YALSA’s
Teens’ Top Ten
A Reading Event for Teens Ages 12 to 18.
The YALSA Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country.
Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online in August and September. The winners will be announced in October.
The Madison Library District has a complementary award, the MLD Choice Award for Teens. We also have awards for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Tween, and Children’s books, and Movies.
Voting Begins August 17!
Winners and Nominees for 2016
Winners:
- Alive by Chandler Baker
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
- The Novice: Summoner: Book One by Taran Matharu
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- When by Victoria Laurie
- Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten
And the other nominees were:
- The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker
- Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs
- Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
- You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison
- The Summer After You & Me by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
- The Devil You Know by Trish Doller
- Charlie, Presumed Dead by Anne Heltzel
- Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
- Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt
- Con Academy by Joe Schreiber
- The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
- The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons
- Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
- Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti
Winners and Nominees for 2015
Winners:
- The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- I Become Shadow by Joe Shine
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
- My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
- Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
- The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
- The Young Elites by Marie Lu
- The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
- Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
- The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
And the other nominees were:
- Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
- Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne
- Mortal Gods by Kendare Blake
- The Inventor’s Secret by Andrea Cremer
- Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
- The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain
- Unhinged by A. G. Howard
- The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
- Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott
- Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
- Boys Like You by Juliana Stone
- We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
- Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley