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 the finalized 2020 list and previous lists on the YALSA website and on the Teen Book Finder app.
#BFYA2020 Nomination Posts
- With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined edited by Dahlia Adler
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali
- The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
- Michigan vs. The Boys by Carrie S. Allen
- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
- This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
- We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
- Lovely Warby Julie Berry
- Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé
- Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
- Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
- The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
- The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
- The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie
- The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
- 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
- Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
- Start Here by Trish Doller
- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
- We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
- Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan
- Voices: the Final Hours of Joan of Arcby David Elliott
- The Lying Woodsby Ashley Elston
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Disasters by M. K. England
- Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley
- All The Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle
- All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick
- Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
- Spin by Lamar Giles
- How to Make Friends with the Darkby Kathleen Glasgow
- How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by S.J. Goslee
- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
- If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- 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
- Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lại
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno
- The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
- 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
- Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz
- Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
- Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
- Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton
- When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
- The Black Coats by Colleen Oakes
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
- The Merciful Crowby Margaret Owen
- Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza
- There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
- The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
- Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
- Birthday by Meredith Russo
- Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
- The Fountains of Silenceby Ruta Sepetys
- Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
- The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah
- The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen
- 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 Poisonsby Addie Thorley
- The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- Girls on the Vergeby Sharon Biggs Waller
- Ship of Smoke and Steelby Django Wexler
- Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
- White Rose by Kip Wilson
- How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
- Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
- Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
- My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
The Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team was:
- 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: