Best Young Adult Books

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.

The conclusion of the Powerless Trilogy, in which rebellion, revelation, and the forbidden romance between Paedyn and Kai reach their climax and the fate of Ilya is decided.

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.

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.

Two sisters escape their tyrannical father for Caraval, a once-a-year immersive magical game where the line between performance and reality dissolves — and where this year's prize is one of the sisters herself.

The finale of the Crave saga, in which the supernatural conflicts reach their climax and Grace, Hudson, and their allies fight for their world and their future in a high-stakes conclusion.

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.

The second Malediction book, in which Cécile and Tristan, separated and working from different worlds, race to find the witch who can break the curse binding the trolls — and the dangerous forces who want it kept.

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.

The second book in the Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. After Susannah's death, the summer house at Cousins feels impossible to return to — until Jeremiah calls to say Conrad has vanished, and Belly is pulled back into the orbit of the two brothers and the grief they all share.

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.

In a kingdom that purges the powerless, an ordinary girl hiding among the gifted must survive a deadly competition — and her growing feelings for the ruthless prince tasked with enforcing the law that would have her killed.