Ultimate Guide to Summer YA Reading
About this time of year, many of the big-name media outlets and websites share their “must read” books for the summer. Here’s a roundup of this year’s picks for young adult fiction from USA Today, MTV’s Hollywood Crush, xo Jane, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Wire, Mashable, and NPR to get you started on some of this year’s recommended summer reading YA titles. It’s a mix of new books and old ones. Some will come out later this summer, so keep them on your radar.
I’ve taken the liberty of weeding out the books on these lists that weren’t actually YA books but were Middle Grade or Adult books featuring teen characters.
Bonus: I’ve ranked them by the number of times they’ve appeared on the “must read” lists, from most appearances to least.
Four Mentions
The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
Three Mentions
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Two Mentions
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
The Summer Prince Alaya Dawn Johnson
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
September Girls by Bennett Madison
Rules of Summer by Joanna Philbin
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney
One Mention
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
A Moment Comes by Jennifer Bradbury
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
The Elite by Kiera Cass
The Selection by Kiera Cass
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
All I Need by Susane Colasanti
Deviant by Helen FitzGerald
If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
Flicker & Burn by TM Goeglein
Since You Asked by Maureen Goo
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Masque of the Red Death and Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Elegy by Amanda Hocking
Linked by Imogen Howson
Ask the Passengers by AS King
Vortex by S.J. Kincaid
In Darkness by Nick Lake
Five Summers by Una LaMarche
Grave Mercy and Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers
Proxy by Alex London
Catch Rider by Jennifer H. Lyne
SYLO by DJ MacHale
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
Far, Far Away by Tom McNeal
How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Intuition by CJ Omololu
This Side of Jealousy by Lili Peloquin
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Winger by Andrew Smith
The Boy on the Bridge by Natalie Standiford
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
A Midsummer Night’s Scream by RL Stine
Icons by Margaret Stohl
Confederates Don’t Wear Couture by Stephanie Kate Strohm
17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
Ink by Amanda Sun
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Boy Nobody by Alan Zadoff
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
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