What are the top 100 YA books to read?
Today marks the beginning of a new year, and with a new year comes hundreds of new YA books. And before we start talking about them - and oh, we will; our debut author line-up for this year is spectacular - we thought we’d compile a list of what we think are the top 100 YA books to read.
We won’t call it the “best written YA books,” because best written is very subjective as to taste. We won’t call it the “bestselling YA books,” because that would cut out a lot of important texts, and a lot of books by amazing women and amazing authors of color, and we don’t want to do that. We won’t call it “the YA books with the biggest fandoms,” because some of those are objectively more poorly-edited and problematic books despite their popularity.
But we will call this the top 100 YA books - 100 YA books that we think are great and that we think you should read. Just in our opinion, of course. Because there are a lot of lists like that out there, and hey, they were missing a lot of great books - and including a lot of books that, whoops, weren’t YA at all!
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This list groups entire series as one listing, or else Harry Potter and The Hunger Games would eat up ten spots. It also only includes titles that have been published before 2016, though there are upcoming titles that are phenomenal.
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