Science Fiction - Teen Staff Picks

Another list from the Seattle Public Library, these science fiction books are great Young Adult reading. Links back to WorldsWithoutEnd where possible, etc.

• Crewel by Gennifer Albin
• The Future of Us by Jay Asher
• The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
• The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
• Beta by Rachel Cohn
• Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
• The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
• How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend by Gary Ghislain
• Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman
• BZRK by Michael Grant
• 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
• Adaptation by Malinda Lo
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Planesrunner by Ian McDonald
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix
• Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
• The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman
• Apollo's Outcasts by Allen M. Steele

Mythopoeic Children's Fantasy

 The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from “Young Adults” to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Entries (from the Children's list only) below, with the winner first in the list (and marked with an asterisk). Links take you to the book on WorldsWithoutEnd.

2013

• Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel (Margaret K. McElderry)*
• Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado, Giants Beware! (First Second)
• Merrie Haskell, The Princess Curse (HarperCollins)
• Christopher Healy, The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (Walden Pond Press)
• Sherwood Smith, The Spy Princess (Viking Juvenile)

2012

• Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze (Big Mouth House) *
• Lisa Mantchev, Théâtre Illuminata series, consisting of Eyes Like Stars, Perchance to Dream, and So Silver Bright (Feiwel and Friends)
• Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper series, consisting of Terrier, Bloodhound, and Mastiff (Random House)
• Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races (Scholastic)
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Feiwel and Friends)

2011

• Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow Books) *
• Catherine Fisher, Incarceron and Sapphique (Dial)
• Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (HarperCollins)
• Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy (Putnam Juvenile)
• Heather Tomlinson, Toads and Diamonds (Henry Holt)

2010

• Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown) *
• Kage Baker, The Hotel Under the Sand (Tachyon)
• Shannon Hale, Books of Bayern consisting of The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, andForest Born (Bloomsbury)
• Malinda Lo, Ash (Little, Brown)
• Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars (Feiwel & Friends)

2009

• Kristin Cashore, Graceling * (Harcourt Children’s Books)
• Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins)
• Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways (HarperCollins)
• Ingrid Law, Savvy (Dial)
• Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)

2008

• J.K. Rowling, The Harry Potter series * (consisting of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [Sorcerer’s] Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) (Bloomsbury)
• Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (Simon & Schuster); Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (Simon & Schuster); Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale (Margaret K. McElderry)
• Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (HarperCollins)
• Nancy Springer, Dusssie (Walker Books for Young Readers)
• Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (HarperTeen)

2007

• Catherine Fisher, Corbenic (Greenwillow) *
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Viking)
• Diana Wynne Jones, The Pinhoe Egg (Greenwillow)
• Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street)
• Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (HarperTeen)

2006

• The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud * (consisting of The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, and Ptolemy’s Gate)
• Valiant by Holly Black
• Wizards at War by Diane Duane
• By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

2005

• A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett *
• Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (consisting of The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places, and King of the Middle March)
• Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
• Trilogy consisting of Wise Child, Juniper, and Colman by Monica Furlong
• The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix (consisting of Sabriel, Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr, and Abhorsen)

2004

• The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle *
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

2003

• Summerland by Michael Chabon *
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

2002

• The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson *
• The Wizard’s Dilemma by Diane Duane
• Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
• The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

2001

• Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun *
• Night Flying by Rita Murphy
• Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
• Growing Wings by Laurel Winter
• Boots and the Seven Leaguers by Jane Yolen

2000

• The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley *
• Skellig by David Almond
• The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• Kingdom series by Cynthia Voigt

1999

• Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones *
• Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• The Squire’s Tale by Gerald Morris
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

1998

• Young Merlin trilogy by Jane Yolen (consisting of Passager, Hobby and Merlin) *
• The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper
• A Dark Horn Blowing by Dahlov Ipcar
• Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

1996

• The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones *
• The Boggart by Susan Cooper
• Falcon’s Egg by Luli Gray
• Wren’s War by Sherwood Smith
• The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh

1995

• Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl *
• The Princess and the Lord of Night by Emma Bull
• Switching Well by Peni R. Griffin
• A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
• Good Griselle by Jane Yolen

1994

• The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas *
• The Mystery of the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Nevernever by Will Shetterly
• Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

1993

• Knight’s Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald *
• The Ancient One by T.A. Barron
• Jennifer Murdley’s Toad by Bruce Coville
• Hobkin by Peni R. Griffin
• Fish Soup by Ursula K. Le Guin

1992

• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie *
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
• Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
• Elsewhere by Will Shetterly
• Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

(edit)
Incidentally, I just found that the Mythopoeic Awards is a category on Worlds Without End. It doesn't seem to differentiate between adult and young adult, but I will link to their page regardless.  Cheers!

Where To Start With Young Adult Science Fiction

IO9 posts many, many lists of Science Fiction books and films. Here is a brief list from their article indicating where to start with Young Adult Science Fiction from 2009, with links to Worlds Without End titles of course.

• From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne
• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

• Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Tripods Trilogy (books 1, 2, 3) by John Christopher
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
• Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars by Daniel M. Pinkwater
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen
• Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Letham
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Michael L. Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". While many of these do not match the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror focus of Worlds Without End, a few do - they are highlighted below.


2013

Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake

Honor Books: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein;  Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

2012

Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Books: Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman; The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

2011

Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honor Books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher, Please Ignore Vera Dietz  by A.S. King, Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick,Nothing written by Janne Teller

2010

Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Honor Books: Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman, The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey, Punkzilla by Adam Rapp, Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

2009

Winner:Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Nation by Terry Pratchett, Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

2008

Winner: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Honor Books:  Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox, One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke, Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007

Winner: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson, An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green, Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006

Winner: Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Honor Books: Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan, I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak, John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography,  by Elizabeth Partridge, A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005

Winner: How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff

Honor Books: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004

Winner: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Honor Books:A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003

Winner: Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

Honor Books: The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr, Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002

Winner:A Step From Heaven, by An Na

Honor Books: The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams, Freewill, by Chris Lynch, True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001

Winner: Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

Honor Books: Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman, The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci, Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison, Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000

Winner: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

Honor Books: Skellig, by David Almond, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

Horror and Thriller for Teens

The Seattle Public Library System has a list of Horror and Thriller titles for Teens, reproduced here. I have linked the books which are on the Worlds Without End site currently, and will update if any are added in 2014.

• Flip by Martyn Bedford
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
• Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman
• The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
• Hourglass by Claudia Gray
• Rotters by Daniel Kraus
• Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
• The Light by D.J. MacHale
• Marvel Zombies Supreme by Frank Marraffino
• The Knife the Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
• Possess by Gretchen McNeil
• Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• iZombie [1], Dead to the World by Chris Roberson
• Highschool of the Dead. 1 by Daisuke Sato
• Au revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
• White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
• Cirque du Freak, Volume 1 by Darren Shan
• Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
• All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
• Curse of the Wendigo by Richard Yancey

Horror for Teens

The King County Library System has a list of Horror titles for Teens, reproduced here. I have linked the books which are on the Worlds Without End site currently, and will update if any are added in 2014.

• Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
• In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
• Prom Nights from Hell by Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison and Stephanie Meyer
• Bloodline by Kate Cary
• Marked: The House of Night Book One by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
• The House Next Door by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz
• Black Tattoo by Sam Enthovan
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Love Curse of the Rumboughs by Jack Gantos
• Raven's Gate: Book One of the Gatekeepers by Anthony Horowitz
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus
• Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
• Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
• My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
• Lord Loss by Darren Shan
• Dread Locks by Neal Shusterman
• Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith
• Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
• A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
• The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

Welcome to the YA Challenge!

The Worlds Without End website is hosting a Roll-Your-Own reading challenge for 2014. This means you choose the reading challenge that is best for you, and then go to it!

My mission is to help out, hosting the Young Adult reading challenge. For this challenge, choose which of these two levels is best for you:

• Full Year - Read 12 Young Adult books by 12 authors you haven't read before and write a review for each.
• Summer - Read 4 Young Adult books by 4 authors you haven't read before and write a review for each. (Summer runs June, July, August and September.)

Book tracking and reviews are all done through the Worlds Without End website, and questions or comments can be posted here or at their forum. Choose any Young Adult book tracked on the website, or drop a message in the forum to have books added. Two lists are available today to choose books from:

• The Locus Young Adult Award lists winners and nominees for this award from 2003 through the present
• David Brin created a list of Science Fiction for Young Adults which contains 89 fantastic books.

Throughout the challenge I will endeavor to find more Young Adult lists and link to them here, highlighting Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books which are currently available on Worlds Without End.

Good luck to all readers of Young Adult fiction!