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 the finalized 2020 list and previous lists on the YALSA website and on the Teen Book Finder app.
#AA2020 Nomination Posts
Fiction:
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali
- Lovely War by Julie Berry
- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
- Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
- Stronger, Faster and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
- Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
- Much Ado About Mean Girlsby Ian Doescher
- Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
- Vita Nostra by Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Dyachenko
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan
- Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher and Tom Fletcher
- All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
- Spin by Lamar Giles
- How to Make Friends With The Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
- Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein
- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
- Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman
- Stainby A.G. Howard
- Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- How Long ‘Til The Black Future Month?: Storiesby N.K. Jemisin
- The Afterward by E.K. Johnston
- Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones
- We Are the Perfect Girlby Ariel Kaplan
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- The Love and Lies of Ruhksana Ali by Sabina Khan
- Dig by A.S. King
- Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
- Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller
- Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
- White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philipe
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
- Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- The Virtue of Sin by Shannon Schuren
- Chicken Girl by Heather Smith
- The Perfect Candidate by Peter Stone
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi
- Cheshire Crossingby Andy Weir
- Frankly in Love by David Yoon
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
Nonfiction:
- Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Christopher Crowe
- The Truths We Holdby Kamala Harris
- Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
- Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson
- Becomingby Michelle Obama
- Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Makers, Mysteries and Magic by Mark Salisbury and Hana Walker-Brown
- Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
The 2020 Amazing Audiobooks Blogging Team was:
- Brittany Garcia, coordinator
- Samantha Jackson, coordinator
- Kit Ballenger
- Dawn Collins
- Cyndi Hamann
- Danielle Jones
- Christie Kimsey
- Teka McCabe
- Erin Phemester
- Sarah Ressler-Wright
- Wendy Stephens
- Kiera Vargas
Other Years’ Blog Posts