Best-selling Books for Young Adult and Authors for Adolescent Literature

2. Prominent Authors
of Adolescent
Literature
and
Best-selling Books
for Young

3. Stephenie Meyer
is an American young-adult
fiction writer and film producer,
best known for her vampire
romance series Twilight.
Meyer was the bestselling author
of 2008 and 2009 in America,
having sold over 29 million books
in 2008,and 26.5 million books in
2009. Twilight was the best-selling
book of 2008 in US bookstores.

4. The Twilight Series
1. The Twilight Saga
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. The Breaking Dawn
When 17-year-old Bella Swan leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks,
Wash., she meets Edward, an exquisitely handsome boy at school, for whom
she feels an overwhelming attraction, and who she comes to realize is not
wholly human. Bella must choose between vampire Edward and werewolf
Jacob, while avoiding the attentions of less friendly vampires.

6. J.K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling and Robert
Galbraith, is a British novelist best
known as the author of the Harry
Potter fantasy series. The books
have gained worldwide attention,
won multiple awards, and sold
more than 400 million
copies. They have become
the best-selling book series in
history and been the basis for a
series of films which became
the highest-grossing film series in
history.

7. Harry Potter Series
The adventures of Harry Potter,
the Boy Who Lived, and his
wand-wielding friends at the
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry. Harry, Ron and
Hermione must master their
craft and battle the machinations
of the evil wizard Voldemort and
his Death Eaters.

9. Suzanne Marie Collins
is an American television
writer and novelist, best
known as the author of The
New York Times best selling
series The Underland
Chronicles and The Hunger
Games trilogy (which consists
of The Hunger Games,
Catching Fire,
and Mockingjay).

10. The Hunger Games series
In the ruins of a future North
America, a young girl is picked to
leave her impoverished district
and travel to the decadent Capitol
for a battle to the death in the
savage Hunger Games. But for
Katniss Everdeen, winning the
Games only puts her deeper in
danger as the strict social order
of Panem begins to unravel.

11. The Hunger Games series

12. Lois Lowry
an American writer credited with
more than thirty children's books
and an autobiography. She has
won two Newbery Medals,
for Number the Stars in 1990
and The Giver in 1994.

13. The Giver Series
by Lois Lowry
In the future, society has
eliminated discord, converting
everyone to "Sameness." In three
linked stories, Jonas, destined to
hold memories of the time before
Sameness; Kira, an orphan with
a twisted leg; and healer Matty
must discover the truth about
their society and restore emotion,
meaning and balance to their
world.

14. The Giver Series

15. Nelle Harper Lee
an American novelist known for
her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel To Kill a Mockingbird,
which deals with the issues of
racism that she observed as a
child in her hometown
of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite
being Lee's only published book,
it led to her being awarded
the Presidential Medal of
Freedom for her contribution to
literature.

16. To Kill a Mockingbird
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
from author Harper Lee explores
racial tensions in the fictional
"tired old town" of Maycomb,
Ala., through the eyes of 6-year-
old Scout Finch. As her lawyer
father, Atticus, defends a black
man accused of rape, Scout and
her friends learn about the unjust
treatment of African-Americans
— and their mysterious neighbor,
Boo Radley.

17. Lauren Kate
an internationally bestselling author
of young adult fiction. Her books
have been translated into over thirty
languages and include The Betrayal of
Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which
reached number 3 on The New York
Times Best Seller List for children's
chapter books on January 8, 2010. As
of Wednesday, April 6,
2011, Fallen had spent one year and
four months—with brief
interruptions—on the list

19. John Green
American author of young adult
fiction, YouTube video
blogger and creator of online
educational videos. He won the
2006 Printz Award for his debut
novel, Looking for Alaska, and his
most recent novel, The Fault in
Our Stars debuted at number 1
on The New York Times Best
Seller list in January 2012

21. J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
January 1892 – 2 September
1973) was an English writer,
poet, philologist, and university
professor, best known as the
author of the classic high
fantasy works The Hobbit, The
Lord of the Rings, and The
Silmarillion.

23. Sarah Dessen
American writer who lives
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

25. a bestsellingAmerican
fantasy author.
She is known for the Georgina
Kincaid series, Vampire Academy,
and the Dark Swan series.
Richelle Mead

26. by Richelle Mead
Two years after a horrible
incident made them run away,
vampire princess Lissa and her
guardian-in-training Rose are
found and returned to St.
Vladimir's Academy, where one
girl focuses on mastering magic,
the other on physical training,
while both try to avoid the perils
of gossip, cliques, gruesome
pranks and sinister plots.

28. by Richelle Mead
When alchemist Sydney is ordered
into hiding to protect the life of
Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the
last place she expects to be sent is a
human private school in Palm
Springs, Calif. There, amid the
wealthy students, Sydney and Jill
must attempt to pass as normal.

29. Sophie Kinsella
English author of chick lit. She
has written several successful
stand alone novels as Madeleine
Wickham and is best known for
her work under the pen
name Sophie Kinsella. The first
two novels in her best-
selling Shopaholic series, The
Secret Dreamworld of a
Shopaholic and Shopaholic
Abroad were adapted into the
film Confessions of a Shopaholic.

31. Rick Riordan
is an American author best
known for writing the Percy
Jackson & the Olympians series.

33. American novelist and short
story writer known for her
debut New York Times
bestselling Divergent trilogy,
consisting
of Divergent, Insurgent,
and Allegiant; and Four: A
Divergent Collection.
Divergent was the recipient of
the Goodreads Favorite Book of
2011 and the 2012 winner for
Best Young Adult Fantasy &
Science Fiction
Veronica Roth

34. by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, 16-year-old
Beatrice Prior must choose
among five predetermined
factions to define her identity for
the rest of her life, a decision
made more difficult when she
discovers that she is an anomaly
who does not fit into any one
group, and that the society she
lives in is not perfect after all.

35. Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver is the author of the
YA novel Before I Fall and the
Delirium trilogy: Delirium,
Pandemonium, and Requiem,
which have been translated into
more than thirty languages and
are New York Times and
international bestselling novels.

37. by Ray Bradbury
In a far future world, television
dominates, and books are
outlawed. The totalitarian regime
has ordered all books to be
burned by "firemen," whose job
is to start the fires rather than
stop them. But one fireman
begins to see the value of the
printed word.

38. by Judy Blume
Katherine and Michael, along
with various friends and
acquaintances in suburban New
Jersey, discover the possibilities
and limitations of love and
personal commitment — and
some interesting names for body
parts.

39. by Jerry Spinelli
Mica Area High School has never
seen anything like Susan
"Stargirl" Caraway, a classic
Manic Pixie Dream Girl who
wears Native American
buckskins, plays the ukulele and
cheers for both teams at sporting
events. A story about the perils of
popularity, the courage of
nonconformity, and the thrill of
first love.

40. by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the
horrors of World War II, Death
relates the story of Liesel — a
young German girl whose book-
stealing and storytelling talents
help sustain her family and the
Jewish man they are hiding, as
well as their neighbors.

41. by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes
up in the middle of a maze, with
no memory, and realizes he must
work with the community in
which he finds himself if he is to
escape. But once he escapes, he
discovers the outside world is a
new and dangerous place.

42. by Gayle Forman
Seventeen-year-old Mia is in a
coma after a terrible car accident
that killed her parents.
Awakening, she has no memory
of the accident, and must put her
life back together piece by piece
— and decide what to do with it.

43. by Tamora Pierce
Having been sent to Winding
Circle Temple, Daja, Briar, Tris
and Sandry begin to feel that
they have finally found a place
where their magical gifts are
respected. As they learn and
grow in their skills, they must
face down everything from
pirates to strange diseases.

44. by Francesca Lia Block
Five novels of life in a magical
modern Los Angeles, where
Weetzie Bat and her friends and
family — Dirk, Duck, My Secret
Agent Lover Man and baby
Cherokee — interact with ghosts
from their past and with each
other as they search for love,
connection and acceptance.

45. by Laurie Halse Anderson
Estranged best friends Lia and
Cassie both struggle with
anorexia and bulimia. When
Cassie dies, Lia must find a way
to hold on to hope, and
eventually to recover.

46. by Shannon Hale
On her way to marry a prince
she's never met, Princess Anidori
is betrayed by her guards and
her lady-in-waiting, and must
become a goose girl to survive
until she can reveal her true
identity and reclaim the crown
that is rightfully hers.

47. by Douglas Adams
In this collection of novels,
Arthur Dent is introduced to the
galaxy at large when he is
rescued by an alien friend
seconds before Earth's
destruction, and embarks on a
series of amazing adventures,
from the mattress swamps of
Sqornshellous Zeta to the
Restaurant at the End of the
Universe.

48. by S.E. Hinton
S.E. Hinton was just 16 years old
when she wrote this novel about
kids getting caught up in class
struggles. Ponyboy is a greaser,
from the wrong side of the
tracks; he runs afoul of the
upper-class Socs, leading to an
epic rumble between the two
gangs.

49. by William Goldman
This tale of a handsome farm boy
who, aided by a drunken
swordsman and a gentle giant,
rescues a beautiful princess
named Buttercup comes with a
slyly humorous, metafictional
edge: Goldman claims to have
merely abridged an earlier text
by one "S. Morgenstern"
(actually a pseudonym) and
peppers his text with clever
commentary.

50. by William Golding
The classic study of human
nature depicts the degeneration
of a group of schoolboys
marooned on a desert island.
Ralph, Piggy, Simon and their
fellow castaways attempt to
develop their own society — and
fail disastrously.

51. by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay
Jenkins receives a box in the mail
containing 13 cassette tapes
recorded by his classmate Hannah,
who committed suicide, he spends a
bewildering and heartbreaking
night crisscrossing their town,
listening to Hannah's voice recount
the events leading up to her death.

52. by Laurie Halse Anderson
After being raped at a party,
teenage Melinda is unable to tell
angry partygoers why she called
the police — and eventually stops
speaking all
together.Speak follows Melinda
as she overcomes her past, and
finds her voice.