YALSA 2009 Best Books for Young Adults

1.
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,594,622 ratings
2.
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 476,672 ratings
3.
The Host (The Host, #1)
The Host (The Host, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 1,039,928 ratings
4.
The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book 4.16 avg rating — 560,861 ratings
5.
Paper Towns
Paper Towns 3.70 avg rating — 1,465,108 ratings
6.
Audrey, Wait!
Audrey, Wait! 3.76 avg rating — 14,696 ratings
7.
A Curse Dark as Gold
A Curse Dark as Gold 3.61 avg rating — 13,906 ratings
8.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 52,786 ratings
9.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 3.80 avg rating — 50,536 ratings
10.
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 202,141 ratings
11.
On the Jellicoe Road
On the Jellicoe Road 4.12 avg rating — 51,497 ratings
12.
Living Dead Girl
Living Dead Girl 3.78 avg rating — 33,767 ratings
13.
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 58,194 ratings
14.
Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,088 ratings
14.
Sweethearts
Sweethearts
by: Sara Zarr
3.62 avg rating — 18,351 ratings
16.
Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1)
Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 12,614 ratings
17.
Impossible (Impossible, #1)
Impossible (Impossible, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 18,175 ratings
18.
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 52,725 ratings
19.
Stealing Heaven
Stealing Heaven 3.71 avg rating — 9,171 ratings
20.
How to Build a House
How to Build a House 3.70 avg rating — 2,492 ratings
21.
Nation
Nation 4.11 avg rating — 37,535 ratings
22.
What I Saw and How I Lied
What I Saw and How I Lied 3.53 avg rating — 15,029 ratings
23.
Waiting for Normal
Waiting for Normal 4.06 avg rating — 11,987 ratings
24.
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow 3.99 avg rating — 22,530 ratings
25.
The Last Exit to Normal
The Last Exit to Normal 3.84 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
26.
The Wild Girls
The Wild Girls 4.17 avg rating — 1,883 ratings
27.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 3.55 avg rating — 2,997 ratings
28.
Playing with Matches
Playing with Matches 3.81 avg rating — 986 ratings
29.
The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1)
The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 109,460 ratings
30.
Cybele's Secret (Wildwood, #2)
Cybele's Secret (Wildwood, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 13,386 ratings
31.
Madapple
Madapple 3.44 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
32.
Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale
Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale 3.62 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
33.
The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2)
The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
34.
The Boy Who Dared
The Boy Who Dared 4.02 avg rating — 15,856 ratings
35.
Night Road
Night Road 3.57 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
36.
Airman
Airman 4.15 avg rating — 20,645 ratings
37.
Tender Morsels
Tender Morsels 3.59 avg rating — 5,953 ratings
38.
The Last Knight (Knight and Rogue, #1)
The Last Knight (Knight and Rogue, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 2,927 ratings
39.
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry 4.19 avg rating — 357 ratings
40.
Kendra
Kendra
by: Coe Booth
4.14 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
41.
What the World Eats
What the World Eats 4.33 avg rating — 932 ratings
42.
Mexican WhiteBoy
Mexican WhiteBoy 3.86 avg rating — 5,781 ratings
43.
The Savage
The Savage 3.76 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
43.
Bog Child
Bog Child 3.81 avg rating — 4,830 ratings
45.
Thoreau at Walden
Thoreau at Walden 3.81 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
46.
Shift
Shift 3.75 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
47.
The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)
The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 8,233 ratings
48.
Dark Dude
Dark Dude 3.65 avg rating — 746 ratings
49.
Guardian
Guardian 3.81 avg rating — 391 ratings
49.
The Missing Girl
The Missing Girl 3.42 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
51.
Trouble
Trouble 3.92 avg rating — 3,785 ratings
51.
Black Box
Black Box 3.76 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
53.
Elephant Run
Elephant Run 4.09 avg rating — 6,922 ratings
53.
Me, the Missing, and the Dead
Me, the Missing, and the Dead 3.56 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
55.
The Spectacular Now
The Spectacular Now
by: Tim Tharp
3.51 avg rating — 43,748 ratings
56.
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom 3.95 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
57.
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West 3.78 avg rating — 624 ratings
58.
After Tupac and D Foster
After Tupac and D Foster 3.80 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
59.
Debbie Harry Sings in French
Debbie Harry Sings in French 3.71 avg rating — 946 ratings
60.
The London Eye Mystery
The London Eye Mystery 3.83 avg rating — 16,289 ratings
61.
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk 3.60 avg rating — 571 ratings
62.
Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance 3.75 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
63.
Fancy White Trash
Fancy White Trash 3.81 avg rating — 814 ratings
64.
Looks
Looks 3.40 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
65.
Suckerpunch
Suckerpunch 3.59 avg rating — 283 ratings
66.
Another Kind of Cowboy
Another Kind of Cowboy 3.65 avg rating — 652 ratings
67.
Pretty Monsters: Stories
Pretty Monsters: Stories 3.91 avg rating — 6,163 ratings
68.
When I Crossed No-Bob
When I Crossed No-Bob 3.87 avg rating — 288 ratings
69.
Bonechiller
Bonechiller 3.80 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
70.
Baby
Baby 3.78 avg rating — 120 ratings
71.
Brett McCarthy: Work In Progress
Brett McCarthy: Work In Progress 3.76 avg rating — 209 ratings
72.
Here Lies Arthur
Here Lies Arthur 3.65 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
73.
Keeping Corner
Keeping Corner 3.81 avg rating — 1,838 ratings
74.
Antsy Does Time (Antsy Bonano, #2)
Antsy Does Time (Antsy Bonano, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
75.
Ghost Medicine
Ghost Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 565 ratings
76.
Climbing the Stairs
Climbing the Stairs 3.87 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
77.
The Brothers Torres
The Brothers Torres 3.93 avg rating — 725 ratings
78.
Into The Volcano
Into The Volcano
by: Don Wood
3.39 avg rating — 613 ratings
79.
War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War
War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War 3.65 avg rating — 223 ratings
80.
What It Is
What It Is 4.17 avg rating — 23,329 ratings
81.
It's Complicated: The American Teenager
It's Complicated: The American Teenager 4.12 avg rating — 161 ratings
82.
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row 3.86 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
83.
Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor
Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
84.
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee 3.74 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
85.
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday 4.08 avg rating — 457 ratings
86.
Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America
Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings