The 100 Best YA Books of All Time (original) (raw)

With a panel of celebrated authors—Elizabeth Acevedo, Kacen Callender, Jenny Han, Jason Reynolds, Adam Silvera, Angie Thomas and Nicola Yoon—TIME presents the most compelling, enlightening and influential young-adult books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s

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YA Book Intro

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  Jason Reynolds: YA Books Make Us Feel Safe to Be Who We Really Are
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Young Adult Books

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  Little Women
  by Louisa May Alcott
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  Anne of Green Gables
  by L. M. Montgomery
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  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  by Betty Smith
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  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
  by Anne Frank
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  The Catcher in the Rye
  by J.D. Salinger
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  Lord of the Flies
  by William Golding
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  To Kill a Mockingbird
  by Harper Lee
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  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  by E.L. Konigsburg
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  A Wizard of Earthsea
  by Ursula K. Le Guin
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  I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip
  by John Donovan
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  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
  by Judy Blume
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  A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich
  by Alice Childress
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  Forever
  by Judy Blume
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  Tuck Everlasting
  by Natalie Babbitt
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  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  by Mildred D. Taylor
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  A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  by Madeleine L'Engle
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  The Westing Game
  by Ellen Raskin
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  Homecoming
  by Cynthia Voigt
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  The House on Mango Street
  by Sandra Cisneros
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  Weetzie Bat
  by Francesca Lia Block
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  The Giver
  by Lois Lowry
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  Ella Enchanted
  by Gail Carson Levine
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  Holes
  by Louis Sachar
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  If You Come Softly
  by Jacqueline Woodson
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  Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
  by Louise Rennison
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  Monster
  by Walter Dean Myers
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  Speak
  by Laurie Halse Anderson
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  Stargirl
  by Jerry Spinelli
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  The Princess Diaries
  by Meg Cabot
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  A Step from Heaven
  by An Na
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  Rainbow Boys
  by Alex Sanchez
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  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  by Ann Brashares
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  Before We Were Free
  by Julia Alvarez
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  Feed
  by M.T. Anderson
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  Persepolis
  by Marjane Satrapi
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  How I Live Now
  by Meg Rosoff
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  Code Talker
  by Joseph Bruchac
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  Elsewhere
  by Gabrielle Zevin
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  The Book Thief
  by Markus Zusak
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  The Lightning Thief
  by Rick Riordan
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  American Born Chinese
  by Gene Luen Yang
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  Copper Sun
  by Sharon Draper
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  Tyrell
  by Coe Booth
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  Graceling
  by Kristin Cashore
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  The Hunger Games
  by Suzanne Collins
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  Ship Breaker
  by Paolo Bacigalupi
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  Akata Witch
  by Nnedi Okorafor
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  Daughter of Smoke & Bone
  by Laini Taylor
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  Legend
  by Marie Lu
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