Every year since 2003, teens around the nation participate in YALSA’s Top Ten list, where they nominate and choose their favorite young adult books from the past year. The list is always chock full of great reads, with something for every teen to enjoy. So check the list, and then check out any titles that you haven’t read already -- or treat yourself to a re-read of a new favorite!
10 Truths and a Dare by Ashley Elston (7th gr. & up)
EBOOK DOWNLOAD
It's Senior Party Week, that magical in-between time after classes have ended but before graduation, chock-full of gimmicky theme parties, last-minute bonding, and family traditions. Olivia couldn't be more ready...But when the tiny hiccup of an unsigned off-campus P.E. form puts Olivia in danger of not graduating at all, she has one week to set things straight without tipping off her very big and very nosy extended family
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide (9th gr. & up)
YA F ABIKE-IYIMIDE
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Herman (9th gr. & up)
YA F FOODY
Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
All These Bodies by Kendare Blake (8th gr. & up)
EBOOK DOWNLOAD
In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas (9th gr. & up)
YA F THOMAS
A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (7th gr. & up)
EBOOK DOWNLOAD
Trying to learn why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to her instead of his family, heiress Avery Grambs soon discovers that someone will stop at nothing to see her out of the picture—permanently.
Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (8th gr. & up)
YA F ALBERTALLI
When Ben and Arthur, two very different boys—and ex-boyfriends who are stuck in the past—keep running into each other in the present, they wonder if fate is giving them a second chance at love. Sequel to the ever popular What If It’s Us.
The Ivies by Alexa Donne (9th gr. & up)
YA F DONNE
A ruthless band of prep-school elites competing for admission into the Ivy League colleges of their dreams disrupt class ranks, club leaderships and academic competitions before one of them resorts to more deadly measures.
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo (8th gr. & up)
YA F BARDUGO
As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. This is the second part of a duology that began with King of Scars.
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon (7th gr & up)
EBOOK DOWNLOAD
Thrown together with Tarek, a cater-waiter, wedding after wedding, harpist Quinn discovers why he never responded to her email in which she confessed her crush on him and realizes that maybe love isn’t the enemy after all.
