ALA Best Books for Young Adults
ALA Best Books for Young Adults is a literary prize awarded by the American Library Association since 1994 . Every year new publications are nominated by a committee. Young people choose the ten best youth books of the year from the Internet. The award will be presented at the end of the US “Teen Read Week” in October. These "Top Ten" are equal award winners, they are only sorted alphabetically.
Award winners
Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 1997 to 2010
- 1997
- Will Hobbs : Far North (Eng. Far in the north: adventure novel )
- Nancy Farmer : A Girl Named Disaster
- Philip Pullman : The Golden Compass (dt. The Golden Compass ) (Volume 1 of His Dark Materials )
- John Gilstrap : Nathan's Run
- Walter Dean Myers : One More River to Cross . An illustrated book about the life of African Americans.
- Rob Thomas : Rats Saw God (German Anti-Club )
- Josual Blum , Bob Holman and Mark Pellington : The United States of Poetry
- Mel Glenn : Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery In Poems
- Rich Wallace : Wrestling Sturbridge
- Binjamin Wilkomirski : Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (Eng. Fragments. From a childhood 1939-1948 )
- 1998
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti : Growing Up In Coal Country
- Sara Tuvel Bernstein : Seamstress
- Edward Bloor : Tangerine
- Robert Cormier : Tenderness (German tenderness )
- Karen Hesse : Out of the Dust
- Annette Curtis Klause : Blood And Chocolate ( dt.Blood and Chocolate : Roman by Annette Curtis Klause)
- Jon Krakauer : Into Thin Air ( in icy heights )
- Joyce McDonald : Swallowing Stones
- Walter Dean Myers : Harlem . A book of photos and poems.
- Marjorie Reynolds : Starlite Drive-In
- 1999
- Joan Bauer : Rules of the Road
- Penny Colman : Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
- Jean Ferris : Love Among the Walnuts
- Margaret Peterson Haddix : Among the Hidden (dt. Schattenkinder )
- Kimberly Willis Holt : My Louisiana Sky
- Anita Lobel : No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War ( The hiding place in the attic, a childhood in Poland )
- Ben Mikaelson : Petey
- Joanne K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (German Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone )
- Louis Sachar : Holes (Eng. Holes. The secrets of Green Lake )
- Jacqueline Woodson : If You Come Softly (Eng. When time stands still )
- 2000
- Irene Gut Opdyke : In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (Eng. Who saves a life ...: a true story from the Holocaust )
- Laurie Halse Anderson : Speak (dt. Say )
- Orson Scott Card : Ender's Shadow (dt. Ender's Shadow , 2004 and 2013)
- Kimberly Willis Holt : When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- Sherryl Jordan : The Raging Quiet ( Eng . Whispering Hands )
- Laura McNeal : Crooked
- Carol Meyer : Mary, Bloody Mary
- Walter Dean Myers : Monster (German monster! Monster? )
- Lensey Namioka : Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
- Connie Porter : Imani All Mine
- 2001
- Adam Bagdasarian : Forgotten Fire
- Joan Bauer : Hope was Here
- Tracy Chevalier : Girl with a Pearl Earring (Eng. The girl with a pearl earring )
- Jon Katz : Geeks: How two boys rode the Internet out of Idaho
- EL Konigsburg : Silent to the Bone
- Gary Paulsen : The Beet Fields
- Pam Muñoz Ryan : Esperanza Rising
- Jerry Spinelli : Stargirl (German Stargirl )
- Gloria Whelan : Homeless Bird
- Ruth White : Memories of Summer
- 2002
- Ann Brashares : The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (dt. A pant for four )
- Robert Cormier : The Rag and Bone Shop (Eng. The interrogation )
- Chris Crutcher : Whale Talk
- Alex Flinn : Breathing Underwater
- AM Jenkins : Damage
- Richard Mosher : Zazoo
- Garth Nix : Lirael (Volume 2 of The Old Kingdom ; dt. The Old Kingdom )
- Mildred Taylor : The Land
- Rita Williams-Garcia : Every Time a Rainbow Dies
- Virginia Euwer Wolff : True Believer (dt. Hard to believe it )
- 2003
- Laurie Halse Anderson : Catalyst
- MT Anderson : Feed
- Nancy Farmer : The House of the Scorpion (dt. The Scorpio House )
- ER Frank : America
- Gordon Korman : Son of the Mob
- Ian Lawrence : The Lightkeeper's Daughter ( Eng . The lighthouse keeper's daughter )
- Christopher Moore : Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Eng. The Bible according to Biff )
- Peter Nelson : Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
- Naomi Shihab Nye : 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
- Elizabeth Partridge : This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
- 2004
- Martha Brooks : True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (dt. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl )
- Jennifer Donnelly : A Northern Light (Eng. The light of the north )
- Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel (dt. Supergute Tage or The strange world of Christopher Boone )
- Angela Johnson : The First Part Last
- David Levithan : Boy Meets Boy
- Joyce Maynard : The Usual Rules
- Edith Pattou : East
- Adam Rapp : 33 Snowfish
- Jonathan Stroud : The Amulet of Samarkand (Volume 1 of Bartimaeus Trilogy , German Bartimaeus Trilogy )
- Craig Thompson : Blankets: An Illustrated Novel (Eng. Blankets )
- 2005
- Joshua Braff : The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
- Christopher Paul Curtis : Bucking the Sarge
- Phillip Hoose : The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- David Levithan : The Realm of Possibility
- Melina Marchetta : Saving Francesca
- Michael Morpurgo : Private Peaceful (Eng. My Brother Charlie )
- Kenneth Oppel : Airborn (German cloud panther )
- Adam Rapp : Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz : Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
- Sarah Weeks : So B. It: A Novel (German So B. It. Heidi's story )
- 2006
- Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton : Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti : Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
- Kalisha Buckhanon , Upstate
- John Green : Looking for Alaska (German one like Alaska )
- Chris Lynch : Inexcusable
- Stephenie Meyer : Twilight: A Novel (Eng. Until (s) dawn )
- Brian K. Vaughan : Runaways : Volume 1
- Scott Westerfeld : Peeps
- Chris Wooding : Poison (German Poison )
- Markus Zusak : I Am the Messenger (Eng. The Joker )
- 2007
- MT Anderson : The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
- Alan Gratz : Samurai shortstop
- Sonya Hartnett : Surrender
- Patricia McCormick : Sold (dt. Sold )
- Meghan Nuttall Sayres : Anahita's Woven Riddle
- John Smelcer : The Trap
- Megan Whalen Turner : The King of Attolia
- Nancy Werlin : The Rules of Survival
- Gene Luen Yang : American Born Chinese
- Markus Zusak : The Book Thief (dt. The book thief )
- 2008
- Sherman Alexie : The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Eng. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian )
- Ishmael Beah : A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Eng. Return to life. I was a child soldier )
- Jenny Downham : Before I Die (dt. Before I die )
- Stephanie Hemphill : Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
- Lloyd Jones : Mister Pip (German Mister Pip )
- Derek Landy : Skulduggery Pleasant (Eng. The Gentleman with the Firehand )
- Mal Peet : Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
- Matthew Poll : American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China.
- Brian Selznick : The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel (Eng. The discovery of Hugo Cabret )
- Shaun Tan : The Arrival (dt. A new country )
- 2009
- Robin Bowman : It's Complicated: The American Teenager
- Leslie Conner : Waiting for Normal
- Matt de la Pena : Mexican White Boy
- Siobhan Dowd : Bog Child (German: the beginning and end of all sorrow is this place )
- Suzanne Collins : The Hunger Games (Volume 1; Eng. The Hunger Games . Deadly Games )
- Christine Fletcher : Ten Cents a Dance
- Joseph Monninger : Baby
- Terry Pratchett : Nation. (Eng. an island )
- Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki : Skim
- Coert Voorhees : The Brothers Torres
- 2010
- Sarah Rees Brennan : Demon's Lexicon
- Paul Griffin : The Orange Houses
- MH Herlong : The Great Wide Sea
- Catherine Jinks : The Reformed Vampire Support Group (German blood ties. Confessions of a vampire )
- Donna Jo Napoli : Alligator Bayou
- David Small : Stitches: A Memoir
- Rebecca Stead : When You Reach Me
- Francisco X. Stork : Marcelo in the Real World
- Laini Taylor : Lips Touch. Three Times
- Sally M. Walker : Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.
Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, from 2011
2011
- Paolo Bacigalupi : Ship Breaker (German ship thieves )
- Jennifer Donnelly : Revolution (Eng. The Blood of the Lily )
- Melina Marchetta : Finnikin of the Rock
- Morgan Matson : Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
- Lish McBride : Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
- Andy Mulligan : Trash
- Mitali Perkins : Bamboo People
- Dana Reinhardt : The Things a Brother Knows
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz : Last Night I Sang to the Monster
- Marcus Sedgwick : Revolver (German Revolver )
2012
- Rae Carson : The Girl of Fire and Thorns
- Joshua C. Cohen : Leverage
- AS King : Everybody Sees the Ants
- Guadalupe Garcia McCall : Under the Mesquite
- Lauren Myracle : Shine
- Patrick Ness : A Monster Calls , illustrated by Jim Kay (Eng. Seven Minutes After Midnight )
- Ruta Sepetys : Between Shades of Gray (Eng. And in me the invincible summer )
- Maggie's stepfather : The Scorpio Races ( red as the sea )
- Laini Taylor : Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Sara Zarr : How to Save a Life
2013
- Jesse Andrews : Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Libba Bray : The Diviners
- Rachel Hartman : Seraphina
- Alethea Kontis : Enchanted
- David Levithan : Every Day
- Patricia McCormick : Never Fall Down
- Matthew Quick : Boy 21
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz : Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Maggie's stepfather : The Raven Boys (Eng. Whom the Raven is calling )
- Elizabeth Wein : Code Name Verity
2014
- Julie Berry : All the Truth That's in Me
- Kristin Elizabeth Clark : Freakboy
- Tim Federle : Better Nate Than Ever
- Tom McNeal : Far Far Away
- Rainbow Rowell : Eleanor & Park
- Marcus Sedgwick : Midwinterblood
- Ruta Sepetys : Out of the Easy
- Andrew Smith : Winger , illustrated by Sam Bosma
- Tara Sullivan : Golden Boy
- Elizabeth Wein : Rose Under Fire
- 2017 (all published in 2016)
Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa. Viking Press ; Traci Chee, The Reader. GP Putnam's Sons; Frances Hardinge , The Lie Tree. Harry N. Abrams; Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species. Katherine Tegen Books; Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn. Candlewick; Jason Reynolds, Ghost. Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books; Ruta Sepetys , Salt to the Sea. Philomel Books; Neal Shusterman, Scythe. Simon & Schuster ; Nicola Yoon, The Sun is also a star. Delacorte Press; Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King. Crown Books.
See also
Web links
- Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) - Best Books for Young Adults
- YALSA - Best Fiction for Young Adults
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teens' top ten. American Library Association, archived from the original on November 16, 2007 ; accessed on January 10, 2014 .