Since I love making lists, I was going to come up with this sometime or the other. I should mention: these aren’t necessarily YA books (though the majority of them are); they’re books I loved and that I hope you love, too. (Also, they’re in no particular order.)

Series:

The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen

The Breadwinner trilogy by Deborah Ellis

Fantasy:

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken

Contemporary:

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah (omigosh, READ this one.)

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Historical Fiction:

The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Happy reading!