List of young adult writers

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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.

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Elizabeth Acevedo
  • 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
  • Renee 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

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N. M. Browne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Frank Bonham: Durango Street
  • Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter
  • Natasha Bowen: Skin of the Sea
  • Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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Cassandra Clare
  • 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
  • Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land
  • Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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Sharon Draper
  • 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
  • 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

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  • 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
  • Anne Emery: Dinny Gordon series, The Popular Crowd
  • Akwaeke Emezi: Pet

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Jasper Fforde
  • 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
Jack Gantos

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • John Grisham: Theodore Boone series
  • Robin Jones Gunn: Christy Miller series, Sierra Jensen series
  • Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance

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Linda Holeman
  • 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: Princess Academy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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K[]

A. S. King
  • 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
  • Mahmona Khan: Skitten Snø, Fra Oslo til Lahore, Når du minst venter det
  • Celine Kiernan: The Poison Throne, Into the Grey
  • A. S. King: Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Ask the Passengers
  • Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
  • 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
  • Alice Kuipers: Life on the Refrigerator Door, The Worst Thing She Ever Did, 40 Things I Want To Tell You

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Barry Lyga
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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Julie Murphy
  • 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
  • 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 McManus: One of Us Is Lying
  • Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy series, Bloodlines, The Golden Lily
  • Stephen 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
  • 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

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Joyce Carol Oates
  • 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 / Abhorsen 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

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Stefan Petrucha
  • 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, 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
  • Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
  • Jodi Picoult: Between the Lines, My Sister's Keeper
  • 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

Q[]

R[]

Janette Rallison
  • 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
  • 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 Tourtured 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

S[]

Nova Ren Suma
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

T[]

Angie Thomas
  • 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

U[]

  • Ngozi Ukazu: Check, Please!
  • Eleanor Updale: Montmorency

V[]

  • 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

W[]

Kiersten White
  • 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
  • Alex Wheatle: Liccle Bit, Crongton Knights
  • 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
  • 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.

Y[]

Markus Zusak
  • 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

Z[]

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