 48,
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1 person voted
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The Way Back Home
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Allan Stratton (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 837 ratings
score: 47,
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1 person voted
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Life in a Fishbowl
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Len Vlahos (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
score: 46,
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Wing Jones
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Katherine Webber (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
score: 45,
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Straight Outta Crongton
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4.08 avg rating — 161 ratings
score: 43,
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All About Mia
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3.74 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
score: 42,
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