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The PB, MG, and YA flowcharts were so popular last year we decided to do them again! Thanks to designer Phyllis Sa for the great layour. This is the Young Adult listings broken down by categories.

Looking for a great YA book?

Sports
All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Romance
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan

Humor
Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Since You Asked by Maurene Goo

Sci-fi
Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

Graphic novels
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
Tune: Book 1 Vanishing Point by Derek Kirk Kim
March: Book 2 by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

Fantasy
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Contemporary
If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
When Reason Breaks by Cindy Rodriguez
Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobia
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
Dreaming in Indian by edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Leatherdale

Action/thriller/horror
Endangered by Lamar Giles
Shutter by Courtney Alameda

Historical
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Black Dove, White Raven by Elisabeth Wein
Show and Prove by Sofia Quintero

Adventure
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

Non-fiction
Rad Women A-Z by Kate Schatz
Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something that Matters by Laurie Ann Thompson
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

Also check out these picks selected by WNDB
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabaz and Kekla Magoon
The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

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