YALSA’s 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. Click on the title of each book to be taken to the blog post featuring a review, or browse all blog posts here. You can see previous lists on the YALSA website and on the Teen Book Finder app. If you’d like to suggest a title, please fill out this form. New #BFYA2020 nominees are generally published to the Hub on Fridays.
The Teen Feedback form is available here. For those participating in the teen feedback form, a list of current #BFYA2020 nominations is available here. Please note, this list contains titles that may not have been blogged about yet.
Current #BFYA2020 Nominees:
- With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali
- The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
- This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
- We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
- Lovely War by Julie Berry
- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
- The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
- The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie
- Strong, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
- Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
- Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan
- Voices: the Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott
- The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston
- The Disasters by M. K. England
- Spin by Lamar Giles
- How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
- How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by S.J. Goslee
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
- Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer
- The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
- Dig by A.S. King
- Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge
- The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
- I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno
- Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- Fear of Missing Out by Kate McGovern
- Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon
- Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
- Come Find Me by Megan Miranda
- Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
- When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
- The Black Coats by Colleen Oakes
- The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
- Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
- Birthday by Meredith Russo
- Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
- Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
- The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson
- You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
- This Time Will be Different by Misa Sugiura
- On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
- An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley
- The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller
- Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
- Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
- White Rose by Kip Wilson
- Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
The Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team is:
- Kimmie DePinto, coordinator
- Alicia Abdul
- Stephanie Charlefour
- Molly Dettmann
- Michael Fleming
- Laura Giunta
- Audrey Hopkins
- Jodi Kruse
- Ness Shortley
- Isaiah West
- Molly Wetta
Previous Years’ Blog Posts: