Publishers Weekly Best Books - Young Adult (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2024

Bright Red Fruit
(*)
Safia Elhillo

Ariel Crashes a Train
(*)
Olivia A. Cole

Icarus
(*)
K. Ancrum

The Brightwood Code
(*)
Monica Hesse

Brownstone
(*)
Samuel Teer

The Deep Dark
(*)
Molly Knox Ostertag

Looking for Smoke
(*)
K.A. Cobell

Compound Fracture
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Everything We Never Had
(*)
Randy Ribay

Libertad
(*)
Bessie Flores Zaldivar

Songlight
(*)
Moira Buffini

The Dividing Sky
(*)
Jill Tew

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
(*)
Jason Reynolds

2023

The King is Dead
(*)
Benjamin Dean

Blood Debts
(*)
Terry J. Benton-Walker

A Door in the Dark
(*)
Scott Reintgen

Spin
(*)
Rebecca Caprara

The Isles of the Gods
(*)
Amie Kaufman

Where You See Yourself
(*)
Claire Forrest

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
(*)
Thien Pham

Invisible Son
(*)
Kim Johnson

Mascot
(*)
Charles Waters

What Stalks Among Us
(*)
Sarah Hollowell

The Blood Years
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay
(*)
Dale Walls

2022

Ain't Burned All the Bright
(*)
Jason Reynolds

I Must Betray You
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

Right Where I Left You
(*)
Julian Winters

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Hell Followed with Us
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Beating Heart Baby
(*)
Lio Min

The Honeys
(*)
Ryan La Sala

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
(*)
Zoulfa Katouh

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
(*)
Isaac Blum

Rust in the Root
(*)
Justina Ireland

The Weight of Blood
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

The First to Die at the End
(*)
Adam Silvera

Man Made Monsters
(*)
Andrea L. Rogers

2021

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
(*)
Malinda Lo

Firekeeper's Daughter
(*)
Angeline Boulley

The Mirror Season
(*)
Anna-Marie McLemore

The Mary Shelley Club
(*)
Goldy Moldavsky

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
(*)
Laekan Zea Kemp

Blackout
(*)
Dhonielle Clayton

In the Wild Light
(*)
Jeff Zentner

The Other Merlin
(*)
Robyn Schneider

Himawari House
(*)
Harmony Becker

Skin of the Sea
(*)
Natasha Bowen

A Snake Falls to Earth
(*)
Darcie Little Badger

2020

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
(*)
Mildred D. Taylor

Red Hood
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

Dragon Hoops
(*)
Gene Luen Yang

You Should See Me in a Crown
(*)
Leah Johnson

Elatsoe
(*)
Darcie Little Badger

Everything Sad Is Untrue
(*)
Daniel Nayeri

Raybearer
(*)
Jordan Ifueko

Cemetery Boys
(*)
Aiden Thomas

The Inheritance Games
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Punching the Air
(*)
Ibi Zoboi

We Are Not Free
(*)
Traci Chee

The Magic Fish
(*)
Trung Le Nguyen

The Way Back
(*)
Gavriel Savit

2019

The Waning Age
(*)
S.E. Grove

Kiss Number 8
(*)
Colleen A.F. Venable

Out of Salem
(*)
Hal Schrieve

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
(*)
David Elliott

We Rule the Night
(*)
Claire Eliza Bartlett

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
(*)
Mariko Tamaki

With the Fire on High
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

Ordinary Girls
(*)
Blair Thornburgh

Patron Saints of Nothing
(*)
Randy Ribay

The Downstairs Girl
(*)
Stacey Lee

Pet
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

SLAY
(*)
Brittney Morris

Angel Mage
(*)
Garth Nix

The Last True Poets of the Sea
(*)
Julia Drake

Gravity
(*)
Sarah Deming

2018

The Prince and the Dressmaker
(*)
Jen Wang

Children of Blood and Bone
(*)
Tomi Adeyemi

The Poet X
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
(*)
Ellen Oh

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
(*)
M.T. Anderson

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
(*)
Adib Khorram

Pride
(*)
Ibi Zoboi

The War Outside
(*)
Monica Hesse

A Winter's Promise
(*)
Christelle Dabos

The Boneless Mercies
(*)
April Genevieve Tucholke

Dry
(*)
Neal Shusterman; Jarrod Shusterman

The Light Between Worlds
(*)
Laura E. Weymouth

On a Sunbeam
(*)
Tillie Walden

Sadie
(*)
Courtney Summers

Truly Devious
(*)
Maureen Johnson

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

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Young Adult

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018