The 12 best Young Adult fictions ever written. How many have you read?

Shy, awkward, and introspective Charlie starts freshman year of high school reluctant to mingle with the overbearing crowd, but eager to figure out how his life will turn out. When he befriends two seniors, he's pulled into a life of parties, drugs, music, and drama, and finds his whole world opening up. No, the book is not about a good boy gone bad.
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This classic novel based on the author’s life is an endearing tale of four sisters whose family fortune is lost in the midst of the Civil War.
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Eleanor and Park are two misfits in the society who are perfect for each other. They meet on the school bus and fall in love. This is the story of one year in their lives, as they bond over shared love of comics and music, and face heartbreaking issues of race and child abuse.
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Terminally ill Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet at a cancer support group and fall hopelessly in love. Their love for each other promises to make their little time on earth worth remembering. This heartbreaking tear-jerker is a beautifully written story about finding hope even after the death of a loved one.
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Everything, Everything follows the young Madeline Whittier, who is allergic to the outside world until she falls in love with the boy next door. The book is about the thrill and heartbreak that happens when we break out of our shell to do crazy, sometimes death-defying things for love.
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The series retells multiple fairy tales including The Beauty and the Beast and Hades and Persephone with faerie lore. The trilogy focuses on the tale of Feyre, as she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian, after murdering a faerie.
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Funny, heartbreaking, and beautifully written, the novel is based on the author's own experiences. Illustrated with amazing drawings by Ellen Forney, the book chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
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In an unflinchingly candid look at sexual assault and its aftermath, Johnston uses the structure of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale for the story of a 17-year-old cheerleader, Hermione, who is raped at cheer camp, can't remember the attack, and faces difficult decisions as she moves forward from the trauma.
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The introvert Clay Jensen receives a mysterious package after the suicide of his classmate Hannah Baker, and he checks out the content inside the package, he sets out to track down the people responsible for her suicide. The book is a moving and alarming tale of teenage suicide where young people are often victimized for trivial reasons and deals on the importance of proper parental guidance.

This classic 1984 tale is about the life of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes saddening, sometimes deeply joyous, it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become.
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This dark and gripping dystopian trilogy follows the adventures and feats of Katniss Everdeen, subjected to save her district and the remnants of her family by participating in a sinister reality-TV game show, The Hunger Games, where she must emerge victorious by diabolical means.
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Narrated by Death, the story follows a little girl names Leisel in World War II Germany, finds solace in stealing books and sharing them with others, including Jewish refugees housed by her parents.
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