California Young Reader Medal Winners Young Adult

Awards List

2022

The Fountains of Silence (Winner)
Ruta Sepetys

Oct-2019
/ General Fiction

Patron Saints of Nothing (Nominee)
Randy Ribay

Jun-2019
/ Thriller

Frankly in Love (Nominee)
David Yoon

Sep-2019
/ Contemporary Romance

2021

All We Have Left (Winner)
Wendy Mills

Aug-2016
/ Historical

The Bitter Side of Sweet (Nominee)
Tara Sullivan

Feb-2016
/ General Fiction

Long Way Down (Nominee)
Jason Reynolds

Oct-2017
/ General Fiction

2020

Scythe (Winner)
Neal Shusterman

Nov-2016
/ Action Adventure

Daughter of Deep Silence (Nominee)
Carrie Ryan

May-2015
/ Action Adventure

The Hate U Give (Nominee)
Angie Thomas

Mar-2017
/ General Fiction

2019

Written in the Stars (Winner)
Aisha Saeed

Mar-2015
/ General Fiction

Walk on Earth a Stranger (Nominee)
Rae Carson

Sep-2015
/ Action Adventure

Girl in the Blue Coat (Nominee)
Monica Hesse

Apr-2016
/ Action Adventure

2018

Salt to the Sea (Winner)
Ruta Sepetys

Feb-2016
/ Action Adventure

Orbiting Jupiter (Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Oct-2015
/ General Fiction

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (Nominee)
Leslie Connor

Mar-2016
/ Mystery

2017

Kindness for Weakness (Nominee)
Shawn Goodman

May-2013
/ General Fiction

The Impossible Knife of Memory (Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Jan-2014
/ General Fiction

Red Queen (Nominee)
Victoria Aveyard

Feb-2015
/ Fantasy

2016

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Nominee)
Ransom Riggs

Jun-2011
/ Fantasy

Cinder (Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

Jan-2012
/ Science Fiction Romance

Eleanor & Park (Nominee)
Rainbow Rowell

Mar-2013
/ Contemporary Romance

2015

The Fault in Our Stars (Winner)
John Green

Jan-2012
/ General Fiction

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Nominee)
Laini Taylor

Oct-2011
/ Fantasy

Legend (Nominee)
Marie Lu

Nov-2011
/ Dystopian

The Fault in Our Stars (Nominee)
John Green

Jan-2012
/ General Fiction

2014

Divergent (Winner)
Veronica Roth

May-2011
/ Dystopian

Revolution (Nominee)
Jennifer Donnelly

Oct-2010
/ General Fiction

2013

Matched (Winner)
Ally Condie

Dec-2010
/ Dystopian

Beautiful Creatures (Nominee)
Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl

Dec-2009
/ Fantasy

2012

Graceling (Winner)
Kristin Cashore

Oct-2008
/ Fantasy

Beastly (Nominee)
Alex Flinn

Oct-2007
/ Fantasy

If I Stay (Nominee)
Gayle Forman

Apr-2009
/ Contemporary Romance

2011

The Hunger Games (Winner)
Suzanne Collins

Oct-2008
/ Dystopian

Unwind (Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Nov-2007
/ Horror

The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Nominee)
Mary E. Pearson

May-2008
/ Science Fiction

2010

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Winner)
Sherman Alexie

Sep-2007
/ General Fiction

2009

Life As We Knew It (Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Oct-2006
/ Fantasy

2006

True Believer (Nominee)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Oct-2002
/ General Fiction

2005

Stormbreaker (Winner)
Anthony Horowitz

Sep-2000
/ Action Adventure

Bronx Masquerade (Nominee)
Nikki Grimes

Jan-2002
/ General Fiction

2002

Bad (Winner)
Jean Ferris

Oct-2001
/ Suspense

2001

Armageddon Summer (Winner)
Jane Yolen; Bruce Coville

Sep-1998
/ General Fiction

1999

Far North (Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Oct-1996
/ General Fiction

1997

In the Middle of the Night (Nominee)
Robert Cormier

May-1995
/ Suspense

1996

Shadow of the Dragon (Winner)
Sherry Garland

Oct-1993
/ General Fiction

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California Young Reader Medal - Young Adult (Awarded by California Young Reader Medal Committee)

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