Given out by YALSA, the Best Fiction for Young Adults includes the best fiction for ages 12-18.  Books included on the list must be both high quality literature and appealing to teens.  There are 113 books on the full list and also a top ten:

   

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

  

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

  

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Shine by Lauren Myracle

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall