This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here.
A Josephine Angelini Atia Abawi : A Land of Permanent Goodbyes Joan Abelove : Go and Come Back , Saying It Out Loud , Lost and Found Hailey Abbott : The Secrets of Boys , Summer Boys , The Bridesmaid , The Perfect Boy Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé : Ace of Spades Marguerite Abouet : Aya Elizabeth Acevedo : The Poet X , Clap When You Land , With the Fire on High Richard Adams : Watership Down , Shardik , The Plague Dogs Tomi Adeyemi : Children of Blood and Bone Alexandra Adornetto : Halo , Hades , Heaven Renée Ahdieh : The Wrath & the Dawn , Flame in the Mist Melissa Albert : The Hazel Wood Becky Albertalli : Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda , The Upside of Unrequited , Leah on the Offbeat Louisa May Alcott : Little Women , Jo's Boys , Eight Cousins Lloyd Alexander : The Prydain Chronicles , Westmark , The Kestrel , The Beggar Queen Sherman Alexie : The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian S.K. Ali : Saints & Misfits, Love from A to Z Isabel Allende : City of the Beasts , Kingdom of the Golden Dragon , Forest of the Pygmies David Almond : Kit's Wilderness , Heaven Eyes , Clay Elaine M. Alphin : Counterfeit Son Adi Alsaid : Let's Get Lost , Never Always Sometimes Julia Alvarez : How the García Girls Lost Their Accents , Yo! , Before We Were Free Laurie Halse Anderson : Speak , Fever 1793 , Catalyst , Prom , Twisted , Wintergirls M. T. Anderson : Feed , The Pox Party Jesse Andrews : Me and Earl and the Dying Girl V. C. Andrews : Flowers in the Attic Josephine Angelini : Starcrossed trilogyAnthony : A Journey, through Time, with Anthony Kim Antieau : Mercy, Unbound Allen Appel : Twice Upon a Time Jules Archer : The Plot to Seize the White House , The Incredible Sixties , Treason in America Jennifer Armentrout : Covenant series, Lux series, Dark Elements series, Cursed Kelley Armstrong : Darkest Powers Jay Asher : Thirteen Reasons Why , The Future of Us Amelia Atwater-Rhodes : Den of Shadows series, Kiesha'ra seriesVictoria Aveyard : Red Queen Avi: Nothing But the Truth , The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle , Crispin: The Cross of Lead Nafiza Azad : The Candle and the Flame
B David Belbin Natalie Babbitt : Tuck Everlasting Helen Bailey : Electra Brown seriesCatherine Banner : The Last Descendants seriesLeigh Bardugo : Shadow and Bone , Six of Crows Jennifer Lynn Barnes : The Inheritance Games series, Debutantes series, The Fixer series, The Naturals seriesT. A. Barron : The Ancient One John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman : Hollow Earth Karen Bass : Graffiti Knight Cat Bauer : Harley's Ninth , Harley, Like a Person Joan Bauer : Rules of the Road , Squashed , Stand Tall , Hope Was Here Michael Gerard Bauer : The Running Man , Don't Call Me Ishmael L. Frank Baum : Aunt Jane's Nieces seriesPatricia Beatty : Lupita Mañana , Charley Skedaddle , Eight Mules from Monterey , Bonanza Girl , Turn Homeward, Hannalee Margaret Bechard : Hanging onto Max , Star Hatchling , Spacer and Rat , If It Doesn't Kill You David Belbin : Love Lessons , Festival , Denial , The Last Virgin , Dead Guilty Clare Bell : Ratha series Robin Benway : Far from the Tree Steve Berman : Vintage, a Ghost Story Julie Berry : All the Truth That's in Me Chetan Bhagat : Five Point Someone , Revolution 2020 Tanaz Bhathena : A Girl Like That , The Beauty of the Moment Lisa Jenn Bigelow : Hazel's Theory of Evolution Franny Billingsley : The Folk Keeper , Chime Holly Black : The Spiderwick Chronicles , Modern Faerie Tales , The Folk of the Air seriesMalorie Blackman : Noughts and Crosses seriesFrancesca Lia Block : Weetzie Bat , Witch Baby , Baby Be-Bop , Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys Judy Blume : Forever , Tiger Eyes , Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Gwenda Bond : Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds , Girl on a Wire series, Lois Lane series, Match Made in Hell seriesFrank Bonham : Durango Street Angeline Boulley : Firekeeper's Daughter Natasha Bowen : Skin of the Sea Tim Bowler : River Boy , Apocalypse , Starseeker Akemi Dawn Bowman : Starfish Alexandra Bracken : The Darkest Minds Ann Brashares : The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Liz Braswell : The Nine Lives of Chloe King seriesLibba Bray : A Great and Terrible Beauty , Rebel Angels , The Sweet Far Thing , Beauty Queens , The Diviners Heather Brewer : The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod seriesKate Brian : The Virginity Club , Private seriesRae Bridgman : The Serpent's Spell , Amber Ambrosia , Fish & Sphinx Lauren Brooke : Heartland series, Chestnut Hill seriesKevin Brooks : Candy , Martyn Pig , The Road of the Dead Vera Brosgol : Anya's Ghost Roseanne A. Brown : A Song of Wraiths and Ruin N. M. Browne : Warriors of Alavna , Wolf Blood , Shadow Web Alyssa Brugman : Walking Naked Annie Bryant : Beacon Street Girls seriesElizabeth C. Bunce : A Curse Dark as Gold , Thief Errant series StarCrossed , Liar's Moon Eve Bunting : A Sudden Silence Melvin Burgess : Junk , Doing It Frances Hodgson Burnett : The Secret Garden , A Little Princess , Little Lord Fauntleroy Niki Burnham : Royally Jacked , Sticky Fingers Candace Bushnell : The Carrie Diaries Julie Buxbaum : Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next
C Dhonielle Clayton Meg Cabot : The Mediator , 1-800-Where-R-U , The Princess Diaries , All-American Girl , Jinx Rachel Caine : The Morganville Vampires seriesDeb Caletti : The Nature of Jade , The Secret Life of Prince Charming , The Six Rules of Maybe Kacen Callender : Felix Ever After W. Bruce Cameron : A Dog's Purpose Orson Scott Card : Ender's Game Patrick Carman : Atherton: The House of Power , Skeleton Creek , Trackers Isobelle Carmody : Obernewtyn Chronicles , Legendsong Saga Ally Carter : The Gallagher Girls , Heist Society Russell Gordon Carter : Three Points of Honor , The White Plume of Navarre , Patriot Lad series Kristin Cashore : Graceling Kiera Cass : The Selection s eriesCathy Cassidy : Indigo Blue , Scarlett , Gingersnaps Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast : House of Night seriesCecil Castellucci : Boy Proof , The Queen of Cool , Beige , Tin Star Brian Caswell : A Cage of Butterflies , Only the Heart , Double Exposure Betty Cavanna : Going On Sixteen , A Date for Diane , Stamp Twice for Murder Michael Chabon : Summerland Soman Chainani : The School for Good and Evil seriesAidan Chambers : Dance on My Grave , Postcards from No Man's Land Stephen Chbosky : The Perks of Being a Wallflower Traci Chee : Sea of Ink and Gold , We Are Not Free Alice Childress : A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich Cinda Williams Chima : The Heir Chronicles , The Seven Realms Mary H.K. Choi : Emergency Contact , Permanent Record Roshani Chokshi : The Star Touched Queen series, The Gilded Wolves seriesJohn Christopher : Prince in Waiting trilogy , Tripods trilogy Lucy Christopher : Stolen Sandra Cisneros : The House on Mango Street Cassandra Clare : The Mortal Instruments , The Infernal Devices , The Dark Artifices Terri Clark : Breaking Up Is Hard to Do , Sleepless Dhonielle Clayton : The Belles Rosemary Clement-Moore : Texas Gothic , The Splendor Falls , Prom Dates from Hell , Hell Week , Highway to Hell Ernest Cline : Ready Player One Rachel Cohn : Gingerbread , Dash & Lily's Book of Dares Brock Cole : The Goats Chris Colfer : Stranger Than Fanfiction Sneed B. Collard III : Double Eagle , Cartwheel Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier : My Brother Sam Is Dead Suzanne Collins : The Hunger Games Trilogy Ying Chang Compestine : Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party Ally Condie : Matched , Crossed , Reached Ellen Conford : Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate , We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin Pam Conrad : My Daniel Caroline B. Cooney : The Face on the Milk Carton , Both Sides of Time , Twenty Pageants Later , Driver's Ed Susan Cooper : The Dark is Rising series, King of Shadows Robert Cormier : The Chocolate War , After the First Death , The Bumblebee Flies Anyway , Fade , I Am the Cheese , Tenderness , We All Fall Down Bruce Coville : Aliens Ate My Homework , Armageddon Summer , Fortune's Journey John Coy : Crackback , Box Out Sharon Creech : Walk Two Moons , Bloomability , The Wanderer , Chasing Redbird , Absolutely Normal Chaos , Ruby Holler Linda Crew : Children of the River Cath Crowley : Words in Deep Blue Chris Crutcher : Ironman , Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes , Whale Talk , The Sledding Hill Mike Curato : Flamer Jane Louise Curry : The Watchers , A Stolen Life , The Black Canary Christopher Paul Curtis : The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 , Bud, Not Buddy Karen Cushman : Catherine, Called Birdy Leah Cypess : Death Sworn, Mistwood
D Melissa de la Cruz Anita Daher : Spider's Song , Two Foot Punch , Forgetting How to Breathe Roald Dahl : The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More , The Great Automatic Grammatizator Maria Dahvana Headley : Magonia Linden Dalecki : Kid B Maureen Daly : Seventeenth Summer Emily Danforth : The Miseducation of Cameron Post Paula Danziger : The Cat Ate My Gymsuit , The Divorce Express James Dashner : The Maze Runner seriesTerry Davis : Vision Quest , Mysterious Ways , If Rock & Roll Were a Machine Pieretta Dawn : The Mermaid Apprentices , The Nymph Treasury Pamela Dean : Tam Lin , The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills Zoey Dean : The A-List seriesMelissa de la Cruz : Blue Bloods Tracy Deonn : Legendborn Sarah Dessen : Dreamland , Keeping the Moon , The Truth About Forever , Lock and Key Carl Deuker : Heart of a Champion , Runner , Gym Candy Graham Diamond : The Thief of Kalimar , Lady of the Haven Peter Dickinson : The Dancing Bear , Tulku , Eva , AK , The Ropemaker Berlie Doherty : Dear Nobody , The Snake-Stone , Granny Was a Buffer Girl Tom Dolby : The Sixth Form Jennifer Donnelly : A Northern Light , Revolution Siobhan Dowd : A Swift Pure Cry , Bog Child Ann Downer : The Spellkey , The Glass Salamander , The Books of the Keepers Jenny Downham : Before I Die Sharon Draper : Tears of a Tiger , The Battle of Jericho , Copper Sun , Romiette and Julio Diane Duane : Young Wizards seriesTessa Duder : Alex Quartet Rosamond du Jardin : Practically Seventeen , Double Date , Wait for Marcy Lois Duncan : I Know What You Did Last Summer , Killing Mr. Griffin , Summer of Fear Jeanne DuPrau : The City of Ember
E Akwaeke Emezi Jennifer Echols : Forget You , Going Too Far , Love Story , The Boys Next Door , Endless Summer , The One That I Want , Such A Rush Sara Bergmark Elfgren : Engelsfors Simone Elkeles : Perfect Chemistry , Rules of Attraction , Chain Reaction Anne Emery : Dinny Gordon series, The Popular Crowd Akwaeke Emezi : Pet Sylvia Engdahl : Enchantress from the Stars , This Star Shall Abide
F Nancy Yi Fan : Swordbird Hafsah Faizal : We Hunt the Flame Sara Farizan : If You Could Be Mine Nancy Farmer : The Ear, the Eye and the Arm , The House of the Scorpion , The Sea of Trolls Tim Federle : The Great American Whatever Catherine Fisher : The Book of the Crow , The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy , Darkhenge , Corbenic , Incarceron Becca Fitzpatrick : Hush, Hush , Crescendo , Silence Jasper Fforde : The Last Dragonslayer Sharon G. Flake : The Skin I'm In , Money Hungry Paul Fleischman : Whirligig , A Fate Totally Worse than Death Alex Flinn : Breathing Underwater , Beastly , Cloaked Timothée de Fombelle : Toby Alone , Vango Dennis Foon : The Longlight Legacy , Double or Nothing Lani Forbes : Age of the Seventh Sun Antonia Forest : Peter's Room , Thuggery Affair , The Attic Term Gayle Forman : If I Stay , Where She Went , Just One Day , I Was Here Paula Fox : One-Eyed Cat , The Slave Dancer Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl E.R. Frank : Life Is Funny , America , Wrecked , Friction Mariah Fredericks : In the Cards: Love , Crunch Time , The True Meaning of Cleavage , Head Games , The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot , Fatal Distraction Benedict and Nancy Freedman : Mrs. Mike Russell Freedman : Lincoln: A Photobiography , The Life and Death of Crazy Horse , Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Discovered Barbara C. Freeman : The Other Face , A Haunting Air , Snow in the Maze Mark Frost : The Paladin Prophecy Cornelia Funke : Inkheart , The Thief Lord , Dragon Rider
G Kami Garcia Jostein Gaarder : Sophie's World , The Orange Girl Claudia Gabel : In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires Neil Gaiman : Coraline , The Graveyard Book Eric Gansworth : Apple (Skin to the Core) Jack Gantos : Joey Pigza series, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)Stephanie Garber : Caraval seriesKami Garcia : Beautiful Creatures Nancy Garden : Annie on My Mind , The Year They Burned the Books Sally Gardner : I, Coriander , Maggot Moon Alan Garner : The Weirdstone of Brisingamen , Elidor , The Owl Service , Red Shift Jean Craighead George : Julie of the Wolves , My Side of the Mountain , Julie Adèle Geras : Troy , Happy Ever After , Silent Snow, Secret Snow Gail Giles : Shattering Glass M-E Girard : Girl Mans Up Morris Gleitzman : Two Weeks with the Queen , Worry Warts , Puppy Fat Anna Godbersen : Luxe series: The Luxe , Rumors , Envy , Splendor Parke Godwin : The Tower of Beowulf Glenda Goertzen : Lady Oak Abroad William Golding : Lord of the Flies Chloe Gong : These Violent Delights Michael Grant : Gone Claudia Gray : Firebird series, Spellcaster series, Evernight seriesJohn Green : Looking for Alaska , An Abundance of Katherines , Paper Towns , The Fault in Our Stars , Will Grayson, Will Grayson , Turtles All the Way Down Bette Greene : Summer of My German Soldier Robert Joseph Greene : This High School Has Closets John Grisham : Theodore Boone seriesRobin Jones Gunn : Christy Miller series, Sierra Jensen seriesRosa Guy : The Friends , The Disappearance
H Charlie Higson Robin Ha : Almost American Girl PJ Haarsma : The Softwire seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix : Among the Hidden , Found Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Shannon Hale : The Books of Bayern series, Princess Academy Alex Hall : Ben Drowned seriesBarbara Hall : Dixie Storms , House across the Cove , Tempo Change Laurell K. Hamilton : Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter , Meredith Gentry series Jenny Han : The Summer I Turned Pretty , To All the Boys I've Loved Before Victoria Hanley : Seer and the Sword seriesLisi Harrison : The Clique , Monster High Alix E. Harrow : The Ten Thousand Doors of January , The Once and Future Witches Brent Hartinger : Geography Club Rachel Hartman : Seraphina Sonya Hartnett : Sleeping Dogs , Thursday's Child , Surrender James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisholm , The Geography of Hope Pete Hautman : Godless , Invisible Louise Hawes : The Vanishing Point , Waiting for Christopher , Rosey in the Present Tense Rachel Hawkins : Hex Hall series , Rebel Belle trilogyLian Hearn : Across the Nightingale Floor Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction ): Red Planet Claire Hennessy : Dear Diary Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment? Karen Hesse : Out of the Dust , Witness (novels in verse)Carl Hiaasen : Hoot , Flush , Scat Brenda Hiatt : Starstruck Charlie Higson : Young Bond S.E. Hinton : The Outsiders , Rumble Fish , Tex , That Was Then, This Is Now Will Hobbs : Downriver , Far North , Crossing the Wire Amanda Hocking : My Blood Approves Series , Switched Trilogy Alice Hoffman : Green Angel Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction ): A Stir of Bones , Spirits That Walk in Shadow Linda Holeman : Promise Song , Mercy's Birds , Raspberry House Blues Jennifer Holm : Our Only May Amelia , Boston Jane Stevin Hoover : The Hannah Chronicles: Book One, The Door in the Floor Cathy Hopkins : Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl seriesEllen Hopkins : Crank Anthony Horowitz : The Power of Five series, The Diamond Brothers , Alex Rider Erin Hunter : Warriors series, New Prophecy series, The Power of Three Mollie Hunter : The Stronghold , A Stranger Came Ashore , Cat, Herself Zora Neale Hurston : Their Eyes Were Watching God
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J Carrie Jones Holly Jackson : Good Girl's Guide to Murder seriesTiffany D. Jackson : Allegedly , Monday's Not Coming , Grown Brian Jacques : Redwall seriesAdiba Jaigirdar : The Henna Wars A. M. Jenkins : Damage , Repossessed , Night Road Alaya Dawn Johnson : The Summer Prince Angela Johnson : Toning the Sweep , Heaven , The First Part Last Catherine Johnson : Sawbones , The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo George Matthew Johnson : All Boys Aren't Blue Leah Johnson : You Should See Me in a Crown Maureen Johnson : 13 Little Blue Envelopes , The Name of the Star, Truly Devious E. K. Johnston : Ashoka , A Thousand Nights Carrie Jones : Need , Captivate , Entice Diana Wynne Jones : Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet , Fire and Hemlock , Power of Three , Dark Lord of Derkholm , Year of the Griffin , Deep Secret , The Merlin Conspiracy , Howl's Moving Castle , Castle in the Air , House of Many Ways Graham Joyce : TWOC , Do the Creepy Thing , Three Ways to Snog an Alien
K Lauren Kate Stacey Kade : The Ghost and the Goth Julie Kagawa : Iron Fey series, Blood of Eden seriesLauren Kate : Fallen , Torment , Passion Amie Kaufman : Illuminae Files series, Starbound trilogyMarilyn Kaye : Gifted seriesBrian Keaney : Jacob's Ladder , The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe , The Private Life of Georgia Brown Harold Keith : Rifles for Watie Kody Keplinger : The DUFF M. E. Kerr : Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack , Little Little , Night Kites , Deliver Us from Evie , Fell , Gentlehands Alexander Key : The Incredible Tide Mahmona Khan : Skitten Snø , Fra Oslo til Lahore , Når du minst venter det Celine Kiernan : The Poison Throne , Into the Grey Patrice Kindl : Owl in Love , Goose Chase A. S. King : Please Ignore Vera Dietz , Ask the Passengers David Klass : Danger Zone , You Don't Know Me Annette Curtis Klause : The Silver Kiss , Blood and Chocolate TJ Klune : The Extraordinaries Elizabeth Knox : Dreamhunter , Dreamquake , Mortal Fire Ron Koertge : The Arizona Kid E. L. Konigsburg : Silent to the Bone , The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place , The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World Alethea Kontis : Woodcutter Sisters seriesGordon Korman : Macdonald Hall series, Island series , Jake, Reinvented , No More Dead Dogs , The 39 Clues : One False Note & The Emperor's Code Jay Kristoff : Illuminae Files series, Lifel1k3 Naomi Kritzer : Catfishing on CatNet Alice Kuipers : Life on the Refrigerator Door , The Worst Thing She Ever Did , 40 Things I Want To Tell You
L Malinda Lo Nina LaCour : Hold Still , Everything Leads to You , We Are Okay , Watch Over Me Elizabeth Laird : Red Sky in the Morning , Jake's Tower , A Little Piece of Ground Janet Lambert : Star Spangled Summer , Introducing Parri Derek Landy : Skulduggery Pleasant Lori Lansens : The Girls: A Novel Justine Larbalestier : Magic or Madness , How to Ditch Your Fairy , Liar Kathryn Lasky : Blood Secret , Beyond the Burning Time , True North Iain Lawrence : Lord of the Nutcracker Men Michael Lawrence : Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogyPatrice Lawrence : Orangeboy , Indigo Donut , Eight Pieces of Silva , Needle Ursula K. Le Guin : A Wizard of Earthsea , Very Far Away from Anywhere Else Madeleine L'Engle : The Time Quartet , Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family seriesMackenzi Lee : The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Tanith Lee : The Castle of Dark , The Claidi Journals , Piratica Peter Lerangis : Seven Wonders seriesBillie Letts : Where The Heart Is Gail Carson Levine : The Wish , Ella Enchanted , Fairest , Dave at Night , The Two Princesses of Bamarre David Levithan : Boy Meets Boy , The Realm of Possibility , Every Day , Will Grayson, Will Grayson Robert Lipsyte : The Contender , The Brave , The Chief , One Fat Summer Malinda Lo : Ash , Last Night at the Telegraph Club E. Lockhart : We Were Liars , The Boyfriend List , The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks ,Ruth Frances Long : The Treachery of Beautiful Things , A Crack in Everything Maud Lovelace : Heaven to Betsy , Betsy and the Great World Lois Lowry : The Giver , The Silent Boy , Number the Stars , Gathering Blue Marie Lu : Legend , Prodigy , Champion , Warcross Barry Lyga : The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl , Boy Toy Frances Lynn : Crushed
M James Moloney Sarah J. Maas : Throne of Glass , A Court of Thorns and Roses Carolyn Mackler : The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things , Vegan Virgin Valentine , Love and Other Four Letter Words Tahereh Mafi : Shatter Me seriesKekla Magoon : How it Went Down, X Michelle Magorian : A Little Love Song Adeline Yen Mah : Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter , Chinese Cinderella , Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society Shelby Mahurin : Serpent & Dove seriesMargaret Mahy : Alchemy , The Changeover Sarra Manning : Let's Get Lost , Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things , Guitar Girl Keith Mansfield : Johnny Mackintosh seriesMelina Marchetta : Looking for Alibrandi , Saving Francesca , On the Jellicoe Road , Finnikin of the Rock Jan Mark : The Eclipse of the Century , Useful Idiots , Riding Tycho , Voyager Melissa Marr : Wicked Lovely , Ink Exchange , Fragile Eternity John Marsden : Tomorrow seriesAnn M. Martin : California Diaries Bobbie Ann Mason : In Country Syed M. Masood : The Bad Muslim Discount , More Than Just a Pretty Face Sue Mayfield : Drowning Anna Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer : Heartbeat Megan McCafferty : Jessica Darling series, Bumped , Thumped Anne McCaffrey : Dragonriders of Pern , The Ship Who Sang , Dinosaur Planet Norah McClintock : The Mike & Riel series , The Robyn Hunter series , The Chloe & Levesque series Patricia McCormick : Cut , My Brother's Keeper Lurlene McDaniel : One Last Wish , Hit and Run , Don't Die, My Love , Till Death Do Us Part Mindy McGinnis : Be Not Far from Me, Heroine, The Female of the Species Anthony McGowan : The Knife That Killed Me , Hello Darkness , The Truth of Things seriesSeanan McGuire : Every Heart a Doorway Sharon E. McKay : Charlie Wilcox , War Brothers , Prison Boy Robin McKinley : Beauty , The Hero and the Crown , Spindle's End , Rose Daughter Anna-Marie McLemore : When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty Lisa McMann : Wake , Fade , Gone Karen M. McManus : One of Us Is Lying Richelle Mead : Vampire Academy series, Bloodlines , The Golden Lily Stephen W. Meader : Bulldozer , Commodore's Cup , T Model Tommy Meg Medina : Burn Baby Burn , Milagros: Girl from Away , Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass O. R. Melling : The Hunter's Moon Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man Sandhya Menon : When Dimple Met Rishi Melinda Metz : Roswell High , Fingerprints Marissa Meyer : The Lunar Chronicles , Renegades Stephenie Meyer : Twilight , New Moon , Eclipse , Breaking Dawn , The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner , The Host , Life and Death Ben Mikaelsen : Petey , Touching Spirit Bear Gloria D. Miklowitz : After the Bomb Sarah Mlynowski : Bras and Broomsticks James Moloney : The Book of Lies , Master of the Books Patrick Moore : Scott Saunders Space Adventure seriesPerry Moore : Hero Kass Morgan : The 100 Lorin Morgan-Richards : A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels , The Goodbye Family Jaclyn Moriarty : The Year of Secret Assignments , Feeling Sorry for Celia , The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie Jess Mowry : Way Past Cool , Babylon Boyz Robert Muchamore : CHERUB seriesBrandon Mull : Fablehaven series, Beyonders series, The Candy Shop War , The Arcade Catastrophe , Pingo Mike Mullin : Ashfall Julie Murphy : Side Effects May Vary , Dumplin' , Puddin' Walter Dean Myers : Fallen Angels , Hoops , Monster , The Mouse Rap , Outside Shot , Scorpions , Slam , Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Lauren Myracle : ttyl , ttfn , l8r, g8r , Rhymes with Witches
N Naomi Novik Beverley Naidoo : Chain of Fire , No Turning Back , Web of Lies Donna Jo Napoli : Daughter of Venice , Bound , Sirena Phyllis Reynolds Naylor : Ice , Shiloh , Alice seriesJandy Nelson : The Sky Is Everywhere , I'll Give You the Sun Patrick Ness : More Than This , Chaos Walking Trung Le Nguyen : The Magic Fish William Nicholson : Wind on Fire trilogySusin Nielsen : The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen , We Are All Made of Molecules , No Fixed Address Jennifer Niven : All the Bright Places Garth Nix : The Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower Joan Lowery Nixon : The Other Side of Dark , The Name of the Game Was Murder , The Haunting Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars Are Ours! , Star Gate , The Beast Master Naomi Novik : Scholomance trilogy
O Joyce Carol Oates : Big Mouth & Ugly Girl , Sexy Tyne O'Connell : The Calypso Chronicles , True Love Patrick O'Connor : The Black Tiger , Mexican Road Race , The Society of Foxes Scott O'Dell : Island of the Blue Dolphins Nnedi Okorafor : Zahrah the Windseeker , Akata Witch Daniel José Older : Shadowshaper Lauren Oliver : Delirium , Before I Fall , Panic , Vanishing Girls , Replica Louise O'Neill : Only Ever Yours , Asking For It Tochi Onyebuchi : War Girls Alice Oseman : Solitaire , Radio Silence , Heartstopper, Loveless
P Tamora Pierce Christopher Paolini : Inheritance Cycle Emily X.R. Pan : The Astonishing Color of After Kevin Panetta : Bloom Linda Sue Park : A Single Shard , When My Name Was Keoko , The 39 Clues : Storm Warning Francine Pascal : Sweet Valley High , Fearless series, The Ruling Class Sonia Patel : Rani Patel in Full Effect , Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story , Bloody Seoul Katherine Paterson : Jacob Have I Loved , Lyddie James Patterson : Maximum Ride series, Witch and Wizard series, Daniel X seriesGary Paulsen : Brian's Saga , Canyons , Nightjohn , Sarny , Soldier's Heart , Dogsong Jackson Pearce : As You Wish , Sisters Red Mary E. Pearson : A Room on Lorelei Street , The Adoration of Jenna Fox Richard Peck : A Long Way from Chicago , Princess Ashley , A Year Down Yonder Robert Newton Peck : Clunie , A Day No Pigs Would Die , Extra Innings Mal Peet : The Penalty , Keeper , Exposure , Tamar Anna Perera : Guantanamo Boy , The Glass Collector Stephanie Perkins : Anna and the French Kiss Julie Anne Peters : Keeping You a Secret , Luna , Define Normal Stefan Petrucha : TimeTripper , Ripper , Teen, Inc. , The Rule of Won Stella Pevsner : And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine , Cute is a Four-Letter Word K. M. Peyton : Flambards , The Right-Hand Man , Pennington's Seventeenth Summer Susan Beth Pfeffer : Life as We Knew It , The Dead and the Gone James Phelan : The Last Thirteen , Alone Rodman Philbrick : Freak the Mighty , The Fire Pony Ben Philippe : The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Joan Phipson : Dinko , A Tide Flowing , The Watcher in the Garden , Bianca Jodi Picoult : Between the Lines , My Sister's Keeper Meredith Ann Pierce : The Darkangel trilogy, The Firebringer trilogyTamora Pierce : The Song of the Lioness , The Immortals , Protector of the Small , Trickster's Choice , Trickster's Queen , Provost's Dog , Circle of Magic , The Circle Opens Aprilynne Pike : Wings Christopher Pike : Chain Letter , Remember Me , Alosha Daniel Pinkwater : The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death Elizabeth Marie Pope : The Sherwood Ring , The Perilous Gard Connie Porter : Imani All Mine Susan Price : The Sterkarm Handshake , A Sterkarm Kiss , Odin's Voice , Odin's Queen J.A. Proctor: The Supernaturals Series Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After Anne Provoost : Falling , My Aunt is a Pilot Whale , In the Shadow of the Ark Philip Pullman : Sally Lockhart series, His Dark Materials trilogy
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R Rainbow Rowell Bali Rai : (Un)arranged Marriage , Fire City , Killing Honour , Rani & Sukh , The Crew , The Whisper , Angel Collector , The Last Taboo , The Gun , Shivers .Janette Rallison : It's a Mall World After All , Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List , Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws Ellen Raskin : The Westing Game , Figgs & Phantoms Wilson Rawls : Where the Red Fern Grows Carolyn Reeder : Shades of Gray Celia Rees : Witch Child , Sorceress , The Wish House , The Vanished , The Cunning Man , Pirates! David Rees : Storm Surge , Quintin's Man , In the Tent , Risks Sarah Rees Brennan : The Demon's Lexicon , The Demon's Covenant Philip Reeve : Mortal Engines Quartet , Larklight , Starcross , Here Lies Arthur Kathryn Reiss : The Glass House People , Dreadful Sorry , PaperQuake , Blackthorn Winter Louise Rennison : Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging , ...And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand Jason Reynolds : All American Boys , Boy in the Black Suit , Long Way Down , Ghost Morton Rhue : The Wave , Asphalt Tribe , Boot Camp Randy Ribay : Patron Saints of Nothing , After the Shot Drops Ransom Riggs : Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ann Rinaldi : A Break with Charity , The Last Silk Dress , Numbering All the Bones , Wolf by the Ears Rick Riordan : Percy Jackson seriesThomas Rockwell : How To Eat Fried Worms , How to Fight a Girl Ginny Rorby : Dolphin Sky , Hurt Go Happy Malcolm Rose : Traces series , The Death Gene , Plague , Transplant , The Tortured Wood Liz Rosenberg : Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems Meg Rosoff : How I Live Now , Just in Case , What I Was Veronica Rossi : Under the Never Sky , Through the Ever Night , Into the Still Blue Veronica Roth : Divergent trilogy, Carve the Mark Rainbow Rowell : Eleanor & Park , Fangirl , Carry On J. K. Rowling : Harry Potter seriesLois Ruby : Shanghai Shadows Anna Rutgers van der Loeff : Children on the Oregon Trail (De Kinderkaravaan )Marie Rutkoski : The Winner's trilogyCynthia Rylant : Missing May , I Had Seen Castles , God Went to Beauty School C. J. Redwine : Defiance Trilogy , the Ravenspire series and Rise of the Vicious Princess Series
S Neal Shusterman Louis Sachar : Holes , Small Steps Benjamin Alire Sáenz : Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Françoise Sagan : Bonjour Tristesse J. D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye , Franny and Zooey Graham Salisbury : Shark Bait , Island Boyz , Lord of the Deep , Under the Blood Red Sun , Jungle Dogs , Eyes of the Emperor Liselle Sambury : Blood Like Magic Alex Sánchez : Rainbow Boys , So Hard to Say , Getting It , The God Box Erika Sánchez : I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Brandon Sanderson : Skyward seriesGavril Savit : Anna and the Swallow Man , The Way Back Kurtis Scaletta : Mudville , Mamba Point , The Tanglewood Terror Ellen Schreiber : Vampire Kisses seriesVictoria Schwab : Monsters of Verity seriesElizabeth Scott : Bloom , Perfect You , Stealing Heaven , Living Dead Girl , Something Maybe , Love You Hate You Miss You Kieran Scott : I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader , Geek Magnet Michael Scott : The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel seriesLisa See : Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Marcus Sedgwick : The Book of Dead Days , The Dark Flight Down , Blood Red, Snow White , My Swordhand is Singing Ruta Sepetys : Between Shades of Gray , Salt to the Sea , I Must Betray You Darren Shan : The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak ) , The Demonata , The City , The Saga of Larten Crepsley Dyan Sheldon : Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Sara Shepard : Pretty Little Liars series , The Lying Game Zoa Sherburne : Jennifer , Too Bad About the Haines Girl Valerie Sherrard : Sarah's Legacy , Testify , Counting Back from Nine , The Glory Wind Gena Showalter : Intertwined Mark Shulman : Scrawl , Secret Hiding Places Neal Shusterman : The Dark Side of Nowhere , Downsiders , The Schwa Was Here , Full Tilt Adam Silvera : More Happy Than Not , They Both Die at the End Marilyn Singer : The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth , Horsemaster Sarah Singleton : Century , Heretic , Sacrifice , The Amethyst Child , The Poison Garden Alan Lawrence Sitomer : The Hoopster , Hip Hop High School , Homeboyz William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs , Singularity , The Boy Who Reversed Himself , Interstellar Pig Andrew A. Smith : Grasshopper Jungle , Winger Betty Smith : A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Dodie Smith : I Capture the Castle L. J. Smith : The Vampire Diaries , Night World , The Forbidden Game , The Secret Circle , Dark Visions Roland Smith : Peak Sonya Sones : What My Mother Doesn't Know , What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know Gary Soto : The Afterlife , Baseball in April and other Stories , Living Up the Street Ivan Southall : Josh , Ash Road , Hills End , To the Wild Sky , Bread and Honey , Fly West , the Simon Black series.Beatrice Sparks (publishing as Anonymous): Go Ask Alice , Jay's Journal Nicholas Sparks : The Notebook , The Last Song , Dear John , A Walk To Remember Elizabeth George Speare : The Witch of Blackbird Pond Eleanor Spence : The October Child , A Candle for St. Antony Jerry Spinelli : There's a Girl in My Hammerlock , Crash , Stargirl Nancy Springer : I Am Mordred , I Am Morgan le Fay , Blood Trail , Dussie , The Boy on a Black Horse ND Stevenson : Nimona Caroline Stevermer : Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot , A College of Magics , River Rats Maggie Stiefvater : The Wolves of Mercy Falls , The Raven Cycle R. L. Stine : The Fear Street seriesLaurie Faria Stolarz : Blue is for Nightmares , Project 17 Nic Stone : Dear Martin Tanya Lee Stone : A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl Francisco X. Stork : Marcelo in the Real World Mats Strandberg : Engelsfors Todd Strasser : Boot Camp , Give a Boy a Gun , The Accident , Can't Get There from Here Jonathan Stroud : The Bartimaeus Trilogy , The Leap Zoe Sugg : Girl Online Deirdre Sullivan : Perfectly Preventable Deaths , Needlework , Tangleweed and Brine Nova Ren Suma : Imaginary Girls , The Walls Around Us Courtney Summers : Sadie Rosemary Sutcliff : The Eagle of the Ninth , Warrior Scarlet , The Mark of the Horse Lord Krystal Sutherland : Our Chemical Hearts , House of Hollow Tabitha Suzuma : From Where I Stand , Forbidden , Hurt
T Sabaa Tahir Robin Talley : Lies We Tell Ourselves Sabaa Tahir : An Ember in the Ashes Mariko Tamaki : This One Summer , Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me Janet Tashjian : The Gospel According to Larry , Vote for Larry Mildred Taylor : Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry , Let the Circle Be Unbroken , The Land Laini Taylor : Daughter of Smoke and Bone , Strange the Dreamer Jean Thesman : Appointment with a Stranger , Cattail Moon , Calling the Swan , A Sea So Far Aiden Thomas : Cemetery Boys Angie Thomas : The Hate U Give , On the Come Up Joyce Carol Thomas : Marked by Fire Rob Thomas : Rats Saw God , Green Thumb Kate Thompson : Annan Water , The Beguilers , The New Policeman Johanna Thydell : In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining Sharon Tregenza : Tarantula Tide Megan Whalen Turner : The Thief Mark Twain : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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V Vivian Vande Velde : Heir Apparent , User Unfriendly , Never Trust a Dead Man , Dragon's Bait Wendelin Van Draanen : Sammy Keyes series, Flipped , The Running Dream , Wild Bird , Runaway Lizzie Velásquez : Be Beautiful, Be You Siobhan Vivian : The List , Burn for Burn trilogy (co-written with Jenny Han ), The Last Boy and Girl in the World Ned Vizzini : It's Kind of a Funny Story , Be More Chill Cynthia Voigt : Homecoming , Dicey's Song , Come a Stranger , A Solitary Blue , Sons from Afar , Izzy, Willy-Nilly , Bad Girls Seita Vuorela : Viimi , Karikko , Lumi
W Allan Wolf Judy Waite : Shopaholic , Forbidden Melissa Walker : Violet on the Runway , Violet by Design , Violet in Private , Lovestruck Summer Jeannette Walls : The Glass Castle , Half-Broke Horses Eric Walters : The Hydrofoil Mystery , Camp X , Shattered Jen Wang : The Prince and the Dressmaker James Watson : Talking in Whispers , Ticket to Prague , Justice of the Dagger Catherine Webb : Mirror Dreams , Mirror Wakes , Timekeepers , Waywalkers Jean Webster : Daddy-Long-Legs , Dear Enemy Elizabeth Wein : Code Name Verity Dan Wells : I Am Not a Serial Killer , Partials Sequence Rosemary Wells : Through the Hidden Door Nancy Werlin : Are You Alone on Purpose , The Killer's Cousin , Locked Inside , Black Mirror , Double Helix , The Rules of Survival Scott Westerfeld : Midnighters trilogy, Peeps , The Last Days , Uglies series, Leviathan seriesSuzanne Weyn : The Bar Code Tattoo John Corey Whaley : Where Things Come Back Alex Wheatle : Liccle Bit , Crongton Knights Gloria Whelan : Homeless Bird Kiersten White : Paranormalcy Ysabeau S. Wilce : The Flora Segunda series Terry Lee Wilde : The Vampire...In My Dreams , Deidre's Secret Lili Wilkinson : Scatterheart Rita Williams-Garcia : Like Sisters on the Homefront , Every Time a Rainbow Dies , No Laughter Here Pam Withers : Take It to the Xtreme series, Daredevil Club , First Descent Ellen Wittlinger : Heart on My Sleeve , Hard Love , What's in A Name Yu Wo : ½ Prince Allan Wolf : The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep , The Watch That Ends the Night , New Found Land Virginia Euwer Wolff : True Believer , Making Lemonade Christopher Wooding : Broken Sky , The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray , Storm Thief , Poison , Kerosene , End Game Jacqueline Woodson : Miracle's Boys , Brown Girl Dreaming Patricia C. Wrede : Enchanted Forest Chronicles Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)Diana Wynne Jones : See above, Jones.
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Z Sara Zarr Allen Zadoff : Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have , My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies Carlos Ruiz Zafón : The Prince of Mist , Marina Timothy Zahn : Dragonback series Sara Zarr : Story of a Girl , How to Save a Life , Once Was Lost Gabrielle Zevin : Elsewhere , Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Kat Zhang : What's Left of Me Xiran Jay Zhao : Iron Widow Cecily von Ziegesar : Gossip Girl series, It Girl seriesPaul Zindel : The Pigman , The Pigman's Legacy , My Darling, My Hamburger , Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! , Confessions of a Teenage Baboon Ibi Zoboi : American Street, Pride Markus Zusak : The Book Thief , The Messenger
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