Essential YA Titles 2016
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steifvater
1. The Raven Boys 2. Dream Thieves
3. Blue Lily, Lily Blue 4. The Raven King
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
1. Cinder 2. Scarlet 3. Cress 4. Winter
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
1. Six of Crows 2. Crooked Kingdom
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown
1. Red Rising 2. Golden Son
3. Morning Star
Throne of Glass series by Sarah Maas 1. Throne of Glass
2. Crown of Midnight 3. Heir of Fire
4. Queen of Shadows 5. Empire of Storms
Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard
1. Red Queen 2. Glass Sword
Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness
1. The Knife of Never Letting Go
2. The Ask and the Answer 3. Monsters of Men
Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series
by Ransom Riggs 1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children 2. Hollow City
3. Library of Souls
The 5th Wave series by Rick Yancy 1. The 5th Wave
2. The Infinite Sea 3. The Last Star
The Maze Runner series by James Dashner 1. The Maze Runner 2. The Scorch Trials 3. The Death Cure
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series by Jenny Han
1. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
2. P.S. I Still Love You
The Selection series by Kiera Cass 1. The Selection
2. The Elite 3. The One 4. The Heir
5. The Crown
Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
1. Uglies 2. Pretties 3. Specials 4. Extras
Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
1. Leviathan 2. Behemoth
3. Goliath
The Mortal Instruments The Infernal Devices The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare
Winger & Stand-Off by Andrew Smith
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Illuminae & Gemina by Amie Kaufman
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Elizabeth Eulberg
Blogs with more info: - YaLit.com
-EpicReads.com -YoungAdultBookReviews.com
-YALoveBlog.com -YABooksCentral.com
Other Resources: -Goodreads.com
(especially Listopia) -YALSA listserv
(don’t need to be a YALSA member to join)
-Amazon, B&N bestseller lists