Booklist Editors Choice - Youth: Older Readers (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

2025

The Map that Led to You
(*)
Ella McLeod

This Is the Year
(*)
Gloria Munoz

Under the Same Stars
(*)
Libba Bray

Fable for the End of the World
(*)
Ava Reid

Songs for Ghosts
(*)
Clara Kumagai

They Bloom at Night
(*)
Trang Thanh Tran

The Corruption of Hollis Brown
(*)
K. Ancrum

A Fix of Light
(*)
Kel Menton

One of the Boys
(*)
Victoria Zeller

And They Were Roommates
(*)
Page Powars

Lady or the Tiger
(*)
Heather M. Herrman

We Can Never Leave
(*)
H.E. Edgmon

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
(*)
Don Martin

Legendary Frybread Drive-In
(*)
Cynthia Leitich Smith

Hollow
(*)
Taylor Grothe

Last Chance Live!
(*)
Helena Haywoode Henry

The Leaving Room
(*)
Amber McBride

Cry
(*)
Alisa Valdes

2024

Bright Red Fruit
(*)
Safia Elhillo

My Throat an Open Grave
(*)
Tori Bovalino

Ariel Crashes a Train
(*)
Olivia A. Cole

Just Another Epic Love Poem
(*)
Parisa Akhbari

Kindling
(*)
Traci Chee

Dear Wendy
(*)
Ann Zhao

Dispatches from Parts Unknown
(*)
Bryan Bliss

I'll Be Waiting for You
(*)
Mariko Turk

Unbecoming
(*)
Seema Yasmin

The Dark We Know
(*)
Wen-yi Lee

Compound Fracture
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Desert Echoes
(*)
Abdi Nazemian

Everything We Never Had
(*)
Randy Ribay

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
(*)
Hanna Alkaf

Libertad
(*)
Bessie Flores Zaldivar

Night Owls
(*)
A.R. Vishny

Don't Let the Forest In
(*)
C.G. Drews

2023

Botched
(*)
Shannon Gibney

For Lamb
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Forget Me Not
(*)
Alyson Derrick

Into the Light
(*)
Mark Oshiro

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
(*)
Lorraine Avila

Lion's Legacy
(*)
L.C. Rosen

Only This Beautiful Moment
(*)
Abdi Nazemian

Painted Devils
(*)
Margaret Owen

Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay
(*)
Kelly McWilliams

Everyone Wants to Know
(*)
Kelly Loy Gilbert

Champion of Fate
(*)
Kendare Blake

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

The Blood Years
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

Flower and Thorn
(*)
Rati Mehrotra

Kween
(*)
Vichet Chum

This Dark Descent
(*)
Kalyn Josephson

Didn't See That Coming
(*)
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything
(Top of the List)
Justine Pucella Winans

Award Categories

Adult

Adult Books for Young Adults

Adult: Audio

Adult: Genre Fiction

Adult: Graphic Novel

Youth

Youth: Audio

Youth: Graphic Novel

Youth: Middle Readers

Youth: Older Readers

Youth: Younger Readers

Award Years

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

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