Best Young Adult Books

A PhD student in biology impulsively kisses a notoriously intimidating professor to convince her friend she has moved on, and the resulting fake-dating arrangement becomes something neither of them expected.

Thomas wakes up in a box with no memory, arriving in a community of boys trapped inside a massive, deadly maze — and his arrival immediately begins changing everything they thought they knew.

Sixteen-year-old Aza Holmes navigates the spiral of OCD and intrusive thoughts while investigating the disappearance of a billionaire and reconnecting with a childhood friend.

A sweet, optimistic photography student is placed in the care of her brother's best friend — a cold, dangerous man with secrets who finds her impossible to ignore.

A young woman takes a job at an artist's studio and falls for the painter, not knowing that her anonymous confessions have been inspiring his artwork all along.

A farm boy in the fantasy land of Alagaësia discovers a dragon egg, bonds with the dragon Saphira, and is thrust into a war against the tyrannical King Galbatorix and his empire.

In the aftermath of the Erudite attack, Tris navigates shifting faction alliances, survivor's guilt, and a massive revelation about the true purpose of the faction system.

In a fractured future Republic of America, June — the regime's most gifted military prodigy — is tasked with hunting down Day, a wanted fugitive and folk hero from the slums, and the dual first-person structure places them on a collision course before forcing both to question everything they believed about the world they serve.

A creative and emotionally charged romance about two strangers who agree to meet only on November 9th for five consecutive years.

A prequel following eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow as he mentors a District 12 tribute in the 10th Hunger Games, charting his transformation into Panem's future tyrant.

Lara is trained from birth to be a spy-bride sent to destroy the Bridge Kingdom from within, but when she arrives she must choose between the mission she was raised for and the truth she discovers.

The Gladers escape the Maze only to face another WICKED trial — a scorched, sun-devastated wasteland they must cross while battling crazed Cranks and uncovering deeper layers of manipulation.

Belly Conklin has spent every summer of her life at Cousins Beach with the Fisher family, but the summer she turns sixteen, everything feels different — she does, the brothers do, and the house does.

A new adult romance about two people who agree to a no-strings arrangement, only to discover that emotions are not so easily compartmentalised.

After the girl of his dreams disappears, leaving a trail of cryptic clues, Quentin Jacobsen embarks on a cross-country quest to find her — and discovers she is nothing like the person he imagined.

Tris and Four escape the city to discover the truth about their world's genetic experiments, leading to a final sacrifice that divided readers and defined the trilogy's legacy.

As Bella prepares to choose between Edward and Jacob, a mysterious series of vampire killings in Seattle and the return of a vengeful enemy raises the stakes for everyone she loves.

When seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to rainy Forks, Washington, she falls in love with the mysteriously compelling Edward Cullen — who turns out to be a vampire.

Bella and Edward's wedding triggers a chain of consequences — including an impossible pregnancy — that will draw the entire vampire and werewolf worlds into an explosive confrontation.

After Edward leaves Forks to protect Bella, she descends into depression — and finds unexpected comfort in Jacob Black, whose own supernatural secret will complicate everything.

In a future America where love has been classified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, eighteen-year-old Lena counts the days until her cure — until she meets Alex.

In the Society where every choice is made by Officials — including who you will marry — seventeen-year-old Cassia is Matched with her best friend Xander but briefly sees the face of another boy, setting off a chain of doubt she cannot suppress.

Juliette Ferrars has been locked in isolation for 264 days because her touch is lethal. When the dystopian Reestablishment decides to weaponize her, she must navigate a world of power, control, and an unexpected connection with someone who can survive her touch.

The Infernal Devices reaches its devastating, then beautiful, conclusion. Mortmain's clockwork army threatens every Shadowhunter, but it is the question of Will, Jem, and Tessa — and whether love can survive impossible choices — that makes this ending one of the most discussed in young adult fiction.