Titles in bold indicate a TAYSHAS Top Ten Book. Top Ten books are selected from those which received a unanimous vote in the committee’s initial voting process.
Title | Author(s) |
With the Fire on High | Acevedo, Elizabeth |
Internment | Ahmed, Samira |
Shout | Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Angel Thieves | Appelt, Kathi |
Little White Lies | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn |
Serious Moonlight | Bennett, Jenn |
Lovely War | Berry, Julie |
Girl Made of Stars | Blake, Ashley Herring |
This Book is Not Yet Rated | Bognanni, Peter |
Invisible Heroes of World War II: Extraordinary Wartime Stories of Ordinary People | Borrowman, Jerry |
Sky without Stars | Brody, Jessica, and Joanne Rendell |
The Gilded Wolves | Chokshi, Roshani |
Screenshot | Cooner, Donna |
Stronger, Faster and More Beautiful | Dayton, Arwen Elys |
Throw | Degollado, Ruben |
500 Words or Less | Del Rosario, Juleah |
Stepsister | Donnelly, Jennifer |
We Are Lost and Found | Dunbar, Helene |
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc | Elliot, David |
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel | Emmich, Val |
We Hunt the Flame | Faizal, Hafsah |
This Moment is Your Life | Gates, Mariam |
Fresh Ink | Giles, Lamar, Ed. |
How to Make Friends with the Dark | Glasgow, Kathleen |
Game Changer | Greenwald, Tom |
My Plain Jane | Hand, Cynthia, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows |
Heretics Anonymous | Henry, Katie |
Brave Face | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
Let Me Hear a Rhyme | Jackson, Tiffany |
Truly Devious | Johnson, Maureen |
A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Kemmerer, Brigid |
Darius the Great is Not Okay | Khorram, Adib |
The Downstairs Girl | Lee, Stacey |
American Royals | McGee, Katharine |
Heroine | McGinnis, Mindy |
Blanca & Roja | McLemore, Anna-Marie |
Two Can Keep a Secret | McManus, Karen |
#MurderTrending | McNeil, Gretchen |
Circe | Miller, Madeline |
Grand Theft Horse | Neri, Greg |
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens | Nijkamp, Marieke, Editor |
Mike | Norriss, Andrew |
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe | Norton, Preston |
Buried beneath the Baobab Tree | Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia |
Anger Is a Gift | Oshiro, Mark |
Seafire | Parker, Natalie |
Neverworld Wake | Pessl, Marisha |
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager | Phillipe, Ben |
Opposite of Always | Reynolds, Justin A. |
Patron Saints of Nothing | Ribay, Randy |
Pumpkinheads | Rowell, Rainbow, and Faith Erin Hicks |
Birthday | Russo, Meredith |
Four Dead Queens | Scholte, Astrid |
Dry | Shusterman, Neal |
The Last to Let Go | Smith, Amber |
Field Notes on Love | Smith, Jennifer E. |
Four Three Two One | Stevens, Courtney |
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Adapted for Young Adults) | Stevenson, Bryan |
Sadie | Summers, Courtney |
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me | Tamaki, Mariko |
Secrets of the Casa Rosada | Temblador, Alex |
On the Come Up | Thomas, Angie |
Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun | Toro, Guillermo del, and Cornelia Funke |
The Cold is in Her Bones | van Arsdale, Peterbelle |
Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen (Young Readers’ Edition) | Vargas, Jose Antonio |
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience | Vecchione, Patrice, and Alyssa Raymond, Eds. |
Kiss Number 8 | Venable, Colleen A.F., and Ellen T. Crenshaw |
Listen to Your Heart | West, Kasie |
Slayer | White, Kiersten |
Girls with Sharp Sticks | Young, Suzanne |
Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee | Zentner, Jeff |
The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig | Zolidis, Don |