List of young adult fiction writers

This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here.

Atia Abawi: A Land of Permanent Goodbyes
Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found
Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys, The Bridesmaid, The Perfect Boy
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades
Marguerite Abouet: Aya
Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X, Clap When You Land, With the Fire on High
Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone
Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven
Renée Ahdieh: The Wrath & the Dawn, Flame in the Mist
Melissa Albert: The Hazel Wood
Becky Albertalli: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins
Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
S.K. Ali: Saints & Misfits, Love from A to Z
Isabel Allende: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Forest of the Pygmies
David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
Adi Alsaid: Let's Get Lost, Never Always Sometimes
Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted, Wintergirls
M. T. Anderson: Feed, The Pox Party
Jesse Andrews: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
V. C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic
Josephine Angelini: Starcrossed trilogy
Anthony: A Journey, through Time, with Anthony
Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time
Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House, The Incredible Sixties, Treason in America
Jennifer Armentrout: Covenant series, Lux series, Dark Elements series, Cursed
Kelley Armstrong: Darkest Powers
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Den of Shadows series, Kiesha'ra series
Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen
Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Nafiza Azad: The Candle and the Flame

Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
Helen Bailey: Electra Brown series
Catherine Banner: The Last Descendants series
Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows
Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Inheritance Games series, Debutantes series, The Fixer series, The Naturals series
T. A. Barron: The Ancient One
John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth
Karen Bass: Graffiti Knight
Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person
Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael
L. Frank Baum: Aunt Jane's Nieces series
Patricia Beatty: Lupita Mañana, Charley Skedaddle, Eight Mules from Monterey, Bonanza Girl, Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If It Doesn't Kill You
David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty
Clare Bell: Ratha series
Robin Benway: Far from the Tree
Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story
Julie Berry: All the Truth That's in Me
Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone, Revolution 2020
Tanaz Bhathena: A Girl Like That, The Beauty of the Moment
Lisa Jenn Bigelow: Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Franny Billingsley: The Folk Keeper, Chime
Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Modern Faerie Tales, The Folk of the Air series
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses series
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Gwenda Bond: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds, Girl on a Wire series, Lois Lane series, Match Made in Hell series
Frank Bonham: Durango Street
Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter
Natasha Bowen: Skin of the Sea
Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
Akemi Dawn Bowman: Starfish
Alexandra Bracken: The Darkest Minds
Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Liz Braswell: The Nine Lives of Chloe King series
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing, Beauty Queens, The Diviners
Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
Kate Brian: The Virginity Club, Private series
Rae Bridgman: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
Lauren Brooke: Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
Vera Brosgol: Anya's Ghost
Roseanne A. Brown: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
N. M. Browne: Warriors of Alavna, Wolf Blood, Shadow Web
Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series
Elizabeth C. Bunce: A Curse Dark as Gold, Thief Errant series StarCrossed, Liar's Moon
Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
Melvin Burgess: Junk, Doing It
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy
Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers
Candace Bushnell: The Carrie Diaries
Julie Buxbaum: Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next

Meg Cabot: The Mediator, 1-800-Where-R-U, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
Rachel Caine: The Morganville Vampires series
Deb Caletti: The Nature of Jade, The Secret Life of Prince Charming, The Six Rules of Maybe
Kacen Callender: Felix Ever After
W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog's Purpose
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Patrick Carman: Atherton: The House of Power, Skeleton Creek, Trackers
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
Ally Carter: The Gallagher Girls, Heist Society
Russell Gordon Carter: Three Points of Honor, The White Plume of Navarre, Patriot Lad series
Kristin Cashore: Graceling
Kiera Cass: The Selection series
Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps
Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast: House of Night series
Cecil Castellucci: Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, Beige, Tin Star
Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
Betty Cavanna: Going On Sixteen, A Date for Diane, Stamp Twice for Murder
Michael Chabon: Summerland
Soman Chainani: The School for Good and Evil series
Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Traci Chee: Sea of Ink and Gold, We Are Not Free
Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
Cinda Williams Chima: The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms
Mary H.K. Choi: Emergency Contact, Permanent Record
Roshani Chokshi: The Star Touched Queen series, The Gilded Wolves series
John Christopher: Prince in Waiting trilogy, Tripods trilogy
Lucy Christopher: Stolen
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices
Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
Dhonielle Clayton: The Belles
Rosemary Clement-Moore: Texas Gothic, The Splendor Falls, Prom Dates from Hell, Hell Week, Highway to Hell
Ernest Cline: Ready Player One
Robbie Coburn: The Foal in the Wire (novel in verse)
Rachel Cohn: Gingerbread, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Brock Cole: The Goats
Chris Colfer: Stranger Than Fanfiction
Sneed B. Collard III: Double Eagle, Cartwheel
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Trilogy
Ying Chang Compestine: Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Ally Condie: Matched, Crossed, Reached
Ellen Conford: Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate, We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin
Pam Conrad: My Daniel
Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series, King of Shadows
Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
Bruce Coville: Aliens Ate My Homework, Armageddon Summer, Fortune's Journey
John Coy: Crackback, Box Out
Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Ruby Holler
Linda Crew: Children of the River
Cath Crowley: Words in Deep Blue
Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
Mike Curato: Flamer
Jane Louise Curry: The Watchers, A Stolen Life, The Black Canary
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud, Not Buddy
Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
Leah Cypess: Death Sworn, Mistwood

Anita Daher: Spider's Song, Two Foot Punch, Forgetting How to Breathe
Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Maria Dahvana Headley: Magonia
Linden Dalecki: Kid B
Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
Emily Danforth: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
James Dashner: The Maze Runner series
Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
Pieretta Dawn: The Mermaid Apprentices, The Nymph Treasury
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
Zoey Dean: The A-List series
Melissa de la Cruz: Blue Bloods
Tracy Deonn: Legendborn
Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever, Lock and Key
Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
Graham Diamond: The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody, The Snake-Stone, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form
Jennifer Donnelly: A Northern Light, Revolution
Siobhan Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry, Bog Child
Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
Jenny Downham: Before I Die
Sharon Draper: Tears of a Tiger, The Battle of Jericho, Copper Sun, Romiette and Julio
Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet
Rosamond du Jardin: Practically Seventeen, Double Date, Wait for Marcy
Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember

Jennifer Echols: Forget You, Going Too Far, Love Story, The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer, The One That I Want, Such A Rush
Sara Bergmark Elfgren: Engelsfors
Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction, Chain Reaction
Zetta Elliott: A Wish After Midnight, Ship of Souls, Mother of the Sea
Anne Emery: Dinny Gordon series, The Popular Crowd
Akwaeke Emezi: Pet
Sylvia Engdahl: Enchantress from the Stars, This Star Shall Abide

Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird
Hafsah Faizal: We Hunt the Flame
Sara Farizan: If You Could Be Mine
Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls
Tim Federle: The Great American Whatever
Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic, Incarceron
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence
Jasper Fforde: The Last Dragonslayer
Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater, Beastly, Cloaked
Timothée de Fombelle: Toby Alone, Vango
Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing
Lani Forbes: Age of the Seventh Sun
Antonia Forest: Peter's Room, Thuggery Affair, The Attic Term
Gayle Forman: If I Stay, Where She Went, Just One Day, I Was Here
Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
E.R. Frank: Life Is Funny, America, Wrecked, Friction
Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games, The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
Benedict and Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
Russell Freedman: Lincoln: A Photobiography, The Life and Death of Crazy Horse, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Discovered
Barbara C. Freeman: The Other Face, A Haunting Air, Snow in the Maze
Mark Frost: The Paladin Prophecy
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider

Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World, The Orange Girl
Claudia Gabel: In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires
Neil Gaiman: Coraline, The Graveyard Book
Eric Gansworth: Apple (Skin to the Core)
Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza series, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
Stephanie Garber: Caraval series
Kami Garcia: Beautiful Creatures
Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
Sally Gardner: I, Coriander, Maggot Moon
Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
Adèle Geras: Troy, Happy Ever After, Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
M-E Girard: Girl Mans Up
Morris Gleitzman: Two Weeks with the Queen, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat
Anna Godbersen: Luxe series: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
Glenda Goertzen: Lady Oak Abroad
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Chloe Gong: These Violent Delights
Michael Grant: Gone
Claudia Gray: Firebird series, Spellcaster series, Evernight series
John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Turtles All the Way Down
Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
Robert Joseph Greene: This High School Has Closets
Adele Griffin: The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, Loud Awake & Lost
John Grisham: Theodore Boone series
Robin Jones Gunn: Christy Miller series, Sierra Jensen series
Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance

Robin Ha: Almost American Girl
PJ Haarsma: The Softwire series
Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Found
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Shannon Hale: The Books of Bayern series, Princess Academy
Alex Hall: Ben Drowned series
Barbara Hall: Dixie Storms, House across the Cove, Tempo Change
Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Meredith Gentry series
Jenny Han: The Summer I Turned Pretty, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Victoria Hanley: Seer and the Sword series
Lisi Harrison: The Clique, Monster High
Alix E. Harrow: The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches
Brent Hartinger: Geography Club
Rachel Hartman: Seraphina, Tess of the Road
Sonya Hartnett: Sleeping Dogs, Thursday's Child, Surrender
James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisholm, The Geography of Hope
Pete Hautman: Godless, Invisible
Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
Rachel Hawkins: Hex Hall series, Rebel Belle trilogy
Lian Hearn: Across the Nightingale Floor
Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction): Red Planet, Farmer in the Sky
Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush, Scat
Brenda Hiatt: Starstruck
Charlie Higson: Young Bond
S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now
Will Hobbs: Downriver, Far North, Crossing the Wire
Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow
Linda Holeman: Promise Song, Mercy's Birds, Raspberry House Blues
Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
Stevin Hoover: The Hannah Chronicles: Book One, The Door in the Floor
Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series
Ellen Hopkins: Crank
Anthony Horowitz: The Power of Five series, The Diamond Brothers, Alex Rider
Erin Hunter: Warriors series, New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
Mollie Hunter: The Stronghold, A Stranger Came Ashore, Cat, Herself
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jordan Ifueko: Raybearer
Wendy Isdell: A Gebra Named Al, The Chemy Called Al

Holly Jackson: Good Girl's Guide to Murder series
Tiffany D. Jackson: Allegedly, Monday's Not Coming, Grown
Brian Jacques: Redwall series
Adiba Jaigirdar: The Henna Wars
A. M. Jenkins: Damage, Repossessed, Night Road
Alaya Dawn Johnson: Love Is the Drug, The Summer Prince
Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
Catherine Johnson: Sawbones, The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo
George Matthew Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue
Leah Johnson: You Should See Me in a Crown
Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, The Name of the Star, Truly Devious
E. K. Johnston: Ashoka, A Thousand Nights
Carrie Jones: Need, Captivate, Entice
Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin, Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways
Graham Joyce: TWOC, Do the Creepy Thing, Three Ways to Snog an Alien

Stacey Kade: The Ghost and the Goth
Julie Kagawa: Iron Fey series, Blood of Eden series
Lauren Kate: Fallen, Torment, Passion
Amie Kaufman: Illuminae Files series, Starbound trilogy
Marilyn Kaye: Gifted series
Brian Keaney: Jacob's Ladder, The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown
Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
Kody Keplinger: The DUFF
M. E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
Alexander Key: The Incredible Tide
Mahmona Khan: Skitten Snø, Fra Oslo til Lahore, Når du minst venter det
Celine Kiernan: The Poison Throne, Into the Grey
Patrice Kindl: Owl in Love, Goose Chase
A. S. King: Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Ask the Passengers
David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
TJ Klune: The Extraordinaries
Elizabeth Knox: Dreamhunter, Dreamquake, Mortal Fire
Ron Koertge: The Arizona Kid
E. L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
Alethea Kontis: Woodcutter Sisters series
Gordon Korman: Macdonald Hall series, Island series, Jake, Reinvented, No More Dead Dogs, The 39 Clues: One False Note & The Emperor's Code
Jay Kristoff: Illuminae Files series, Lifel1k3
Naomi Kritzer: Catfishing on CatNet
Alice Kuipers: Life on the Refrigerator Door, The Worst Thing She Ever Did, 40 Things I Want To Tell You

Nina LaCour: Hold Still, Everything Leads to You, We Are Okay, Watch Over Me
Elizabeth Laird: Red Sky in the Morning, Jake's Tower, A Little Piece of Ground
Janet Lambert: Star Spangled Summer, Introducing Parri
Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant
Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Liar
Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
Patrice Lawrence: Orangeboy, Indigo Donut, Eight Pieces of Silva, Needle
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
Martine Leavitt: My Book of Life by Angel, Keturah and Lord Death, Calvin
Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
Peter Lerangis: Seven Wonders series
Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Every Day, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
Malinda Lo: Ash, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
E. Lockhart: We Were Liars, The Boyfriend List, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks,
Ruth Frances Long: The Treachery of Beautiful Things, A Crack in Everything
Maud Lovelace: Heaven to Betsy, Betsy and the Great World
Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
Marie Lu: Legend, Prodigy, Champion, Warcross
Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
Frances Lynn: Crushed

Sarah J. Maas: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love and Other Four Letter Words
Tahereh Mafi: Shatter Me series
Kekla Magoon: How it Went Down, X
Michelle Magorian: A Little Love Song
Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella, Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Shelby Mahurin: Serpent & Dove series
Margaret Mahy: Alchemy, The Changeover
Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar Girl
Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh series
Melina Marchetta: Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road, Finnikin of the Rock
Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
John Marsden: Tomorrow series
Ann M. Martin: California Diaries
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
Syed M. Masood: The Bad Muslim Discount, More Than Just a Pretty Face
Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
Megan McCafferty: Jessica Darling series, Bumped, Thumped
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern, The Ship Who Sang, Dinosaur Planet
Norah McClintock: The Mike & Riel series, The Robyn Hunter series, The Chloe & Levesque series
Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
Mindy McGinnis: Be Not Far from Me, Heroine, The Female of the Species
Anthony McGowan: The Knife That Killed Me, Hello Darkness, The Truth of Things series
Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway
Sharon E. McKay: Charlie Wilcox, War Brothers, Prison Boy
Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
Anna-Marie McLemore: When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty
Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone
Karen M. McManus: One of Us Is Lying
Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy series, Bloodlines, The Golden Lily
Stephen W. Meader: Bulldozer, Commodore's Cup, T Model Tommy
Meg Medina: Burn Baby Burn, Milagros: Girl from Away, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
O. R. Melling: The Hunter's Moon
Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man
Sandhya Menon: When Dimple Met Rishi
Melinda Metz: Roswell High, Fingerprints
Marissa Meyer: The Lunar Chronicles, Renegades
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The Host, Life and Death
Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
Sarah Mlynowski: Bras and Broomsticks
James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books
Patrick Moore: Scott Saunders Space Adventure series
Perry Moore: Hero
Kass Morgan: The 100
Lorin Morgan-Richards: A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels, The Goodbye Family
Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
Brandon Mull: Fablehaven series, Beyonders series, The Candy Shop War, The Arcade Catastrophe, Pingo
Mike Mullin: Ashfall
Julie Murphy: Side Effects May Vary, Dumplin', Puddin'
Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches

Beverley Naidoo: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, Web of Lies
Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound, Sirena
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh, Alice series
Jandy Nelson: The Sky Is Everywhere, I'll Give You the Sun
Patrick Ness: More Than This, Chaos Walking
Trung Le Nguyen: The Magic Fish
William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
Susin Nielsen: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, We Are All Made of Molecules, No Fixed Address
Jennifer Niven: All the Bright Places
Garth Nix: The Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower
Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark, The Name of the Game Was Murder, The Haunting
Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars Are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast Master
Naomi Novik: Scholomance trilogy

Joyce Carol Oates: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles, True Love
Patrick O'Connor: The Black Tiger, Mexican Road Race, The Society of Foxes
Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Nnedi Okorafor: Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch
Daniel José Older: Shadowshaper
Lauren Oliver: Delirium, Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls, Replica
Louise O'Neill: Only Ever Yours, Asking For It
Tochi Onyebuchi: War Girls
Alice Oseman: Solitaire, Radio Silence, Heartstopper, Loveless

Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
Emily X.R. Pan: The Astonishing Color of After
Kevin Panetta: Bloom
Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, The 39 Clues: Storm Warning
Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High, Fearless series, The Ruling Class
Sonia Patel: Rani Patel in Full Effect, Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story, Bloody Seoul
Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
James Patterson: Maximum Ride series, Witch and Wizard series, Daniel X series
Gary Paulsen: Brian's Saga, Canyons, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
Jackson Pearce: As You Wish, Sisters Red
Mary E. Pearson: A Room on Lorelei Street, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Richard Peck: A Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
Mal Peet: The Penalty, Keeper, Exposure, Tamar
Anna Perera: Guantanamo Boy, The Glass Collector
Stephanie Perkins: Anna and the French Kiss
Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Luna, Define Normal
Stefan Petrucha: TimeTripper, Ripper, Teen, Inc., The Rule of Won
Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
K. M. Peyton: Flambards, The Right-Hand Man, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
James Phelan: The Last Thirteen, Alone
Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
Ben Philippe: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
Jodi Picoult: Between the Lines, My Sister's Keeper
Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel trilogy, The Firebringer trilogy
Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen, Provost's Dog, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens
Aprilynne Pike: Wings
Christopher Pike: Chain Letter, Remember Me, Alosha
Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring, The Perilous Gard
Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark
Philip Pullman: Sally Lockhart series, His Dark Materials trilogy

Matthew Quick: Sorta Like a Rockstar, Boy21, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Every Exquisite Thing
Dawn Quigley: Apple in the Middle, Jo Jo Makoons

Bali Rai: (Un)arranged Marriage, Fire City, Killing Honour, Rani & Sukh, The Crew, The Whisper, Angel Collector, The Last Taboo, The Gun, Shivers.
Janette Rallison: It's a Mall World After All, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress, The Wish House, The Vanished, The Cunning Man, Pirates!
David Rees: Storm Surge, Quintin's Man, In the Tent, Risks
Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant
Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
Kathryn Reiss: The Glass House People, Dreadful Sorry, PaperQuake, Blackthorn Winter
Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, ...And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand
Jason Reynolds: All American Boys, Boy in the Black Suit, Long Way Down, Ghost
Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe, Boot Camp
Randy Ribay: Patron Saints of Nothing, After the Shot Drops
Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson series
Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
Malcolm Rose: Traces series, The Death Gene, Plague, Transplant, The Tortured Wood
Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was
Veronica Rossi: Under the Never Sky, Through the Ever Night, Into the Still Blue
Veronica Roth: Divergent trilogy, Carve the Mark
Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Carry On
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series
Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
Anna Rutgers van der Loeff: Children on the Oregon Trail (De Kinderkaravaan)
Marie Rutkoski: The Winner's trilogy
Cynthia Rylant: Missing May, I Had Seen Castles, God Went to Beauty School
C. J. Redwine: Defiance Trilogy, the Ravenspire series and Rise of the Vicious Princess Series

Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle Dogs, Eyes of the Emperor
Liselle Sambury: Blood Like Magic
Alex Sánchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
Erika Sánchez: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Brandon Sanderson: Skyward series
Gavril Savit: Anna and the Swallow Man, The Way Back
Kurtis Scaletta: Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
Ellen Schreiber: Vampire Kisses series
Victoria Schwab: Monsters of Verity series
Elizabeth Scott: Bloom, Perfect You, Stealing Heaven, Living Dead Girl, Something Maybe, Love You Hate You Miss You
Kieran Scott: I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
Michael Scott: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White, My Swordhand is Singing
Ruta Sepetys: Between Shades of Gray, Salt to the Sea, I Must Betray You
Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak), The Demonata, The City, The Saga of Larten Crepsley
Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars series, The Lying Game
Zoa Sherburne: Jennifer, Too Bad About the Haines Girl
Valerie Sherrard: Sarah's Legacy, Testify, Counting Back from Nine, The Glory Wind
Gena Showalter: Intertwined
Mark Shulman: Scrawl, Secret Hiding Places
Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
Adam Silvera: More Happy Than Not, They Both Die at the End
Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
Sarah Singleton: Century, Heretic, Sacrifice, The Amethyst Child, The Poison Garden
Alan Lawrence Sitomer: The Hoopster, Hip Hop High School, Homeboyz
William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar Pig
Andrew A. Smith: Grasshopper Jungle, Winger
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle
L. J. Smith: The Vampire Diaries, Night World, The Forbidden Game, The Secret Circle, Dark Visions
Roland Smith: Peak
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
Ivan Southall: Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West, the Simon Black series.
Beatrice Sparks (publishing as Anonymous): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
Nicholas Sparks: The Notebook, The Last Song, Dear John, A Walk To Remember
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
Nancy Springer: I Am Mordred, I Am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie, The Boy on a Black Horse
ND Stevenson: Nimona
Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, A College of Magics, River Rats
Maggie Stiefvater: The Wolves of Mercy Falls, The Raven Cycle
R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
Laurie Faria Stolarz: Blue is for Nightmares, Project 17
Nic Stone: Dear Martin
Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
Francisco X. Stork: Marcelo in the Real World
Mats Strandberg: Engelsfors
Todd Strasser: Boot Camp, Give a Boy a Gun, The Accident, Can't Get There from Here
Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
Zoe Sugg: Girl Online
Deirdre Sullivan: Perfectly Preventable Deaths, Needlework, Tangleweed and Brine
Nova Ren Suma: Imaginary Girls, The Walls Around Us
Courtney Summers: Sadie
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord
Krystal Sutherland: Our Chemical Hearts, House of Hollow
Tabitha Suzuma: From Where I Stand, Forbidden, Hurt

Robin Talley: Lies We Tell Ourselves
Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes
Mariko Tamaki: This One Summer, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
Laini Taylor: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Strange the Dreamer
Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
Aiden Thomas: Cemetery Boys
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give, On the Come Up
Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God, Green Thumb
Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
Johanna Thydell: In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining
Sharon Tregenza: Tarantula Tide
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Ngozi Ukazu: Check, Please!
Eleanor Updale: Montmorency

Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man, Dragon's Bait
Wendelin Van Draanen: Sammy Keyes series, Flipped, The Running Dream, Wild Bird, Runaway
Lizzie Velásquez: Be Beautiful, Be You
Siobhan Vivian: The List, Burn for Burn trilogy (co-written with Jenny Han), The Last Boy and Girl in the World
Ned Vizzini: It's Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill
Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Bad Girls
Seita Vuorela: Viimi, Karikko, Lumi

Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, Violet in Private, Lovestruck Summer
Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses
Eric Walters: The Hydrofoil Mystery, Camp X, Shattered
Jen Wang: The Prince and the Dressmaker
James Watson: Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger
Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy
Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity
Dan Wells: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Partials Sequence
Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, The Rules of Survival
Scott Westerfeld: Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series, Leviathan series
Suzanne Weyn: The Bar Code Tattoo
John Corey Whaley: Where Things Come Back
Alex Wheatle: Liccle Bit, Crongton Knights
Gloria Whelan: Homeless Bird
Kiersten White: Paranormalcy
Ysabeau S. Wilce: The Flora Segunda series
Terry Lee Wilde: The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deidre's Secret
Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
Rita Williams-Garcia: Like Sisters on the Homefront, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, No Laughter Here
N. D. Wilson: The Dragon's Tooth, Boys of Blur, The Legend of Sam Miracle
Pam Withers: Take It to the Xtreme series, Daredevil Club, First Descent
Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
Yu Wo: ½ Prince
Allan Wolf: The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep, The Watch That Ends the Night, New Found Land
Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
Christopher Wooding: Broken Sky, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief, Poison, Kerosene, End Game
Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys, Brown Girl Dreaming
Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)
Diana Wynne Jones: See above, Jones.

Rick Yancey: The 5th Wave
Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
Honobu Yonezawa: Hyōka
David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
Nicola Yoon: Everything, Everything, The Sun Is Also a Star

Allen Zadoff: Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Prince of Mist, Marina
Timothy Zahn: Dragonback series
Sara Zarr: Story of a Girl, How to Save a Life, Once Was Lost
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Kat Zhang: What's Left of Me
Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow
Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girl series, It Girl series
Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, My Darling, My Hamburger, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
Ibi Zoboi: American Street, Pride
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief, The Messenger

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