Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won an Eisner Award, a Lodestar Award, an Award, a Nebula Award, and a Newbery honor.
Thirteen Reasons Why is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007, that follows the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, and the thirteen reasons why she kills herself. Following her death, Hannah leaves behind a series of 7 double-sided cassette tapes detailing the 13 specific people and events that she blames for her demise. Two weeks after her death these cassette tapes are mailed out with directions to pass the tapes on to the next person on the tape. Hannah's life story is conveyed through these tapes, which are narrated by Hannah herself, and through the point of view of Clay, her classmate and the ninth person to receive the tapes. The inspiration behind the main character, Hannah Baker, comes from author Jay Asher's close relative who attempted suicide.
Ali Benjamin is an American author living in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Ahsoka, also known as Star Wars: Ahsoka, is a Star Wars young adult novel written by E. K. Johnston, from an outline by Dave Filoni, published in October 2016. Set between the events of the 3D CGI animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018) and Disney+ TV series Ahsoka (2023), it is centered on the character Ahsoka Tano, the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker. In 2020, Ahsoka's role in the Siege of Mandalore and Order 66, described in the novel as backstory, was adapted as the four-part series finale of the revival of The Clone Wars, written by Filoni and directed by Saul Ruiz and Nathaniel Villanueva. In 2022, the main events of Ahsoka were adapted as "Resolve", the first season finale of Tales of the Jedi, written by Filoni and directed by Ruiz, replacing the novel's role in Star Wars canon.
Tobias Iaconis is a German American screenwriter. His writing partner is Mikki Daughtry. He is best known for writing, with Daughtry, the films The Curse of La Llorona (2019), Five Feet Apart (2019) and Nightbooks (2021).
Children of Eden is a dystopian young adult novel released by YouTube personality Joey Graceffa on October 4, 2016.
Emergency Contact is a 2018 young adult novel by Mary H.K. Choi. It is her debut novel and was published on March 27, 2018 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Emergency Contact is a love story conducted primarily by text message, with Penny, a Korean-American freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, giving Sam her number after she happens to be passing by as Sam has his first panic attack.
Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate.
Andrea Nicole Livingstone, known as Nic Stone, is an American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her middle grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages.
Tiffany D. Jackson is a New York Times Bestselling American author of young adult fiction and a horror filmmaker, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated debut novel Allegedly.
Melissa Albert is an American author of young adult fiction.
Stephanie Garber is an American author of young adult fiction known for the Caraval series.
Dhonielle Clayton is an American author and chief operating officer of We Need Diverse Books.
Brigid Kemmerer is an American author of young adult fiction. She worked in the finance industry before becoming a full-time writer. Her novel A Curse So Dark and Lonely, an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, was a New York Times bestseller and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Her standalone novel More Than We Can Tell received a starred review from the School Library Journal.
Travis John Klune is an American author of fantasy and romantic fiction featuring gay and LGBTQ+ characters. His fantasy novel The House in the Cerulean Sea is a New York Times best seller and winner of the 2021 Alex and Mythopoeic Awards. Klune has spoken about how his asexuality influences his writing. His novel Into This River I Drown won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance in 2014.
When Dimple Met Rishi is a 2017 American young adult romance novel by Sandhya Menon. It tells the story of 18-year-old Indian American Dimple Shah who meets a boy named Rishi Patel at a web developing camp in San Francisco and the two fall in love. The novel was released on 30 May 2017 and became a best seller in The New York Times Best Seller list. It is also available as an audiobook narrated by Sneha Mathan and Vikas Adam at Audible. When Dimple Met Rishi was adapted into a Netflix series titled Mismatched, which released in 2020.
Dear Martin, published in 2017 by Crown Publishing Group, is a young adult novel by Nic Stone. It is Stone's debut novel, written as a reaction to the murder of Jordan Davis. The book appeared as #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Tracy Deonn is an American author. Her debut novel Legendborn (2020) was a New York Times bestseller and received a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent and the 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Young Adult Novel. The sequel novel Bloodmarked was published in 2022 and also became a New York Times bestseller.
Sadie is a novel written by Courtney Summers. The book was released on September 4, 2018, and is told from two perspectives: some chapters offering Sadie's point of view and some chapters being styled as transcripts from a podcast called "The Girls" hosted by a man named West McCray. The release of the book was accompanied by the release of a mock true-crime podcast titled The Girls: Find Sadie which is available on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.
Shea Ernshaw is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestselling author known for her novels The Wicked Deep and Long Live The Pumpkin Queen, which was a sequel to Tim Burton's classic film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Her books have been published in over twenty countries, and her novels A History of Wild Places,The Wicked Deep, and Winterwood were Indie Next Picks.
