Each year, YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks Blogging Team selects and annotates an annual list of notable audio recordings significant to young adults from those released in the past two years. 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.
2019 Amazing Audiobooks Nominees
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
- The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- Folded Notes from High School by Matt Boren
- Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle
- American Panda by Gloria Chao
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
- Tyler Johnson was Here by Jay Coles
- Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst
- In Search of Us by Ava Dellaira
- I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
- Relative Strangers by Paula Garner
- My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
- Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
- Cadaver & Queen by Alisa Kwitney
- Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Mass
- Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
- Tempest and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
- For Every One by Jason Reynolds
- Sunny by Jason Reynolds
- After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
- Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
- What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
- When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Stieger
- The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
- Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cobalt Squadron by Elizabeth Wein
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- WaR: Wizards and Robots by Will.i.am and Brian David Johnson
- My Name is Victoria by Lucy Worsley
- Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
The Amazing Audiobooks Blogging Team was:
- Erin Durrett, coordinator
- Catherine M. Andronik
- Anna Wynne Dalin
- Joyce Fong
- Brittany M. Garcia
- Sarah Hannah Gomez
- Cyndi Hamann
- Samantha Anne Jackson
- Amy Oelkers
- Kennedy Penn-O’Toole
- Erin K. Phemester
- Becky Proie
- Jessica Hilbun Schwartz
- Denise M. Tabascott