Young adult
Every young adult author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Young adult fiction follows teenage protagonists through stakes that feel like everything, because at that age they are. These series are built to be devoured in sequence.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson is an English author who writes YA thrillers. Born in 1992 and raised in Buckinghamshire, she finished her...
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Victoria Aveyard
Victoria Aveyard is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and a screenwriter. She was born and raised in...
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Julie Clark
Julie Clark is a novelist who grew up in Santa Monica, California, reading books on the beach. After attending college...
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Kerri Maniscalco
Kerri Maniscalco is an American author known for her romantasy novels, including the Stalking Jack the Ripper series and the...
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Natalie Barelli
Natalie Barelli is an Australian author who writes psychological thrillers, a genre she has made her own with books like...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author who writes romantic comedies and has also published journalism in The New York Times,...
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David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter who reached readers worldwide with One Day, his 2009 novel about two...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan writes contemporary romance novels and non-fiction. Before focusing on writing, she worked as an investment banker and taught...
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Adrienne Young
Adrienne Young is an American author known for her New York Times books, Sky in the Deep and The Girl...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist and screenwriter who gave a generation its defining coming-of-age story with The Perks of...
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Chevy Stevens
Chevy Stevens is a Canadian author of psychological thrillers. Her debut novel, Still Missing, published in 2010, came from a...
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Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. Her graphic novel debut, The Drowned, was published in...
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Ronald H. Balson
Ronald H. Balson is an American attorney who writes historical fiction that excavates the lingering shadows of World War II....
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Erin Watt
Erin Watt writes young adult romance novels as a collaborative pen name for authors Jen Frederick and Elle Kennedy. They...
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Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American novelist who writes young adult romance, and she has also co-authored collaborative fiction. She grew...
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Alex North
Alex North is a British crime thriller novelist who debuted under this pen name in 2019 with The Whisper Man,...
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Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American novelist who earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2013 for The Snow Child, her debut...
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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Candice Carty-Williams
Candice Carty-Williams is a British novelist who arrived in 2019 with Queenie, a debut that made her the first Black...
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Sabine Durrant
Sabine Durrant is a British journalist who spent years shaping stories for The Guardian and The Sunday Times before turning...
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Becky Albertalli
Becky Albertalli is an American author who writes young adult novels centered on identity, relationships, and the lives of LGBTQ+...
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Taran Matharu
Taran Matharu is a fantasy author from London. He began writing his Summoner series at age twenty-two during NaNoWriMo, sharing...
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Amber Smith
Amber Smith writes young adult and middle grade novels that explore themes of mental health, gendered violence, and LGBTQIA+ equality....
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Kristin Cashore
Kristin Cashore made her debut in 2008 with Graceling, a YA fantasy novel that introduced readers to a young woman...
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Jennifer Robson
Jennifer Robson is a Canadian author of historical fiction novels, most notably those set during and after the two world...
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Elena Armas
Elena Armas writes romantic comedies that make readers blush in public. The Spanish author, a self-described hopeless romantic and book...
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Abbi Waxman
Abbi Waxman is a novelist who writes women’s fiction. She was born in England, the daughter of two copywriters, one...
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Cass Green
Cass Green is a British psychological thriller writer whose young adult debut Dark Ride won the Rona Young Adult Book...
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British writer who works across children's literature and adult fiction, with roots in poetry and...
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Margaret Rogerson
Margaret Rogerson is an American author who writes young adult fantasy. She made her debut with An Enchantment of Ravens,...
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Jane Shemilt
Jane Shemilt is an English author of psychological thrillers whose debut novel, The Daughter, was shortlisted for the Edgar Award,...
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Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. Before turning to novels, he published articles and columns in...
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Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young adults, building stories that refuse easy answers...
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Becca Fitzpatrick
Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author who writes young adult novels spanning urban fantasy and psychological suspense. She made her...
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Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas is an American author who writes young adult fiction and made her debut with The Hate U Give,...
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Stephanie Perkins
Stephanie Perkins is an American author of young adult novels. She is the author of the Anna and the French...
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Isabel Ibanez
Isabel Ibanez is an American author who writes YA fantasy and romance novels. Born in Florida to Bolivian immigrants, she...
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Nancy E. Turner
Nancy E. Turner is an American author of historical fiction and a ceramic artist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine...
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SJ Bennett
SJ Bennett is an English novelist who writes cozy mysteries featuring Queen Elizabeth II. She holds a PhD in Modern...
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Daniel O’Malley
Daniel O'Malley is an Australian novelist who writes science fiction and fantasy that blends bureaucracy with the supernatural. Before turning...
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Jen DeLuca
Jen DeLuca is an American author who writes contemporary romance novels. She made her debut in 2019 with Well Met,...
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Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson is an American author who writes contemporary young adult fiction charged with emotional intensity, stories where grief and...
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Renee Knight
Renee Knight is a British author who writes psychological thrillers, and who has also worked as a television scriptwriter. She...
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Amy Engel
Amy Engel is an American author of young adult dystopian fiction, known for The Book of Ivy series, The Familiar...
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