Here are my top selections for the best books for teens in 2014.  Please share your favorites in the comments since try as I may, I never manage to make it through all books published during the year!

 

100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

Beetle Boy by Margaret Wiley

 

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn

 

A Creature of Moonlight by Rebecca Hahn

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

 

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King

Half Bad by Sally Green

 

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins

 

Never Ending by Martyn Bedford

Noggin by John Corey Whaley

 

Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

 

The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos

She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

 

The Story of Owen by E. K. Johnston

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

 

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

 

Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wildlife by Fiona Wood

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski