Iowa High School Book Award - Young Adult

Awards List

2015

The Scorpio Races
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

The Selection
(Nominee)
Kiera Cass

Butter
(Nominee)
Erin Jade Lange

The Storyteller
(Nominee)
Jodi Picoult

The 5th Wave
(Nominee)
Rick Yancey

The Moon and More
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
(Nominee)
Matthew Quick

Doctor Sleep
(Nominee)
Stephen King

The Eye of Minds
(Nominee)
James Dashner

Full Ride
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Divided We Fall
(Nominee)
Trent Reedy

2014

Eleanor & Park
(Winner)
Rainbow Rowell

The Big Crunch
(Nominee)
Pete Hautman

Enclave
(Nominee)
Ann Aguirre

Ashfall
(Nominee)
Mike Mullin

Grave Mercy
(Nominee)
Robin LaFevers

The List
(Nominee)
Siobhan Vivian

The Diviners
(Nominee)
Libba Bray

The Raven Boys
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

Endangered
(Nominee)
Eliot Schrefer

Eleanor & Park
(Nominee)
Rainbow Rowell

Raven
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver

2013

Divergent
(Winner)
Veronica Roth

Fire
(Nominee)
Kristin Cashore

Beautiful Creatures
(Nominee)
Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl

Stolen
(Nominee)
Lucy Christopher

The Lying Game
(Nominee)
Sara Shepard

What the Night Knows
(Nominee)
Dean Koontz

Sing You Home
(Nominee)
Jodi Picoult

Department 19
(Nominee)
Will Hill

The Fault in Our Stars
(Nominee)
John Green

2012

Hush, Hush
(Winner)
Becca Fitzpatrick

Gentlemen
(Nominee)
Michael Northrop

Look Again
(Nominee)
Lisa Scottoline

The Weight of Silence
(Nominee)
Heather Gudenkauf

Wish You Were Dead
(Nominee)
Todd Strasser

Center Field
(Nominee)
Robert Lipsyte

The Sky is Everywhere
(Nominee)
Jandy Nelson

Rot & Ruin
(Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

Matched
(Nominee)
Ally Condie

2011

Thirteen Reasons Why
(Winner)
Jay Asher

Shift
(Nominee)
Jennifer Bradbury

The Knife of Never Letting Go
(Nominee)
Patrick Ness

Paper Towns
(Nominee)
John Green

After
(Nominee)
Amy Efaw

Shiver
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

Flash Burnout
(Nominee)
L.K. Madigan

Liar
(Nominee)
Justine Larbalestier

2010

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

Hacking Harvard
(Nominee)
Robin Wasserman

Change of Heart
(Nominee)
Jodi Picoult

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

Lock and Key
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Living Dead Girl
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Scott

Graceling
(Nominee)
Kristin Cashore

Wintergirls
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2009

Nineteen Minutes
(Winner)
Jodi Picoult

For One More Day
(Nominee)
Mitch Albom
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Book Thief
(Nominee)
Markus Zusak

Burned
(Nominee)
Ellen Hopkins

Dear John
(Nominee)
Nicholas Sparks

City of Bones
(Nominee)
Cassandra Clare

2008

Just Listen
(Winner)
Sarah Dessen

The Angel Experiment
(Nominee)
James Patterson

The Floor of the Sky
(Nominee)
Pamela Carter Joern

An Abundance of Katherines
(Nominee)
John Green

2007

Twilight
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

Keeping You a Secret
(Nominee)
Julie Anne Peters

My Sister's Keeper
(Nominee)
Jodi Picoult

Light on Snow
(Nominee)
Anita Shreve

Looking for Alaska
(Nominee)
John Green

Inexcusable
(Nominee)
Chris Lynch

2006

A Great and Terrible Beauty
(Winner)
Libba Bray

The Kite Runner
(Nominee)
Khaled Hosseini

The Kitchen Boy
(Nominee)
Robert Alexander

Shoot the Moon
(Nominee)
Billie Letts

The Mermaid Chair
(Nominee)
Sue Monk Kidd

Pirates!
(Nominee)
Celia Rees

2005

The Da Vinci Code
(Winner)
Dan Brown

Shattering Glass
(Nominee)
Gail Giles
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Eragon
(Nominee)
Christopher Paolini

2004

The Lovely Bones
(Winner)
Alice Sebold

Gingerbread
(Nominee)
Rachel Cohn

True Believer
(Nominee)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

2003

A Walk to Remember
(Winner)
Nicholas Sparks

Girl With a Pearl Earring
(Nominee)
Tracy Chevalier

Cut
(Nominee)
Patricia McCormick

The First Counsel
(Nominee)
Brad Meltzer

Breathing Underwater
(Nominee)
Alex Flinn

Born Blue
(Nominee)
Han Nolan

The Land
(Nominee)
Mildred D. Taylor

Razzle
(Nominee)
Ellen Wittlinger

Forgotten Fire
(Nominee)
Adam Bagdasarian

Whale Talk
(Nominee)
Chris Crutcher

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Young Adult

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