Blog – Posted on Tuesday, Feb 04
However much teachers will make you read classics like Moby-Dick or Great Expectations, chances are that many of the books you’ll keep closest to your heart are the teenage books you read. Who can forget the first time they met irresistible, fast-talking Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables? Or the years that they spent growing up with Harry, Hermione, and Ron? Or the breakneck, can’t-tear-your-eyes-away sequences that made The Hunger Games an international phenomenon?
Luckily for us, it truly is the golden age for young adult fiction right now, as YA authors today continue to take the genre in new and incredibly exciting directions. Indeed, young adult books have stepped up onto the literary stage as a powerful genre in its own right, creating role models for all of us and leading important conversations about personhood, gender, sexuality, and race.
So what are the greatest teenage books ever? It’s a question that’s too vast for any one person to answer. So to compile this masterpost, we asked our community of 300,000 readers to vote for their favorite teenage books. Without further ado, here are the 115 best young adult books of all time.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the number of great YA books to read, you can also take our 30-second quiz below to narrow it down quickly and get a personalized YA book recommendation 😉
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You may have reached the end of this list, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tons of other wonderful young adult books to explore. Check out this list of the best young adult romance books or discover the newest indie YA novels hitting the shelves here!