Best Young Adult Books

The conclusion of the Inheritance Games trilogy finds Avery Grambs confronting the final deadly game of the Hawthorne brothers as she races to solve the mystery of Tobias Hawthorne's true intentions before time runs out.

Avery Kylie Grambs continues navigating the Hawthorne brothers' games and the mystery of why billionaire Tobias Hawthorne left her his entire fortune.

Ponyboy Curtis narrates the conflict between the Greasers and the Socs on the streets of 1960s Tulsa — and learns that the divisions between the have-nots and the haves cost everyone something essential.

Through a series of letters to an anonymous friend, fourteen-year-old Charlie navigates his first year of high school while carrying secrets he doesn't yet understand.

An assassin is released from the salt mines and offered her freedom in exchange for competing in a tournament to become the king's champion.

Lara Jean Song Covey writes letters to every boy she has ever loved — and keeps them in a box, never intending to send them. When the letters get mailed to all five recipients at once, Lara Jean's carefully managed inner life collides with reality, and she strikes a fake-dating deal with one of the recipients to manage the fallout.

A Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a dangerous fae world where a mortal huntress is dragged into an immortal court and must navigate deadly magic and forbidden love.

Meg Murry, her genius brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin travel through space and time using a tesseract to rescue Meg's father from an evil force controlling the universe.

Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on a school bell tower, both there for the same dark reason, and fall in love while completing a state geography project that keeps Finch anchored to life.

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray discovers a secret world of Shadowhunters, demons, warlocks, and vampires hidden within New York City.

In 1986 Omaha, two misfit teenagers fall in love over comic books and mix tapes on the school bus, in a beautiful, melancholy story about first love and the courage it takes to be seen.

Twin sisters Cath and Wren arrive at college as inseparable unit — and Wren immediately tries to separate. Cath retreats into her beloved Simon Snow fan fiction while the real world crowds in.

A fantasy romance set in a war college for dragon riders, following a young woman who must survive her first year among the most dangerous cadets in the world.

Miles Halter leaves home for Culver Creek boarding school in search of a 'Great Perhaps' and finds Alaska Young — dazzling, troubled, and unforgettable.

A mortal girl raised in the world of the faerie courts must navigate dangerous politics and her complicated feelings for the prince who torments her most.

A boy survives a museum bombing that kills his mother and escapes with a small Dutch painting — a theft that shapes his entire life across two decades.

When a stranger leaves his entire fortune to seventeen-year-old Avery Grambs, she must move into his mansion and solve a series of puzzles to uncover why.

Jude Duarte returns to Elfhame to reclaim her throne and confront the curse that has fallen on Cardan, culminating in the resolution of the Folk of the Air trilogy.

In the West African-inspired land of Orisha, a young maji must complete a sacred ritual to restore magic before a ruthless king destroys it forever.

In a future Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior must choose where she belongs — and discovers she may not belong anywhere.

A sheltered homeschooled girl falls for the mysterious boy next door, only to discover their connection runs deeper and darker than either of them could have imagined.

A figure skater and a hockey player are forced to share ice rink practice time, and their rivalry gradually melts into something neither of them planned.

Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year, navigating deeper secrets, more dangerous enemies, and a relationship with Xaden Riorson that is tested by the truths they are both keeping.

Katniss Everdeen becomes the Mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol, as all-out war engulfs Panem and extracts a devastating personal cost.