Best Young Adult Books

Seven children in a small Maine town band together to fight an ancient evil that preys on their fears — and are called back as adults to finish what they started.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of a Greek god and must prevent a war among the Olympians by recovering Zeus's stolen master lightning bolt.

An abandoned girl raises herself in the marshes of North Carolina and becomes the prime suspect when a local man is found dead.

In a brutal Roman Empire-inspired world, a Scholar girl goes undercover as a spy in the empire's most elite military academy while a soldier is tested to become the next Emperor.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar navigate the aftermath of the Gate explosion while uncovering a rebel network that links their world to Maas's wider universe in a shocking crossover finale.

Melinda Sordino begins ninth grade as a social pariah after calling the police at an end-of-summer party — haunted by a secret she cannot speak about and slowly losing her ability to function.

Holden Caulfield, expelled from his fourth prep school, wanders New York for three days before a breakdown — narrating his alienation with an intensity that defined adolescent literary voice.

Sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster meets Augustus Waters at a support group and falls in love — while both of them confront their mortality with wit, books, and each other.

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.

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.