YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019 Nominees
January 17, 2019
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YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) Best Fiction for Young Adults Committee presents fiction titles published for young adults in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for ages 12 to 18.
All the books on this list are current nominees for the YALSA Best Books of 2019 list.
The following books are currently part of the Harvard Teen Room Collection. To see the full list of nominees, Click HERE:
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
- Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
- What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
- Rebound by Kwame Alexander
- A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
- Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter
- American Panda by Gloria Chao
- The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
- Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Mirage by Somaiya Daud
- Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
- My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand (et al)
- The War Outside by Monica Hesse
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
- We Regret to Inform You by Ariel Kaplan
- Tradition by Brendan Kiely
- Furyborn by Claire Legrand
- Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier
- People Like Us by Dana Mele
- From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
- Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton
- Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Viviana Mazza
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan
- All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor
- Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
- Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
- What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
- Sadie by Courtney Summers
- The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
- Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson