Aurora Award for Best YA Novel

The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best YA Novel was first awarded in 2013 as a separate category to the Best Novel category. Currently, the award has only been split for the English-language Award, and French YA novels would only be eligible for the Meilleur roman.

Charles de Lint and Fonda Lee have won the award the most number of times at twice each.

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year	Author(s)	Work	Publisher/Publication	Ref.
2013	Charles de Lint*	Under My Skin	Razorbill	[1]
	Leah Bobet	Above	Levine	[1]
	Kelley Armstrong	The Calling	HarperTeen	[1]
	Neil Godbout	Dissolve	Bundoran	[1]
	Michell Plested	Mich Murdoch, Teen Superhero	Five Rivers	[1]
	Cory Doctorow	Pirate Cinema	Tor Teen	[1]
2014	Kelley Armstrong*	The Rising	HarperTeen	[2]
	Marty Chan	Demon Gate	Fitzhenry & Whiteside	[2]
	Amanda Sun	Ink	Harlequin Teen	[2]
	S. M. Beiko	The Lake and the Library	ECW	[2]
	D. G. Ladroute	Out of Time	Five Rivers	[2]
	Neil Godbout	Resolve	Bundoran	[2]
2015	Karl Schroeder*	Lockstep	Tor	[3]
	Charles de Lint*	Out of this World	Razorbill	[3]
	Sherry Peters	Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf	Dwarvenamazon	[3]
	Amanda Sun	Rain	Harlequin Teen	[3]
	Kelley Armstrong	Sea of Shadows	Doubleday	[3]
	Edward Willett	Twist of the Blade	Coteau	[3]
	Charlene Challenger	The Voices in Between	Tightrope	[3]
2016	Leah Bobet*	An Inheritance of Ashes	Scholastic	[4]
	Caitlin Sweet	The Flame in the Maze	ChiZine	[4]
	Suzy Vadori	The Fountain	Evil Alter Ego	[4]
	Sherry Peters	Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf	Dwarvenamazon	[4]
	Jayne Barnard	Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond	Tyche	[4]
2017	James Bow*	Icarus Down	Scholastic	[5]
	Randy McCharles	Day of the Demon	CreateSpace	[5]
	Edward Willett	Door into Faerie	Coteau	[5]
	Michell Plested	Mik Murdoch: Crisis of Conscience	Evil Alter Ego	[5]
	Adam Dreece	The Wizard Killer	ADZO	[5]
2018	Fonda Lee*	Exo	Scholastic	[6]
	Elizabeth Whitton*	Houses of the Old Blood	Kettlescon	[6]
	Jayne Barnard	Maddie Hatter and the Gilded Gauge	Tyche	[6]
	S. M. Beiko	Scion of the Fox	ECW	[6]
	Suzy Vadori	The West Woods	Evil Alter Ego	[6]
2019	Fonda Lee*	Cross Fire	Scholastic	[7]
	S. M. Beiko	Children of the Bloodlands	ECW	[7]
	Clare C. Marshall	The Emerald Cloth	Faery Ink	[7]
	Nathan Burgoine	Exit Plan for Teenage Freaks	Bold Strokes	[7]
	J. M. Dover	Finding Atlantis	Evil Alter Ego	[7]
	Sarah Raughley	Legacy of Light	Simon Pulse	[7]
	Éric Desmarais	The Sign of Faust	Renaissance	[7]
	Alison Lohans	Timefall	Five Rivers	[7]
2020	Susan Forest*	Bursts of Fire	Laksa	[8]
	S. M. Beiko	The Brilliant Dark	ECW	[8]
	Marty Chan	Metamorphosis	Fitzhenry & Whiteside	[8]
	M. J. Lyons	Murder at the World's Fair	Renaissance	[8]
	Kelley Armstrong	Wolf's Bane	KLA Fricke	[8]
2021	Susan Forest*	Flights of Marigold	Laksa	[9]
	Kelley Armstrong	The Gryphon's Lair	Puffin Canada	[9]
	Rhonda Parrish	Hollow	Tyche	[9]
	J. M. Dover	Return to Atlantis	Evil Alter Ego	[9]
	Suzy Vadori	Wall of Wishes	Old Vines	[9]
2022	Wab Kinew*	Walking in Two Worlds	Penguin Teen	[10]
	Elizabeth Whitton	The Gold Flame of Senica	Kettlescon	[10]
	Xiran Jay Zhao	Iron Widow	Penguin Teen	[10]
	Kelley Armstrong	The Serpent's Fury	Puffin Canada	[10]
	Edward Willett	Star Song	Shadowpaw	[10]
2023	Douglas Smith*	The Hollow Boys	Spiral Path	[11]
	Ann Birdgenaw	Black Hole Radio (Ka'Azula : 3)	DartFrog	[11]
	Kenneth Oppel	Ghostlight	Puffin Canada	[11]
	Rati Mehrotra	Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove	Wednesday Books	[11]
	Xiran Jay Zhao	Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor	Margaret K. McElderry	[11]

References

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