YALSA's Teens' Top Ten Announced

April 12, 2012

Teens have nominated their favorite books.

The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list where every title is nominated and voted on by teens. The 2012 nominations have been posted on the YALSA website so that teens across the country can read them all summer; voting will be happen over August and September, and the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October. (The Teen’s Top Ten list is chosen by teens, so if you’re an adult who reads YA lit, check out YALSA’s Readers’ Choice list for your own chance to nominate titles and vote for them!)

Without further ado, here are the nominated titles for YALSA’s 2012 Teens’ Top Ten list!

• All Good Children by Catherine Austen (Orca Book Publishing, 2011; 9781554698240)
• Ashes by Ilsa Bick (Egmont USA, 2011; 9781606841754)
• Abandon by Meg Cabot (Point, 2012; 9780545040648)
• Tempest by Julie Cross (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012; 9780312568894)
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (Penguin Group/Viking Juvenile, 2011; 9780670012947)
• Wither by Lauren DeStefano (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011; 9781442409057)
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman (Penguin Group/Dutton Juvenile, 2011; 9780525422945)
• Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen (Walker Children’s, 2012; 9780802723468)
• Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman (Penguin Group/Viking Juvenile, 2011; 9780670063116) 
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin Group/Dutton Juvenile, 2012; 9780525478812)
• Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gullede (Abrams/Amulet Books, 2011; 9780810997219)
• Legend by Marie Lu (Penguin Group/Putnam Juvenile, 2011; 978-0399256752)
• Hourglass by Myra McEntire (Egmont USA, 2011; 9781606841440)
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends, 2012; 978031261894)
• Shine by Lauren Myracle (Abrams/Amulet Books, 2011; 9780810984172)
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay (Candlewick, 2011; 9781406311525)
• This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers, 2011; 9781442403154)
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Penguin Group/Razorbill, 2011; 9781595143976)
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books, 2011; 9781594744761)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2011; 9780062024022)
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Penguin Group/Philomel Books, 2011; 9780399254123)
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic/Scholastic Press, 2011; 9780545224901)
• How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, 2011; 9780316036061)
• All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011; 9780374302108)

Via YALSA.