Best Literary Fiction books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
Literary Fiction
Total books found: 1,092
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World
by Katie Coyle
1/6/2015, 272 pages.
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the ...
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Diamond Boy
by Michael Williams
12/2/2014, 400 pages.
My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
"Diamonds for everyone." That's ...
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How It Went Down
by Kekla Magoon
10/21/2014, 336 pages.
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.
In the aftermath...
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Althea and Oliver
by Cristina Moracho
10/9/2014, 384 pages.
What if you live for the moment when life goes off the rails - and then one day there's no one left to help you get it back on track?
Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley have been...
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Rain Reign
by Ann M. Martin
10/7/2014, 240 pages.
Hearts will break and spirits will soar for this powerful story, brilliantly told.
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
by Sara Farizan
10/7/2014, 304 pages.
High-school junior Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. Her Persian heritage already makes ...
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Perfectly Good White Boy
by Carrie Mesrobian
10/1/2014, 304 pages.
"You never know where we'll end up. There's so much possibility in life, you know?" Hallie said. Sean Norwhalt can read between the lines. He knows Hallie's just dumped him. He was...
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The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley
10/1/2014, 235 pages.
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the ...
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
by Isabel Quintero
9/23/2014, 208 pages.
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My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. ...
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Jackaby
by William Ritter
9/16/2014, 304 pages.
"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world's a stage, ...
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