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Best Young Adult Books

Books for teenage readers

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  1. Falling Up

    Shel Silverstein

    ★ 4.3 (128k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Shel Silverstein's collection brings a world where eyebrows steam from screams, eels accompany girls, and a nose garden waits, all with his playful poetry and quirky drawings.

  2. The Opal Deception

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (128k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A vengeful pixie, newly awake from a coma, plans to cause chaos in the fairy world and target a memory-wiped Artemis Fowl, who must remember his past to stop a war between species.

  3. Harold and the Purple Crayon

    Crockett Johnson

    ★ 4.3 (127k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    With a single purple crayon, a young boy sketches an entire world of adventure, showing how imagination helps with life's unexpected turns.

  4. Tell the Wolves I'm Home

    Carol Rifka Brunt

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1987, a fourteen-year-old girl, grieving her artist uncle's death, connects with his secret partner, uncovering family truths and finding a path to healing.

  5. Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey

    ★ 4.1 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A telepathically linked dragon queen and her young, underestimated rider must awaken old powers and unite a broken world against a deadly, world-devouring alien threat.

  6. King's Cage

    Victoria Aveyard

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Imprisoned and stripped of her lightning, Mare Barrow navigates the betrayals of a king she once loved, while the rebellion she started burns stronger without her, threatening to consume a kingdom already at war.

  7. The House on Mango Street

    Sandra Cisneros

    ★ 3.6 (126k) average on Goodreads

    Esperanza Cordero's short stories show a young Latina girl finding her voice as she navigates identity, dreams, and the realities of her Chicago neighborhood on Mango Street.

  8. Confess

    Colleen Hoover

    ★ 4.2 (125k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    In a Dallas art studio, a determined Auburn, rebuilding her shattered life, falls for the enigmatic artist, Owen, only to discover his devastating secret threatens to unravel everything she holds dear.

  9. The Ruins of Gorlan

    John Flanagan

    ★ 4.2 (124k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Feared as dark magicians, the mysterious Rangers recruit a small, orphaned boy named Will, who quickly discovers their true purpose as the kingdom's silent protectors against a looming invasion by the malevolent Lord Morgarath.

  10. Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

    Hajime Isayama

    ★ 4.4 (124k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Humanity lives behind huge walls, safe from man-eating giants. When the giants break through, a young boy's desire for freedom starts a bloody fight for survival.

  11. The Eternity Code

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl’s latest brilliant plan involves showing a dangerous, stolen fairy supercomputer to a ruthless American businessman, confident that with his bodyguard Butler, nothing could go wrong.

  12. The Mysterious Benedict Society

    Trenton Lee Stewart

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Four uniquely gifted orphans infiltrate a mind-bending academy run by a nefarious villain, relying on their individual talents and burgeoning friendship to thwart a plot that threatens to brainwash the world.

  13. Salt to the Sea

    Ruta Sepetys

    ★ 4.3 (123k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the brutal winter of WWII's Eastern Front, a Lithuanian nurse, a Prussian soldier with stolen art, and a pregnant Polish girl meet on the overcrowded Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship sailing into the icy Baltic. Their hope for freedom clashes with an unimaginable maritime tragedy.

  14. The Serpent's Shadow

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.3 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    With the chaos snake Apophis threatening eternal darkness, Carter and Sadie Kane must unite squabbling gods and magicians, and bargain with a murderous ghost, to uncover an ancient spell that can weaponize the serpent's own shadow before the world plunges into oblivion.

  15. The Power of Six

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the last six alien Garde scatter across Earth, Number Seven, Marina, develops her powers and hopes John Smith, Number Four, and a mysterious raven-haired girl will unite them to fight the Mogadorian hunters before humanity's adopted home becomes their final grave.

  16. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

    J.K. Rowling

    ★ 4.2 (122k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A misplaced magical case in 1920s New York unleashes a menagerie of wondrous and dangerous creatures, forcing a shy magizoologist to confront dark forces threatening both the wizarding and non-magical worlds.

  17. Reconstructing Amelia

    Kimberly McCreight

    ★ 3.8 (122k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A grieving mother's relentless investigation into her daughter's supposed suicide uncovers the dark secrets of an elite all-girls school, revealing a truth far more sinister than she could have imagined.

  18. The Last Straw

    Jeff Kinney

    ★ 4.2 (122k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Greg Heffley must navigate his father's attempts to toughen him up with sports and 'manly' activities, or face the ultimate threat: military academy.

  19. Morning Star

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.5 (122k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the final book, a changed Red miner starts a brutal, galaxy-wide revolution against the tyrannical Golds, making him fight former friends and inspiring the oppressed to break free and create a new future.

  20. The Ersatz Elevator

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (122k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the sixth book of their sad story, the Baudelaire orphans go down a dark elevator shaft, finding red herrings, secret passages, and parsley soda, all while trying to outsmart a master of disguise and figure out some mysterious initials.

  21. Unearthly

    Cynthia Hand

    ★ 4.0 (121k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Blessed with angelic power and haunted by prophetic visions, Clara must navigate a dangerous destiny and a celestial love triangle as a fiery apocalypse looms.

  22. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

    Hiromu Arakawa

    ★ 4.5 (121k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Alchemy comes at a brutal cost in this story of two brothers. One is a living suit of armor, the other an alchemist with prosthetic limbs. They hunt for a mythical stone to restore their bodies, but they uncover a conspiracy more dangerous than their own forbidden experiments.

  23. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    Jesse Andrews

    ★ 3.5 (121k) average on Goodreads

    A self-deprecating film nerd and his only friend must face the difficult realities of dying and real connection when they try to make a last, terrible movie for a classmate.

  24. The Tenth Circle

    Jodi Picoult

    ★ 3.5 (119k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When his daughter accuses her boyfriend of rape, a mild-mannered comic book artist confronts the violent past he thought he'd buried, showing how far a father will go to protect his child.

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