No one can balance absurdity and tragedy quite like Lemony Snicket. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the number of great YA books to read, you can also take our 30-second quiz below to narrow it down quickly and get a personalized YA book recommendation 😉 Without further ado, here are the 115 best young adult books of all time. So to compile this masterpost, we asked our community of 300,000 readers to vote for their favorite teenage books.

So what are the greatest teenage books ever? It's a question that's too vast for any one person to answer. Indeed, young adult books have stepped up onto the literary stage as a powerful genre in its own right, creating role models for all of us and leading important conversations about personhood, gender, sexuality, and race. Luckily for us, it truly is the golden age for young adult fiction right now, as YA authors today continue to take the genre in new and incredibly exciting directions.

Who can forget the first time they met irresistible, fast-talking Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables ? Or the years that they spent growing up with Harry, Hermione, and Ron? Or the breakneck, can’t-tear-your-eyes-away sequences that made The Hunger Games an international phenomenon? However much teachers will make you read classics like Moby-Dick or Great Expectations, chances are that many of the books you’ll keep closest to your heart are the teenage books you read.

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