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YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Committee presents fiction titles published for young adults in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for ages 12 to 18.

From this list, they select the Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults titles from this list.
This award replaces the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults award.

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2024

Always the almost
Ander and Santi were here
As you walk on by
Becoming a queen
Bianca Torre is afraid of everything
Bittersweet in the hollow
The buried and the bound
The chalice of the gods
Chaos theory
City of nightmares
Cruel illusions
Dear Medusa
Delicious monsters
Divine rivals
A door in the dark
The do-over
The dos and donuts of love
The fall of Whit Rivera
For Lamb
Forever is now
Forget me not
Give me a sign
Gloria Buenrostro is not my girlfried
Going bicoastal
Gone wolf
Gorgeous gruesome face
Heartbreak boys
Highly suspicious and unfairly cute
How to succeed in witchcraft
I kick and I fly
If tomorrow doesn't come
Invisible son
Izzy at the end of the world
The lake house
Mascot
Miles Morales suspended
The minus-one club
Nigeria Jones
Plan A
Promise boys
The queens of New York
Rain rising
Reggie and Delilah's year of falling
Remind me to hate you later
Rhythm and muse
Saints of the household
The secrets we keep
The sharp edge of silence
She is a haunting
A spark in the cinders
Spell bound
The spirit bares its teeth
Star splitter
Stateless
Their vicious games
This dark descent
This delicious death
This time it's real
Those pink mountain nights
Unraveller
Warrior girl unearthed
We are all so good at smiling
We deserve monuments
What happened to Rachel Riley?
What stalks among us
When the angels left the old country
Where you see yourself

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2023

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2022

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2018

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2017

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011

This Handy Topic...

will help you locate the different YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults books that are in our collections. Just click on a name to go to the record!

Please note: if a title is not linked, it means that we currently do not have it in our collection. Please check the Kearney Public Library or consider ordering it from Interlibrary Loan

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