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35+ of Your Favorite YA Books of 2017

This giveaway is sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get…
This year has been a spectacular one for Young Adult fiction. Our 2017 reading lists were graced with books like Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, Rin Chupeco’s The Bone Witch, and Erika Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. We asked you to tell us your favorite YA book of 2017, and you answered! Here are more than 35 of your favorites: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Radio Silence by Alice Oseman You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas Renegades by Marissa Meyer The Book Jumper by Mecthild Glaser The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Want by Cindy Pon The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee Watch Me Disappear: A Novel by Janelle Brown A Million Junes by Emily Henry The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed Dear Martin by Nic Stone We Are Okay by Nina LaCour The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Caraval by Stephanie Garber Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia Heartless by Marissa Meyer Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich Gemina by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman The Reader by Traci Chee Invictus by Ryan Graudin The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner The Victoria In My Head by Janelle Milanes The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Scythe by Neal Shusterman