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32 Of Your Favorite Sci-Fi YA Novels

S. Zainab Williams

Executive Director, Content

S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes fantasy and horror, and is currently clutching a manuscript while groping in the dark. Find her on Twitter: @szainabwilliams.

This giveaway is sponsored by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, publisher of Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray. She’s a soldier. He’s a machine. Enemies in an interstellar war, they are forced to work together as they embark on a daring journey through the stars. Their efforts would end the fighting for good, but they’re not without sacrifice. The stakes are even higher than either of them first realized, and the more time they spend together, the more they’re forced to question everything they’d been taught was true.
Because high school is more thrilling in space, and saving the galaxy is (maybe?) as important as that first romance. We asked you to share your favorite Sci-Fi YA novels, and you responded. Here are 32 of your favorites! Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth The Lunar Chronicles Series by Marissa Meyer The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew A. Smith A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Insignia by S.J. Kincaid Illuminae: The Illuminae Files, Book 1 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Shade’s Children by Garth Nix Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Red Rising by Pierce Brown Feed by Matthew Tobin Anderson The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfield The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach Across the Universe Series by Beth Revis Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Giver by Lois Lowry The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill Ship Breaker Series by Paolo Bacigalupi Starfall by Melissa Landers Insurgent by Veronica Roth Beyond the Red by Ava Jae Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan Starflight by Melissa Landers The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron