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- Patrick Ness. Patrick Ness is one of the most imaginative young adult authors on this list. He is perhaps most famous for is Chaos Walking series, a three part young adult series about a dystopian world in which all living creatures can hear one another’s thoughts in what is called Noise.
- Markus Zusack. You’re probably already familiar with Australian-born author Markus Zusak. If not, then you’re probably at least familiar with his award-winning young adult novel The Book Thief.
- Lauren Oliver. I was first introduced to Lauren Oliver’s work through her YA dystopian novel Delirium: the setting is an alternate version of the contemporary United States in which love has been declared a disease and everyone must have a procedure called The Cure to remove the illness.
- Maureen Johnson. When I heard Maureen Johnson was writing a YA mystery/thriller series set in a boarding school, my ears perked up. Those are basically all of my favorite buzzwords.
- Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott was an American writer, known for her famous novel Little Women (1868). She obtained overwhelming success with the appearance of the first part of Little Women, a partly autobiographical story inspired by her childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.
- John Green. John Michael Green is an American writer of young adult literature, YouTube blogger, and executive producer. He is best known for his books Under the Same Star and Paper Towns.
- J. K. Rowling. Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pseudonyms J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British writer, film producer, and screenwriter, known for the Harry Potter series of books, which have sold more than half a billion copies.
- Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins is an American writer and screenwriter, and creator of the famous Hunger Games series. Her career began in 1991 as a screenwriter for children’s television programs on channels such as Nickelodeon.
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- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Buy on Amazon. From the author of Throne of Glass comes this equally intense and thrilling young adult book series, devised as a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Buy on Amazon. One of the most quietly impactful young adult books you’ll find on an AP English reading list, A Separate Peace centers on a complicated friendship between two adolescent boys.
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Buy on Amazon. No one can balance absurdity and tragedy quite like Lemony Snicket. His talents are on full display in A Series of Unfortunate Events, thirteen unrelentingly dark yet deliciously readable young adult books about the luckless Baudelaire children.
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Buy on Amazon. We wouldn’t leave this landmark young adult book from one of SFF’s best authors off the list. A Wizard of Earthsea presents the origin story of Ged, a boy with magical powers who must attend wizard school on an island (henceforth establishing this classic YA fantasy premise).
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Aug 17, 2021 · TIME recently shared its list of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. This definitive list was curated by a panel of celebrated YA authors, and includes the most compelling, enlightening, and influential young-adult books, all in chronological order beginning in the 1800s.
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With a panel of celebrated authors—Elizabeth Acevedo, Kacen Callender, Jenny Han, Jason Reynolds, Adam Silvera, Angie Thomas and Nicola Yoon—TIME presents the most compelling, enlightening...
