Young Adult fiction (and, more rarely, nonfiction) is a publishing term for books aimed at readers approximately 15 to 25 years old (though some authorities put the upper range at closer to 34). It uses a slightly simpler vocabulary and does not assume certain experiences on the part of the reader. Currently, Young Adult is mostly a marketing concept and thus YA novels are well represented in both literary and genre fiction. Generally, YA fiction features a child or teenage protagonist (although not always), usually in a Coming-of-Age Story. A common staple of YA fiction is the "problem novel", in which some sort of societal issue (such as sexuality, mental illness, poverty, racism, etc.) is discussed. Since all of this is also likely to appeal to adults, it is often separately marketed to both demographics. Young Adult fiction can feature content deemed unsuitable for children, but also will often have didactic and moralistic content.
The rough television equivalent is the Teen Drama (or Kid Com, though depending on the network usually aimed at a younger age group). The rough manga and anime equivalents are Shonen and Shoujo. The term "Young Adult" however has begun to be used widely as an umbrella term.
Due to a general misunderstanding of the term, and the fact that many of its target demographic are actually over the age of 18, nearly every venue in which Young Adult (or its synonym) storytelling occurs is subject to some degree of What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?, especially in works that are sexually explicit, very violent, or contain so-called "mature" subject matter that parents may feel is inappropriate for kids or teenagers. This is one reason why YA novels regularly face censorship and banning challenges.
Also see Middle Grade Literature and Children's Literature, for the next age groups down.
While Light Novels are directed at young adult audiences too, they are on their own index for convenience.
For the 2011 movie, see Young Adult.
List of young adult novels and series:
- The A List
- A Northern Light
- The Abandon Trilogy
- Abarat
- The Ables
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- An Abundance of Katherines
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- Adrian Mole
- Adventure Series
- After
- After Amy Efaw
- After the First Death
- After Worlds
- Ahriman Trilogy
- Aimee
- Air Awakens
- Airhead Series
- Airborn
- Akata Witch
- Alcatraz Series
- Alex Rider
- Alice Series
- Alice, Girl from the Future
- All American Boys
- All-American Girl
- All Of This Is True
- All Our Yesterdays
- All The Bright Places
- All The Crooked Saints
- All The Rage
- All We Have Left
- Almost Perfect
- Along for the Ride
- Alpha Force
- Alterworld
- Amaranthine Saga
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- Among The Beasts And Briars
- The Anderssons
- Angel Mage
- Anger Is a Gift
- Angry Remembrance
- Anna and the French Kiss
- Anna Dressed in Blood
- Annals of the Western Shore
- Anne Frank And Me
- Annie on My Mind
- Arcadia
- Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium
- The Archived
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Armageddon Summer
- The Art of Being Normal
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- The Art of Starving
- Ascendance Trilogy
- Ashes and Dust
- Ashfall
- As Simple as Snow
- The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
- Atlantis Grail
- Audrey, Wait!
- Aurora Cycle
- Avalon High
- The Avatar Chronicles
- The Avatars Trilogy
- Azure Rain
- Backlash
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Batman: Nightwalker
- Beachwalker
- Beacon Street Girls
- Beastly
- Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales
- Beasts Made Of Night
- Beauty
- Before I Fall
- Behind the Attic Wall
- Being Bindy
- The Bell at Sealey Head
- The Belles
- Best F(r)iends
- Beta
- Between Planets
- Beyond the Western Sea
- The Beyonders
- Birthright
- The Black God's Drums
- The Black Magician Trilogy
- Black Maria
- The Black Tattoo
- Black Widow
- The Black Witch Chronicles
- Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains)
- Blood and Chocolate
- Blood Feud
- Bloodlines
- Blood Ninja
- Blood of Earth
- The Blood Of Stars
- Blood Red Road
- Bloody Jack
- Blue Avenger
- The Blue Castle
- The Blue Girl
- Blue Iguana
- The Blue Lagoon
- Blue Rabbit
- The Body Of Christopher Creed
- Bones of Faerie
- The Bone Witch
- The Book of Dust
- The Book of the Named
- Book of the Stars
- The Books of Ember
- The Book Thief
- Bordertown
- The Borrible Trilogy
- Boy Meets Boy
- Bran Hambric
- Bras and Broomsticks
- Brave Exiles
- Break
- Break of Dark
- Breathing Underwater
- Brian's Saga
- Briar Rose
- Broken Sky
- Bruiser
- Bubble World
- The Bunker Diary
- Bumped
- BZRK
- Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
- The Candy Shop War
- The Camp Half-Blood Series
- Cannon Fodder
- Caraval
- The Carrie Diaries
- Carry On
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Catfishing on CatNet
- Catherine, Called Birdy
- Catwoman: Soulstealer
- Caucasia
- Cemetery Boys
- Chain Letter
- Challenger Deep
- The Changeover
- Chanters of Tremaris
- Chaos Squad
- Chaos Walking
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
- Charlotte Powers
- Chasing Shadows
- Chasing Yesterday
- The Chemical Garden Trilogy
- CHERUB Series
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Chime
- The Chocolate War
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- The Chosen
- Chronicles of Nick
- The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica
- The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
- The Circle (2011)
- Circle of Three
- Circleverse
- Citizen of the Galaxy
- The Claidi Journals
- Classic Singapore Horror Stories
- The Clique
- Clown in a Cornfield
- Coda
- Code Name Verity
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- The Cold Moons
- Colin Fischer
- The Colonial Boy
- The ColSec Trilogy
- Companions of the Night
- Concrete Rose
- Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- A Confusion of Princes
- The Cornersville Trace Mythos
- The Cost Of All Things
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- The Cousins
- Crabbe
- Crash Landed
- Crier's War
- Croak
- Cronus Chronicles
- Crosstime Traffic
- Cruel Beauty
- Cryptid Hunters
- Curdy
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- The Cursebreaker Series
- The Curse Workers
- Cut
- The Dalemark Quartet
- Dancing on the Edge
- Dangerous Boy
- Daniel Fox And The Jesters Legacy
- Daniel X
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
- The Darkest Corners
- The Darkest Minds
- The Darkest Part of the Forest
- Darkest Powers
- Dark Inside
- Dark Life
- Dark Lord of Derkholm
- Dark Reflections Trilogy
- Dark Shimmer
- The Dark Side of Nowhere
- Dark Shores
- Dark Touch
- Dark Visions
- DARLAH
- Darling
- Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage
- Date Me, Bryson Keller
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Daughters of the Moon
- The Day Of The Pelican
- The Day The Senior Class Got Married
- Deadgirl
- Deadline
- A Deadly Game of Magic
- Deadly Pink
- Death of a Pop-Idol
- Deathscent
- Deeplight
- Delirium Series
- Demon Envy
- The Demon's Lexicon
- Den of Shadows
- Department 19
- Deptford Mice
- Destined to Lead
- Devilish
- The Devil's Arithmetic
- The Diminished
- Dinoverse
- Distortionverse
- The Disenchantments
- Divergent
- The Diviners
- Djinn Awakes
- Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Doglands
- The Dolphin Ring
- Don't Call Me Ishmael!
- Don't Look Back
- The Doomspell Trilogy
- Dorothy Must Die
- Double Elimination
- Double Identity
- Down a Dark Hall
- Dragon Keeper Trilogy
- Dragonlance: The New Adventures
- Dragon Queen
- Dragons in Our Midst
- Dreamland
- Dreamwood
- Dr. Franklin's Island
- Dry
- Dunk
- The Duplicate
- Dust City
- Dust Lands
- The Dust of 100 Dogs
- Earth Girl
- The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
- The Easy Part of Impossible
- Echo After Echo
- Echo Falls Mysteries
- The Echorium Sequence
- The Edge Chronicles
- Elatsoe
- Eleanor & Park
- The Elemental Trilogy
- Eliza And Her Monsters
- Elliott & Win
- Elsewhere
- An Ember in the Ashes
- Emily of New Moon
- The Empirium Trilogy
- The Empress Sword
- Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Endgame
- Endgame Trilogy
- Ensel Und Krete
- The Enemy
- Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
- Erebos
- Escape from the Island of Aquarius
- Ethan, Suspended
- Eve and Adam
- Eve Of Man
- Eve: The Awakening
- Everland
- Evernight
- Everworld
- Every Day
- Everything, Everything
- Evil Genius Trilogy
- Evolution Me And Other Freaks Of Nature
- The Evolution Of Claire
- The Evolution of Emily
- Expiration Day
- The Extraordinaires
- The Eyes of Kid Midas
- Fade
- The Fae of Calaveras County
- The Faerie Path
- Fairy Tale Novels
- The Fallen
- False Memory Trilogy
- Fancy Apartments
- Fangirl
- Farmer in the Sky
- Farsala Trilogy
- The Farwalker Trilogy
- Fat Kid Rules the World
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Fault Line
- Fearless
- Feed (2002)
- Feeling for Bones
- Feeling Sorry for Celia
- Feliks, Net & Nika
- The Fell of Dark
- Ferals
- Feverwake
- A Fierce And Subtle Poison
- The Fifth Wave
- Fighting Fantasy
- Finding Hope Colleen Nelson
- Fingerprints
- The Finishing School Series
- Finnegan Zwake
- Fire Bringer
- The Firebringer Trilogy
- Fire Girl
- The Fire-Us Trilogy
- A Fistful of Sky
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights
- Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes
- Flawed
- Flipped
- Flora Segunda
- The Folk Keeper
- The Folk of the Air
- Forbidden
- The Forbidden Game
- Forest Of A Thousand Lanterns
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- Foretold
- The Forsaken Children
- Freakling
- Freak the Mighty
- Free To Fall
- Freya
- A Friend At Midnight
- The Friendship Song
- Frontier Magic
- Frontier Wolf
- Full Tilt
- Futuretrack Five
- Galax-Arena
- The Gallagher Girls
- The Game Of Love And Death
- Game Slaves
- Gamer Girl
- The Gathering
- Gathering Blue
- Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
- Gemma Doyle
- Gena/Finn
- Generation Dead
- Gentlehands
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
- Geography Club
- ghostgirl
- Ghost Squad
- The Gideon Trilogy
- A Gift of Magic
- Gilded Wings
- Girl, Fifteen, Charming but Insane
- The Girl from the Well
- The Girl in the Steel Corset
- The Girls Series
- The Girl Who Chased The Moon
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- The Girl With The Silver Eyes
- Girls With Sharp Sticks
- Give a Boy a Gun
- Given
- The Giver
- Gives Light
- The Glimpse
- Glitter
- Go Ask Alice
- The Goblin Wood
- The Goddess Test
- Godless
- Gods and Monsters
- Gods Play
- Gone
- Goodbye Days
- The Goodness Gene
- Goodnight Mister Tom
- The Gospel According to Larry
- Gossip Girl
- Gossip Times Three
- Graceling Realm
- The Grace Year
- Grandmaster
- Grasshopper Jungle
- Green Angel
- The Green Futures of Tycho
- Greenglass House
- Green-Sky Trilogy
- Grimpow: The Invisible Road
- The Grishaverse
- Groosham Grange
- Guardians of the Dead
- The Guardians of Time Trilogy
- The Guild of Specialists
- Guitar Girl
- Gwendalavir Universe
- Half Bad
- Half World
- Halo: Battle Born
- Hamish X
- Handbook for Mortals
- Hands Held in the Snow
- Hangin' Out with Cici
- Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
- Harmonic Feedback
- Harry Potter straddles the line between Young Adult and Middle Grade, especially as the series went on.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US)
- 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
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- The Hate U Give
- A Hat Full of Sky
- Hating Alison Ashley
- Have Space Suit Will Travel
- Hawksmaid
- The Hazel Wood
- The Hearts We Sold
- Heartless (2016)
- Heir Apparent
- Heist Society
- Henderson's Boys
- Heroics
- The Hero of Numbani
- Hex Hall
- Hexwood
- His Dark Materials
- His Fair Assassin
- History Is All You Left Me
- The Hobbit
- Hollowstone
- Hope Was Here
- The House of Night
- House of Stairs
- House of the Scorpion
- The House on Mango Street
- How I Live Now
- Howl's Moving Castle
- How to Lead a Life of Crime
- How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
- How to Save a Life
- How To Win At High School
- Hottie
- The Hunchback Assignments
- The Hunger Games
- Hungry
- Hush, Hush
- I Am J
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
- I Am Not Esther
- I Am Number Four
- I Am the Cheese
- I Am the Messenger
- Identical
- The Idhún's Memories
- If I Stay
- If I Should Die Before I Wake
- If We Survive
- I Hunt Killers
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- The Illustrated Mum
- Imaginalis
- The Immortal Rules
- The Immortals Series
- Impossible
- Impostors
- Impulse
- Incarceron
- The Incarnate Trilogy
- Inheritance Cycle
- The Inheritance Games
- Ink Trilogy
- Inside Out
- Insignia
- Interstellar Pig
- InterWorld
- Into the Bloodred Woods
- Into The Grey
- Into the Heartless Wood
- The Invisible Library
- The Iron King
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- I Stop Somewhere
- Iron Widow
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- I Was a Teenage Fairy
- Jack Bishop
- Jackie and Craig
- Jacob Have I Loved
- Jane of Lantern Hill
- Janie
- Jedi Apprentice
- Jedi Quest
- Jelly Belly
- Jennifer Scales
- The Jericho Trilogy
- Jessica Darling
- Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
- Jinx
- The Journey to Atlantis
- Julie of the Wolves
- Just as Long as We're Together
- Just Juliet
- Just Listen
- Just One Day
- Kadingir
- Katy
- Keeping the Moon
- Keeping You a Secret
- Keturah and Lord Death
- Kiesha'ra
- Kiki Strike
- Kill The Boy Band
- Kilmeny of the Orchard
- Kim
- Kingdom Of Souls
- The Kingdom of Little Wounds
- Kingdom on Fire
- King Dork
- Kire
- Kiss
- The Kids of Pine Hill
- The Kissing Booth
- Knight and Rogue Series
- Knight's Fee
- Kôt
- Krabat
- Labyrinth Lost
- The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
- The Language Of Stars
- The Last Book in the Universe
- The Last Burning of New London
- The Last Dragonslayer Series
- Last Legionary
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- The Last Vampire
- Laughing Winds
- Lawless
- L: change the WorLd
- The League Of Princes
- Leaving Poppy
- Left Behind: The Kids
- Leehampton Series
- Legend Trilogy
- Legends of Panthera
- The Legion
- Leia, Princess of Alderaan
- Let It Snow
- Lets Get Lost
- Lets Talk About Love
- Leven Thumps
- Leviathan
- Liar
- The Lie Tree
- Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
- Life By Committee
- Life In The Fat Lane
- Lionboy
- The Lion Hunters (or Arthurian-Aksumite Cycle)
- Little Thieves
- Living Dead Girl
- Lock and Key
- Lock And Mori
- Lockwood & Co.
- Loki: Where Mischief Lies
- Lonely Werewolf Girl
- A Long, Long Sleep
- Looking for Alaska
- Looking for Alibrandi
- The Looking-Glass Wars
- Look for Me by Moonlight
- The Lord of Opium
- Lorien Legacies
- Losing Christina
- Lost Girls
- Lost Voices Trilogy
- The Lost Years of Merlin
- The Love And Lies Of Rukhsana Ali
- Loveless
- Love Lessons
- Love Letters to the Dead
- Lovely Dark And Deep
- Lucky Starr
- The Lumatere Chronicles
- Luna
- Lunar Chronicles
- The Luxe
- The Lynburn Legacy
- A Macabre Myth of a Moth-Man
- The Machine Gunners
- Main Street Series
- Malediction Trilogy
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile
- The Mark of the Horse Lord
- Market of Monsters
- Markswoman
- The Marvellous Land of Snergs
- Mary Jane: A Novel
- Masks of Aygrima
- Matched
- A Match Made in High School
- Mates, Dates series
- A Matter of Profit
- Maximum Ride
- The Maze Runner
- The Mediator
- Mediochre Q Seth Series
- The Melissa Allen Trilogy
- Memories of Summer
- Memory Girl
- The Merlin Conspiracy
- Messenger
- Messenger of Fear
- Metaltown
- Michael Vey
- Micro Adventure
- Midnight
- Midnighters
- The Midnight Library
- The Migax Cycle
- Mindblind
- Mindwarp
- Miriam's Well
- Mirror Mirror
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Miss Prince
- Mistwalker
- Mistwood
- Mithermage Series
- Miya Black, Pirate Princess
- Modelland
- Modern Faerie Tales
- Monster
- Monster Blood Tattoo
- Monstrumologist
- Montmaray Trilogy
- Monument 14 Trilogy
- The Moon and More
- Moon Crash Series
- Moonkid and Liberty
- The Moon of Gomrath
- More Than This
- The Mortality Doctrine
- Morganville Vampires
- The Mostly True Story of Jack
- Mouse
- Mouseheart
- Moving Target
- The Mural
- Murderess
- The Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie
- Murkmere
- My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
- My Life Undecided
- My Side of the Mountain
- My Sister Rosa
- My Sister The Vampire
- Mystery of the Witches' Bridge
- My Swordhand Is Singing
- Mythos Academy
- My Wife Is a Witch
- Nation
- National Velvet
- The Naturals
- Need
- The Neptune Project
- Nerve
- Never Ever
- Never Look Back
- Nevermore
- Never Never
- Neverworld Wake
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Nightfall
- The Nightfall Chronicles
- The Night Room
- Nightshade Trilogy
- Night World
- The Nine Lives of Chloe King
- Nintendo Adventure Books
- No More Dead Dogs
- Noonday Jackals
- No Safety in Numbers
- Nowhere Boy
- The Nowhere Girls
- Numbers
- Number the Stars
- The Obernewtyn Chronicles
- Old Kingdom
- Oliver Twisted
- Only Ever Yours
- Once And For All
- Once Upon A Con
- Once Upon a Marigold
- One Fat Summer
- One Of Us Is Lying
- The Ones
- On The Come Up
- On the Jellicoe Road
- On the Run
- The Oracle Trilogy
- Orange Clouds, Blue Sky
- Orca Soundings
- The Order Of Odd Fish
- Orpheus Girl
- Otherbound
- Outcast
- Outlander Leander
- Out of the Easy
- The Outsiders
- The Pagan Chronicles
- Paper Gods
- Paper Towns
- Paranormalcy
- Parrotfish
- Partials
- The Pendragon Adventure
- Penryn and the End of Days
- The Perilous Gard
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Pet
- Peta Lyre's Rating Normal
- Peter Pays Tribute
- Phenomena
- The Pigman
- Pillage
- Pit Dragon Chronicles
- The Place Inside the Storm
- Plain Kate
- Planet Tad (also appears as a continuing series in MAD)
- Playing Beatie Bow
- Playing With Matches
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis
- Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her
- I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! (Prequel from Goodnight's POV)
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain (follow up, new hero named Magenta)
- Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead (follow up, new protagonist named Avery Special)
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- The Pluto Project
- Poe Dameron: Free Fall
- Point Horror
- The Poison Apples
- Post-High School Reality Quest
- Power
- Power of Three
- Pretty Little Liars
- Pretty Little Mistakes
- Princess Academy
- Princess Ben
- The Princess Diaries
- A Princess Of Roumania
- Private
- The Program
- Project NRI
- The Promise
- The Prophecy of the Stones
- Puberty Blues
- Purple Hibiscus
- The Pushcart War
- Rabble Starkey
- Rachel Griffin
- Radio Silence
- Rage: A Love Story
- The Ragwitch
- Railhead
- Railsea
- Rainbow
- Rain Of The Ghost
- Ranger's Apprentice
- The Raven Cycle
- Raven Quest
- Raybearer
- Razorland Trilogy
- Realm Breaker
- Reaper (2016)
- Rebel of the Sands
- Rebel Rising
- Reckless
- Red Handed
- Red Moon Rising
- Red Queen
- Red Rising
- Redwall
- Reformed Vampire Support Group
- Remnants
- Renegades
- The Replacement
- Replica
- Replica Series
- Resonance, Book One: Birds of Passage
- The Rest Of The Story
- The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
- Rewind
- The Riddle Master Trilogy
- The Rig
- Rogue
- The Rolling Stones
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Rosebush
- Rose Under Fire
- Roswell High (later turned into a television series)
- Rotters
- Rot & Ruin
- Ruby Oliver Quartet
- The Ruby Red Trilogy
- Run
- Running Out of Time
- Running With Lions
- Saint Anything
- Sally Lockhart
- Samhain Island
- Sammy Keyes
- Samurai Shortstop
- Saras Face
- The Savage
- Save the Enemy
- Save the Pearls
- Saving Francesca
- Saving Zoë
- The Savior's Champion
- Scavenger Alliance
- Schooled
- The Sea of Trolls
- Searching For Sky
- The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
- Secrets Not Meant to be Kept
- The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
- See You At Harry's
- The Seer and the Sword
- The Selection
- A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
- Septimus Heap
- Seraphina
- The Serpent & Dove Trilogy
- Servants of the Empire
- The Seven Citadels
- The Seven Realms Series
- The Seventh Bride
- The Seventh Tower
- Shade's Children
- Shadow Children
- Shadow Grail
- The Shadowhunter Chronicles
- Shadowmancer
- Shadow of the Fox
- Shadows on the Moon
- The Shadow Speaker
- Shatter Me
- The Sherwood Ring
- The Shield, Sword, and Crown
- The Shining Company
- Sick Kids In Love
- Side Effects May Vary
- The Sight
- The Silence of Bones
- The Silence of Murder
- The Silver Codex
- The Silver Kiss
- Silver Phoenix
- The Silver Trilogy
- Simon
- Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
- Singularity
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Sisters... No Way!
- Skellig
- The Skinjacker Trilogy
- Skinned
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- The Sky Is Everywhere
- Slated
- Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
- Small Steps
- Smuggler's Run
- Snarkout Boys
- Social Queue
- The Solomon Code
- So Yesterday
- Someone Else's War
- Some Girls Are
- Someone Like You
- Something Dark and Holy
- Something Like Series
- Son
- The Songbird's Refrain
- Song for a Dark Queen
- A Song For Ella Grey
- Sorcery & Cecelia
- Sorrow's Knot
- Soul Seekers
- Soul Screamers
- Sounder
- Southern Fried Wiccan
- Space Cadet
- Speak
- Special Operations
- Spellslinger Series
- Splintered Series
- Splitterwelten
- Spy High
- The Squad
- The Squire's Tales
- Ssalia and the Dragons of Avienot
- The Stanley Family
- The Star Beast
- Star City
- Starcrossed Series
- Stargirl
- The Star Kingdom
- Starman Jones
- Star Shards Chronicles
- Star Wars: Ahsoka
- Star Wars: Lost Stars
- Star Wars: Queen's Peril
- Star Wars: Queen's Shadow
- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
- Steeplejack
- Stories of Nypre
- Strange Angels
- Stranger And Stranger
- Stranger Than Fanfiction
- Strange the Dreamer
- Stravaganza
- Strength & Justice
- Stuck
- A Sudden Wild Magic
- The Summer I Turned Pretty
- The Summer King Chronicles
- Summerland
- The Summoner Trilogy
- The Supernaturalist
- Surrender Your Sons
- Sweep
- Sweet Valley High
- Tadgifauna
- A Tale of...
- A Tale of Time City
- Tales from Dimwood Forest
- Tales of Kolmar
- Tamar
- Tangerine
- The Tapestry
- Tara Duncan
- Team Human
- Tease
- Teenage Worrier
- Teen Idol
- Teen Inc
- Teen Power Inc.
- Teen Witch
- Teeth
- Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home
- Ten
- Tenderness
- The Testing Trilogy
- That Inevitable Victorian Thing
- That Summer
- That Was Then... This Is Now
- Théâtre Illuminata Trilogy
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't
- Then I Met My Sister
- There's Magic Between Us
- There's Someone Inside Your House
- Thieves Like Us
- Things I Should Have Known
- Thirsty
- Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes
- This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
- This Lullaby
- Those That Wake
- Three Dark Crowns
- ThreeFold Seer
- Throne of Glass
- Tiger Eyes
- Tiger Lily
- The Tillerman Family Series
- The Time of the Ghost
- Time Quintet
- Time Reaper
- TimeRiders
- TMI Patty Blount
- TMI Sarah Quigley
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before
- The Tomorrow Series
- To Kill a Kingdom
- Tonight The Streets Are Ours
- Tortall Universe
- Touching Spirit Bear
- Traces
- Tracked
- The Transall Saga
- The Treachery of Beautiful Things
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Trilogy of Aeir
- The Tripods
- Tripswitch
- Trollhunters
- Truancy
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- The Truth About Forever
- The TTYL Series
- Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise
- Trylle Trilogy
- Tunes For Bears To Dance To
- Tunnel in the Sky
- Tunnels
- Turtles All the Way Down
- The Twelve-Fingered Boy
- Twilight
- The Twilight Realm
- A Twisted Tale
- T*Witches
- Two Can Keep A Secret
- Warcross
- The Wardstone Chronicles
- The Wake Trilogy
- Walk Two Moons
- Warlocks of the Sigil
- Warrior Scarlet
- The Waterfire Saga
- Watersong
- Water Trilogy
- The Wave
- Wax
- We All Fall Down
- We Were Liars
- The Weapon of a Jedi
- We Hunt The Flame
- The Wee Free Men
- The Weight Of Blood
- The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Wendy Darling Series
- Whale Talk
- What a Week
- What Happened to Goodbye
- What If... (Gamebooks)
- What She Left Behind
- What to Say Next
- What We Saw at Night
- When Dad Killed Mom
- When Heaven Spits You Out
- When My Heart Joins the Thousand
- When We Were Animals
- Whispers From The Dead
- The White Darkness
- The White Rabbit Chronicles
- White Space
- Why We Broke Up
- Why We Took the Car
- Wicked
- Wicked Lovely
- Widdershins Adventures
- Wilder Girls
- Wildthorn
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- The Wind Eye
- The Windwater Pack
- The Wingfeather Saga
- Wings Quartet
- Winnie the Horse Gentler
- The Winternight Trilogy
- Wintersmith
- The Wish
- Wishful Thinking
- W.I.T.C.H.
- Witch & Wizard
- Witch Boy
- The Witches of Bailiwick
- The Witches of Worm
- The Witchlands
- Without Tess
- Wolves of Mercy Falls Series
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer
- The Worldwalker Trilogy
Parodies:
- The term is parodied by The Simpsons in the episode with the... cumbersome name of Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples, and Teens and Gays, when "anti-family" legislation lets the public library set up a red-light shelf labeled "Adult".
- The genre is parodied in the 2011 film Young Adult, in which the protagonist is an author of several books in a fading series of high-school novels.