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It’s Best Books season again, and we will be tracking the lists over the next few weeks to see which titles have been selected as exemplary books for teens and young adults!
My goal — 30 Best Books lists from diverse and reputable sources across media — journals, magazines, newspapers, libraries, blogs, book sites, etc. Challenge: accepted!
Over the holiday break I will be aggregating them into my final best books lists, similar to this post from December 2015: Best YA Books of 2015.
School Library Journal – Best Books 2016
Library Journal – Best Books 2016: Top 10 (Adult Fiction / Nonfiction)
Booklist – Editors’ Choice 2016: Adult Books / Adult Books for Young Adults / Books For Youth
Kirkus Reviews – Best of 2016: Fiction / Nonfiction / Teen
Horn Book – Horn Book Fanfare 2016
Publishers Weekly – Best Books 2016
New York Public Library – Best Books for Teens 2016
Chicago Public Library – CPL Best of the Best Books 2016
Time – Top 10 YA and Children’s Books / Top 10 Novels / Top 10 Nonfiction
Entertainment Weekly – The 20 Best Books of 2016
New York Times – The 10 Best Books of 2016, 100 Notable Books of 2016 and Notable Children’s Books of 2016
The Boston Globe – The Best Books of 2016
The Washington Post – The 10 Best Books of 2016 and Best Children’s and YA Books of 2016
The Wall Street Journal – The 20 Books The Defined Our Year / The Best Children’s Books of 2016
The Seattle Times – Critics’ Best Books of 2016 (Adult Fiction / Nonfiction)
The Los Angeles Times – Holiday books: 170 titles to give and to get / Hottest Books for Young Adults
The Guardian – Best Books of 2016 / Best Children’s Books of 2016
The Telegraph – The Best YA Books of 2016
Amazon – The Best Books of 2016 / Best Books of the Year: Young Adult
Barnes & Noble – 10 Must-Read Novels of 2016 / Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016
BNTeen Blog – The Best Young Adult Books of 2016 / The B&N Teen Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2016
NPR’s Book Concierge – Best Books of 2016 / Staff Picks / Young Adult
Goodreads – Best Books of 2016 / YA Fiction / YA Fantasy & Science Fiction (Goodreads Choice Awards)
The Slate Book Review – Laura Miller’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016 and Katy Waldman’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016
Forever Young Adult – FYA Faves: Best Books of 2016 (30 Titles)
Book Riot – Best of 2016 (Biography / Comics / Fantasy / Fiction / Nonfiction / Science Fiction / Mystery & Thriller / Young Adult)
BookPage – Best Books of 2016
Buzzfeed – 24 Best Fiction Books of 2016 | 19 Of The Best YA Books of 2016
The Huffington Post – The 18 Best Fiction Books of 2016 | Top 10 YA Books of 2015
PopCrush – 10 Best YA Books of 2016
Brooklyn Magazine – Best of the Best Books Lists