YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
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Each year the Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) honors the best books for young adults published during the previous year.
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2008
| Author | Title |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| Alexie, Sherman | Flight |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Twisted |
| Asher, Jay | Thirteen Reasons Why |
| Beah, Ishmael | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
| Brande, Robin | Evolution, Mr & Other Freaks of Nature |
| Brooks, Martha | Mistik Lake |
| Burgess, Melvin | Bloodsong |
| Cameron, Peter | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You |
| Carey, Janet Lee | Dragon's Keep |
| Carey, Mike | The Re-Gifters |
| Cassidy, Anne | Looking for JJ |
| Castellucci, Cecil | Beige |
| Clarke, Judith | One Whole and Perfect Day |
| Compestine, Ying Chang | Revolution Is a Dinner Party |
| Crisler, Curtis | Tough Boy Sonatas |
| Cross, Shauna | Derby Girl |
| Cullen, Lynn | I Am Rembrandt's Daughter |
| Dowd, Siobhan | A Swift Pure Cry |
| Downham, Jenny | Before I Die |
| Doyle, Larry | I Love You, Beth Cooper |
| Ellis, Ann Dee | This Is What I Did |
| Felin, M. Sindy | Touching Snow |
| Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell | Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy |
| Friesen, Gayle | For Now |
| Gipi | Notes from a War Story |
| Grey, Christopher | Leonardo's Shadow |
| Hale, Shannon | Book of a Thousand Days |
| Helfer, Andrew | Macolm X: A Graphic Biography |
| Hemphill, Stephanie | Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath |
| Hinds, Gareth | Beowulf |
| Hornby, Nick | Slam |
| Hosseini, Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Jenkins, A.M. | Repossessed |
| Jocelyn, Marthe | How It Happened in Peach Hill |
| Johnston, Tony | Bone by Bone by Bone |
| Jones, Llyod | Mister Pip |
| Key, Watt | Alabama Moon |
| Klass, David | Firestorm |
| Knox, Elizabeth | Dreamquake |
| Koertge, Ron | Strays |
| Lanagan, Margo | Red Spikes |
| Landy, Derek | Skulduggery Pleasant |
| Lat | Town Boy |
| Lockhart, E. | Dramarama |
| Lyga, Barry | The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl |
| Lyga, Barry | Boy Toy |
| MacCready, Robin Merrow | Buried |
| Marillier, Juliet | Wildwood Dancing |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | The White Darkness |
| Marrin, Albert | The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America |
| Meiville, China | Un Lun Dun |
| Miller, Sarah | Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller |
| Moore, Perry | Hero |
| Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | The Off Season |
| Olmstead, Robert | Coal Black Horse |
| Peet, Mal | Tamar |
| Polly, Matthew | American Shaolin |
| Raddatz, Martha | The Long Road Home |
| Reef, Catherine | e.e. cummings: A Poet's Life |
| Resau, Laura | What the Moon Saw |
| The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| Schmidt, Gary D. | The Wednesday Wars |
| Sedgwick, Marcus | My Swordhand Is Singing |
| Selznick, Brian | The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| Sharenow, Robert | My Mother the Cheerleader |
| Shusterman, Neal | Unwind |
| Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
| Smith, Roland | The Peak |
| Sonnenblick, Jordan | Notes form the Midnight Driver |
| St. James, James | Freak Show |
| Tammet, Daniel | Born on a Blue Day |
| Tan, Shaun | The Arrival |
| Thompson, Kate | The New Policeman |
| Wallace, Rich | One Good Punch |
| Weinheimer, Beckie | Converting Kate |
| Wiess, Laura | Such a Pretty Girl |
| Wizner, Jake | Spanking Shakespeare |
| Zarr, Sara | Story of a Girl |
| Zevin, Gabrielle | Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac |