Teens' Top Ten

Each year, groups of teens nominate their favorite books of the year and then voting is open to all teens (12 - 18 years old) to determine the Teens' Top Ten books of the year.

See more about Teens' Top Ten here.

Watch the nominees announced here.

See the complete list of nominees here.

Vote for your favorites here.

Our library owns the following titles as books, eBooks, and/or eAudiobooks.  Click the links below to check out or reserve these titles.  If you'd like to read a book we don't own, you may fill out a suggestion for purchase form here and we'll purchase it for our library.

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken -  eBook

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum -  eBook  eAudiobook

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare - book  eBook  eAudiobook

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard - eBook

The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle - book  

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow - eBook

The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid - eBook

Heartless by Marissa Meyer - eBook  eAudiobook

This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp - eBook

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo - book  eBook

Scythe by Neal Shusterman - eBook

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch - eBook

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon - book  eBook eAudiobook

Teens' Top Ten

 

The Teens' Top Ten is a teen choice list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year.  More information is available here.

The 2016 Teens’ Top Ten titles are listed below. 

Click on the titles to see the books in our catalog.  If you'd like us to have a book that we don't already own, click on "request it" to submit a suggestion for us to purchase it.

1. Alive by Chandler Baker (request it here)
   Stella Cross has received a heart transplant, but it has not stopped her emotional suffering.
   Then a mysterious boy named Levi Zin comes into her life. Stella’s pain goes away whenever she’s around Levi. However, Stella finds out a terrible secret about Levi. Can it be true?
   
2. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Y Fiction and ebook)
   Death plays a big role in the lives of high schoolers Theodore Finch and Violet Markey. He is constantly on the verge of suicide, and she is battling grief after her sister’s death. The Indiana teens come together to work on a project and soon develop a bond, showing each other what it’s like to live.
   
3. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough (request it here)
   Set in Seattle in the 1920s, a romance develops between Flora, who is African American, and Henry, who is white. Despite some differences, the pair has much in common, including a shared love of jazz music. However, it turns out that Flora and Henry actually are pawns in a game played by two other characters – Love and Death. This book is full of intrigue and is, at times, heartbreaking, and will have the reader racing to the final pages.
   
4. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Y Fiction)
   Young criminal genius Kaz Brekker is offered the chance to pull off a dangerous theft that can make him rich. He recruits a gang of six dangerous misfits to help him with the heist. The book follows the crew’s crazy adventure and features plot twists, betrayals, and schemes aplenty.
   
5. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (Y Fiction and ebook)
   Maddy is a teenager with a serious autoimmune disease that prevents her from leaving the house. Yet, she seems content to stay home and read books. That is until a boy named Olly moves in next door. The two meet, and their quirky relationship is chronicled through emails, journal entries, IMs and old notes.
   
6. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone (request it here)
   Samantha McAllister seems to have it all: she is beautiful, bright and part of the popular crowd in high school. But looks can be deceiving, and she is hiding the fact she has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Samantha’s life changes after she visits a place at school called Poet’s Corner and she begins hanging out with new friends like Caroline and AJ.
   
7. The Novice: Summoner: Book One by Taran Matharu (request it here)
   A blacksmith’s apprentice named Fletcher discovers he can summon demons from another world. He soon gets chased out of his village for a crime he did not commit, ending up at an academy for adepts, where he is trained to serve as a Battlemage in the Empire’s war against the savage Orcs. Eventually, Fletcher discovers the fate of the Empire is in his hands.
   
8. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Y Fiction and ebook)
   Kady and Ezra have just broken up, and then their planet is bombed by a megacorporation. The pair escapes to a government ship, but must put their differences aside in order to survive and stop a plague that has resulted from the use of a bioweapon.
   
9. When by Victoria Laurie (request it here)
   High school junior Maddie Fynn has special powers that allow her to see numbers above a person’s forehead, which she soon discovers are death dates. She identifies the death date of a young boy, but is unable to prevent his disappearance. Then, Maddie becomes a suspect in a homicide investigation.
   
10. Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten (request it here)
    June and Delia were best friends who grew apart. Then, Delia commits suicide. Or, at least that’s what others have been told. June believes her former best friend has been murdered, and she goes on a quest to find the truth . . . which, it turns out, is very complicated.
    

Annotations provided by the Teens' Top Ten book groups and publicized by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association).

Teens' Top Ten

The 2012 Teens' Top Ten list was announced to kick off Teen Read Week.  Each year, teens nominate and vote for their favorite books of the previous year.  See the winners and nominations in our catalog here.

We've made our own top ten lists of books published  last year based on how many times there were checked out. 

How many have you read?  Which one is your favorite?

Here are the top ten from our teen section:

1 (tie) What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
1 (tie) Flawless: A Pretty Little Liars Novel by Sara Shepard
1 (tie) Angel: A Maximun Ride Novel by James Patterson
4  Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton
5 (tie) I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
5 (tie) Crossed by Allyson Condie
7 (tie) The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide by Stephenie Meyer
7 (tie) Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
7 (tie) Matched by Allyson Condie
7 (tie) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
7 (tie) The Emperor of Nihon-Ja by John Flanagan

Here are our top ten teen books from our juvenile section:

1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever 
2 The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
3 (tie) Wonderstruck by Brian Selznik
3 (tie) Sign of the Moon by Erin Hunte
5 Ten Rules for Living with my Sister by Ann Martin
6 The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
7 (tie) A World without Heroes by Brandon Mull
7 (tie) Spirits in the Stars by Erin Hunter
7 (tie) Quest for the Spark by Tom Sniegoski
7 (tie) The Emerald Casket by Richard Newsome

Teens' Top Ten

YALSA announced the 2011 Teens' Top Ten books today.

What is your pick for the best book of the last year?

1. The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
4. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
5. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
6. Matched by Ally Condie
7. Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
8. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
9. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
10. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Teen Read Week

This week is Teen Read Week. The 2010 Teens' Top Ten Winners were announced Monday.

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
3. Heist Society by Ally Carter
4. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
5. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
7. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
8. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
9. Fire by Kristin Cashore
10. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

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2010 Teens' Top Ten

Vote now through September 17 for your favorite book for YALSA's 2010 Teens' Top Ten list.
Vote here.
Check our catalog to find books from the list.