Young Adult Books
Young adult fiction is written for readers roughly aged 13 to 18 but frequently resonates well beyond that range. These books typically feature teenage protagonists navigating identity, first love, family conflict, and moral choices, often within genre frameworks like fantasy, dystopia, or contemporary realism.
269 books
Thriller
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
Historical Fiction
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Non-Fiction
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Fantasy
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Roseanne A. Brown
Young Adult
A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro
Young Adult
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks
Science Fiction
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Crime
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
Young Adult
Alone
Megan E. Freeman
Young Adult
Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Fantasy
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
Young Adult
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson
Young Adult
Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins
Literary Fiction
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
Fantasy
Archer's Goon
Diana Wynne Jones
Young Adult
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fantasy
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Young Adult
Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea
Young Adult
Before I Die
Jenny Downham
Young Adult
Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver
Young Adult
Belladonna
Adalyn Grace
Young Adult
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
Comedy
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce
Young Adult
Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Young Adult
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Romance
Booth
Karen Joy Fowler
Young Adult
Boy's Life
Robert McCammon
Young Adult
Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Natalia Sylvester
Non-Fiction
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Young Adult
Bunny
Mona Awad
Comedy
Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey
Fantasy
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
Romance
Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
Fantasy
Castle in the Air
Diana Wynne Jones
Dystopian
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
Horror
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
Young Adult
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Comedy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Literary Fiction
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Fantasy
Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
Science Fiction
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
Horror
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
Non-Fiction
Code Name Verity
Cold Girls
Young Adult
Cold Girls
Maxine Rae
Horror
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
Young Adult
Crave
Tracy Wolff
Young Adult
Cut
Patricia McCormick
Young Adult
Dangerous Girls
Abigail Haas
Young Adult
Dear Martin
Nic Stone
Young Adult
Defy
Sara B. Larson
Science Fiction
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
Comedy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Comedy
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid
Jeff Kinney
Dystopian
Divergent
Veronica Roth
Fantasy
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
Comedy
Dork Diaries
Rachel Renée Russell
Romance
Eleanor & Park
Young Adult
Ella Enchanted
Young Adult
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Young Adult
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone
Fantasy
Fablehaven
Brandon Mull
Young Adult
Faking Normal
Courtney C. Stevens
Young Adult
Family of Liars
E. Lockhart
Young Adult
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
Non-Fiction
Feed
M. T. Anderson
Young Adult
Ferris
Kate DiCamillo
Young Adult
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah
Thriller
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Young Adult
Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Thriller
Five Survive
Holly Jackson
Young Adult
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Matthew Quick
Young Adult
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Jon Scieszka
Young Adult
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
Young Adult
Fuzzy Mud
Louis Sachar
Young Adult
Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow
Young Adult
Genuine Fraud
E. Lockhart
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Fantasy
Girls of Paper and Fire
Natasha Ngan
Young Adult
Gone
Michael Grant
Fantasy
Graceling
Kristin Cashore
Fantasy
Greenwild: The World Behind the Door
Pari Thomson
Comedy
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Young Adult
Happily Ever Afters
Elise Bryant
Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling
Mystery
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Historical Fiction
Harvest Home
Janet Lee Barton
Young Adult
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Young Adult
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Young Adult
Haunting Adeline
H.D. Carlton
Literary Fiction
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Fantasy
Heir
Sabaa Tahir
Fantasy
Hexwood
Diana Wynne Jones
Young Adult
Holes
Louis Sachar
Comedy
Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers
Horror
House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig
Young Adult
How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow
Comedy
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
Young Adult
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
Mystery
I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
Comedy
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
Young Adult
I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga
Young Adult
If I Stay
Gayle Forman
Young Adult
If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall
Fantasy
Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
Young Adult
In the Wild
Zadie Smith
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
Young Adult
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
Young Adult
InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green
Young Adult
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
Young Adult
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Young Adult
Killing November
Adriana Mather
Fantasy
Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco
Young Adult
Little Monsters
Kara Thomas
Young Adult
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Young Adult
Looking for Alaska
John Green
Young Adult
Looking for Smoke
K.A. Cobell
Literary Fiction
Mandy
Julie Andrews Edwards
Young Adult
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Young Adult
Matched
Ally Condie
Comedy
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
James Patterson
Young Adult
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Young Adult
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Thriller
Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Young Adult
More Than This
Patrick Ness
Young Adult
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Young Adult
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
Young Adult
My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Young Adult
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Young Adult
My Weird School: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
Dan Gutman
Young Adult
NW
Zadie Smith
Young Adult
Nilda
Nicholasa Mohr
Comedy
Nine Goblins
T. Kingfisher
Young Adult
None Shall Sleep
Ellie Marney
Young Adult
On the Come Up
Angie Thomas
Romance
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Young Adult
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Young Adult
Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper
Young Adult
Peak
Roland Smith
Young Adult
People Like Us
Dana Mele
Fantasy
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Pollyanna
Literary Fiction
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
Mystery
Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard
Romance
Punk 57
Penelope Douglas
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
Young Adult
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
Literary Fiction
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
Young Adult
Restart
Gordon Korman
Young Adult
Rumble Fish
S. E. Hinton
Young Adult
Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Young Adult
Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks
Young Adult
Scars
Cheryl Rainfield
Non-Fiction
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
Young Adult
Seraphina
Rachel Hartman
Romance
Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin
Fantasy
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo
Fantasy
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Young Adult
Snowglobe
Soyoung Park
Young Adult
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron
Young Adult
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Young Adult
Spin the Dawn
Elizabeth Lim
Fantasy
Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz
Young Adult
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Jeffrey Brown
Young Adult
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Young Adult
Stick Dog
Tom Watson
Young Adult
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
Young Adult
Swimming in the Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski
Young Adult
That Was Then, This Is Now
S. E. Hinton
Romance
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancey
Young Adult
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Fantasy
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Historical Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
M.T. Anderson
Comedy
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Fantasy
The Beginning Woods
Malcolm McNeill
Young Adult
The Belles
Dhonielle Clayton
The Blossoming Summer
Literary Fiction
The Blossoming Summer
Anna Rose Johnson
Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Young Adult
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Comedy
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Liz Pichon
Young Adult
The Cartoonists Club
Raina Telgemeier
Young Adult
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
Young Adult
The Cheerleaders
Kara Thomas
Young Adult
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Philosophy
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff
Fantasy
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
Mystery
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Young Adult
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart
Young Adult
The Do-Over
Lynn Painter
Fantasy
The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
Contemporary Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Fantasy
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Young Adult
The First to Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Young Adult
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult
The Fortress of Solitude
Historical Fiction
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
Fantasy
The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna
Fantasy
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
Dystopian
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Glass Girl
Young Adult
The Glass Girl
Kathleen Glasgow
Fantasy
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Young Adult
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Contemporary Fiction
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Dystopian
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Science Fiction
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Young Adult
The Impossible Fortress
Young Adult
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Mystery
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Young Adult
The Jewel
Amy Ewing
Young Adult
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Fantasy
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Literary Fiction
The Little White Horse
Elizabeth Goudge
Fantasy
The Magician's Elephant
Kate DiCamillo
Young Adult
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
Maya MacGregor
Young Adult
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Fantasy
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
Young Adult
The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fantasy
The Ogress and the Orphans
Kelly Barnhill
Literary Fiction
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Contemporary Fiction
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Young Adult
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Literary Fiction
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Thriller
The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
Fantasy
The Search for WondLa
Tony DiTerlizzi
Young Adult
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Young Adult
The Sky Is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson
The Song of Orphan's Garden
Literary Fiction
The Song of Orphan's Garden
Nicole M. Hewitt
Young Adult
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Jennifer E. Smith
Young Adult
The Stolen Heir
Holly Black
Young Adult
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger
Young Adult
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
Young Adult
The Summer of Broken Rules
K.L. Walther
Romance
The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon
Young Adult
The Terrible Two
Mac Barnett
Historical Fiction
The Unbroken
C.L. Clark
Comedy
The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett
Young Adult
The Wilde Trials
Mackenzie Reed
Non-Fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Young Adult
The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
Young Adult
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Young Adult
They Wish They Were Us
Jessica Goodman
Fantasy
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
Comedy
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis
Mystery
Tiny Pretty Things
Sona Charaipotra
Young Adult
Tithe
Holly Black
Young Adult
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
To Cage a God
Fantasy
To Cage a God
Elizabeth May
Fantasy
To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo
Young Adult
Today Tonight Tomorrow
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Young Adult
Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson
Mystery
Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson
Young Adult
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
Young Adult
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Young Adult
Two Can Keep a Secret
Karen M. McManus
Non-Fiction
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
Literary Fiction
Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Horror
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
Young Adult
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Young Adult
We
Michael Rosen
Fantasy
We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal
Young Adult
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
Fantasy
When
Daniel Pink
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Young Adult
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Young Adult
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
Young Adult
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
Literary Fiction
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
Young Adult
iGen
Jean M. Twenge
