Young Adult

Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 13 to 18.

Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct attributes that distinguish it from the other age categories of fiction. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. The
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Mistress of Bones (Mistress of Bones, #1)
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends
The Executioners Three
Once a Villain (Monsters, #3)
The Book of Heartbreak
Woven From Clay
A Spell to Wake the Dead
Better in Black
The Burning Queen
Leaving the Station
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
All the Tomorrows After
Yuli (Guardians of Dawn, #3)
The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire
The L.O.V.E. Club
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  • Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
    The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    My Return to the Walter Boys (My Life with the Walter Boys, #2)
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    The Gilded Cage (The Prison Healer, #2)
    Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
    Invisible
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    The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures #1)
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    Gallant
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    Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
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    YA Novels of 2017
    1,092 books — 6,565 voters

    The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
    Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
    Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Divergent (Divergent, #1)
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
    New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)

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