We did it! Our Committee of 15 nominated 113 titles to be considered for Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2015. You can find out what the titles are with short annotations on the official ALA/YALSA site.
Here’s a simplified list with just titles — Any surprises? Favorites? Comment away :)
| Al Said, Adi | Let’s Get Lost |
| Anderson, Jodi Lynn | The Vanishing Season |
| Arnett, Mindee | Avalon |
| Aronson, Marc | One Death, Nine Stories |
| Bassoff, Leah & Laura DeLuca | Lost Girl Found |
| Brezenoff, Steve | Guy in Real Life |
| Caletti, Deb | The Last Forever |
| DeWoskin, Rachel | Blind |
| Fine, Sarah | Of Metal and Wishes |
| Foley, Jessie Ann | The Carnival at Bray |
| Fombelle, Timothee de | Vango |
| Giles, Gail | Girls Like Us |
| Gold, Jennifer | Soldier Doll |
| Griffin, Bethany | The Fall |
| Hosie, Donna | The Devil’s Intern |
| Kiernan, Celine | Into the Grey |
| King, A.S. | Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future |
| Knudsen, Michelle | Evil Librarian |
| LaMarche, Una | Like No Other |
| Maas, Sarah | Heir of Fire |
| Magoon, Kekla | How It Went Down |
| Mathieu, Jennifer | The Truth About Alice |
| McGovern, Cammie | Say What You Will |
| Mesrobian, Carrie | Perfectly Good White Boy |
| Miller, Lauren | Free to Fall |
| Moracho, Cristina | Althea & Oliver |
| Nix, Garth | Clariel |
| Parker, Natalie C. | Beware the Wild |
| Parsons, Mark Huntley | Road Rash |
| Pearson, Mary E. | The Kiss of Deception |
| Polonsky, Ami | Gracefully Grayson |
| Ritter, William | Jackaby |
| Smith, Andrew | 100 Sideways Miles |
| Smith, Jennifer E. | The Geography of You and Me |
| Spears, Kat | Sway |
| Stiefvater, Maggie | Blue Lily, Lily Blue |
| Talkington, Amy | Liv, Forever |
| Tregay, Sarah | Fan Art |
| Walrath, Dana | Like Water on Stone |
| Zarr, Sara | Roomies |
| Aslan, Austin | The Islands at the End of the World |
| Fredericks, Mariah | Season of the Witch |
| Kizer, Amber | Pieces of Me |
| Phillips, LInda Vigen | Crazy |
| Schrefer, Eliot | Threatened |
| Smith, Sherwood & Brown, Rachel Manija | Stranger |
| Tintera, Amy | Rebel |
| Willey, Margaret | Beetle Boy |
| Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover |
| Almond, David | The True Tale of Monster Billy Dean |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | The Impossible Knife of Memory |
| Armentrout, Jennifer | Don’t Look Back |
| Bedford, Martyn | Never Ending |
| Blankman, Anne | Prisoner of Night and Fog |
| Brown, Jennifer | Torn Away |
| Brown, Skila | Caminar |
| Burgess, Melvin | The Hit |
| Carleson, J.C. | The Tyrant’s Daughter |
| Colbert, Brandy | Pointe |
| Combs, Sarah | Breakfast Served Anytime |
| Dellaira, Ava | Love Letters to the Dead |
| Giles, Lamar | Fake ID |
| Graudin, Ryan | The Walled City |
| Green, Sally | Half Bad |
| Griffin, Adele | The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone |
| Han, Jenny | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before |
| Hattemer, Kate | The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy |
| Herbach, Geoff | Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders |
| Howe, Katherine | Conversion |
| Hubbard, Jenny | And We Stay |
| Johnston, E.K. | The Story of Owen: Dragonslayer of Troneheim |
| Kephart, Beth | Going Over |
| Kiely, Brendan | The Gospel of Winter |
| Kuehn, Stephanie | Complicit |
| Kulper, Kendall | Salt & Storm |
| LaCour, Nina | Everything Leads to You |
| LaFevers, Robin | Mortal Heart |
| Lloyd-Jones, Emily | Illusive |
| Lockhart, e. | We Were Liars |
| Lu, Marie | The Young Elites |
| Maciel, Amanda | Tease |
| Maguire, Gregory | Egg & Spoon |
| Nelson, Jandy | I’ll Give You the Sun |
| Neri, G | Knockout Games |
| Oliver, Lauren | Panic |
| Paige, Danielle | Dorothy Must Die |
| Philbrick, Rodman | Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina |
| Pratt, Non | Trouble |
| Quintero, Isabel | Gabi, a Girl in Pieces |
| Reinhardt, Dana | We Are the Goldens |
| Reynolds, Jason | When I Was the Greatest |
| Rutkoski, Marie | The Winner’s Curse |
| Sedgwick, Marcus | She Is Not Invisible |
| Sharpe, Tess | Far From You |
| Shepherd, Megan | Her Dark Curiosity |
| Shinoda, Anna | Learning Not to Drown |
| Smith, Andrew | Grasshopper Jungle |
| Smith, Lindsay | Sekret |
| Strasser, Todd | No Place |
| Taylor, Laini | Dreams of Gods and Monsters |
| Templeman, McCormick | The Glass Casket |
| Tripp, Ben | The Accidental Highwayman |
| Venkatraman, Padma | A Time to Dance |
| Vlahos, Len | The Scar Boys |
| Waller, Sharon Biggs | A Mad, Wicked Folly |
| Walton, Leslye | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender |
| Westerfeld, Scott | Afterworlds |
| Whaley, John Corey | Noggin |
| White, Kiersten & Jim Di Bartolo | In the Shadows |
| Wiles, Deborah | Revolution |
| Wolitzer, Meg | Belzhar |
| Wood, Fiona | Wildlife |
| Winters, Cat | The Cure for Dreaming |
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