YALSA has announced their Teens’ Top Ten nominees for 2020. The list is a teen choice list where teens nominate and select their favorite books from the year before. The list will be shortened to the official top ten after teens vote online from August 15 through October 12. Winners are announced the following week.
Here are the 25 nominated titles:
#MurderFunding by Gretchen McNeil
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi. Translated by Cathy Hirano
Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Illustrated by Frances Castle
Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection by Victoria Aveyard
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki. Illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Lovely War by Julie Berry
The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
My Ideal Boyfriend is a Croissant by Laura Dockrill
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell. Illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins
Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World by Jeff Henigson
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo