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The 100 Best Young Adult Books of the 2000s
100 Sideways Miles
2021 Best Books: FYA Faves
2021 Best Books: Reader Poll
2022 Best Books: FYA Faves
2022 Best Books: Reader Poll
2023 Best Books: FYA Faves
2024 Best Books: FYA Faves
The Afterward
Akata Witch (Akata Witch #1)
Alex, Approximately
All American Boys
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3)
The Anatomical Shape of a Heart
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1)
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables #3)
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante #1)
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
Ask The Passengers
Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy #1)
Beauty Queens
Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners #3) 
Belzhar
Birthday
The Bitter Kingdom (Girl of Fire and Thorns #3)
Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1)
Book Lovers
The Book Thief
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2)
The Brilliant Death (The Brilliant Death #1)
Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1)
Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy #1)
Catch the Light
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1)
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity #3)
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2)
The Crown of Embers (Girl of Fire and Thorns #2)
Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs #1)
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1)
The Dead (The Enemy #2)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Divergent (Divergent #1)
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1)
The Diviners (The Diviners #1)
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2)
The Enemy (The Enemy #1)
Every Breath (Every #1)
Everybody Sees the Ants
Everything Leads to You
The Fault In Our Stars
The Fear (The Enemy #3)
The Female of the Species
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Flight Season
Forever…
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
FYA Reading Challenge 2023.01
FYA’s Grown-Up Guide To Romance Novels: Required Reading
Genuine Fraud
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy #2)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
The Giver (The Giver #1)
Gone (Gone #1)
Gone Girl
Graceling (Graceling Realm #1)
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1)
The Graveyard Book
Happy Place
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1)
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3)
A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1)
How To Save a Life
How to Say Goodbye in Robot
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle #1)
I Capture the Castle
I’ll Give You the Sun
I’ll Meet You There
If I Stay (If I Stay #1)
If I Was Your Girl
A Million Junes
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1)
In Other Lands
In The Shadow of Blackbirds
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Jackaby (Jackaby #1)
Jellicoe Road
Juniper Lemon’s Happiness Index
King Dork (King Dork #1)
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1)
Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2)
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
Little & Lion
Little Universes
Long Way Down
The Lost Code (The Atlanteans #1)
Love Radio
March: Book One (March #1)
March: Book Two (March #2)
March: Book Three (March #3)

Midnight at the Electric
Miss Meteor
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Neverworld Wake
Night Film
None of the Above
Not That Kind of Girl
On the Come Up
One Last Stop
A Room With a View
Out of the Easy
The Outsiders
Page (Protector Of The Small #2)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Places No One Knows
Plain Kate
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
The Poet X
The Princess Bride
The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries #1)
Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries #2)
Princess in Love (The Princess Diaries #3)
Princess in Waiting (The Princess Diaries #4)
Princess in Pink (The Princess Diaries #5)
Princess in Training (The Princess Diaries #6)
Party Princess (The Princess Diaries #7)
Princess on the Brink (The Princess Diaries #8)
Princess Mia (The Princess Diaries #9)
Forever Princess (The Princess Diaries #10)

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1)
Reading Round-Up: The FYA Beginner’s Guide to Historical YA
Reading Round-Up: The Literary Mysterious Loner Dude Hall of Fame
The Realms of the Gods (The Immortals #4)
Rebel Heart (Dust Lands #2)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1)
Red, White & Royal Blue
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Remarkable
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
A Wrinkle In Time (Time Quintet #1)
The Ruby In the Smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
Sabriel (Abhorsen #1)
Sadie
The Serpent King
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse #1)
Skyward (Skyward #1)
Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling #1)
Second Helpings (Jessica Darling #2)
Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling #3)
Fourth Comings (Jessica Darling #4)
Perfect Fifths (Jessica Darling #5)

Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns #1)
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier #1)
The Sun Is Also a Star
Sweethearts
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
The Thief (The Queen’s Thief #1)
The Queen of Attolia (The Queen’s Thief #2)
The King of Attolia (The Queen’s Thief #3)
A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen’s Thief #4)

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #1)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Truth About Forever
Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1)
A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes #4)
The Ultimate YA Checklist
Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy #1)
Untold (The Lynburn Legacy #2)
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
We Were Liars
The Weight of the Stars
Wild Magic (The Immortals #1)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Will Grayson, Will Grayson #1)
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy #3)
Winterkeep (Graceling Realm #4)