Top 25 YA Books and Series! World Book Day 2018

Happy World Book Day, everyone! I've done many lists here on this blog, and this year's no different.

This year I've listed my top 25 YA stand-alones and series. It was an insanely difficult task with some very difficult choices, but here are the books that made my list alphabetical by author.

1. Beautiful Broken Things - Sara Barnard
2. A Quiet Kind of Thunder - Sara Barnard
3. The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
4. Anna Dressed in Blood Duology - Kendare Blake
5. Am I Normal Yet? - Holly Bourne
6. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
7. One - Sarah Crossan
8. Before I Die - Jenny Downham
9. Just One Day - Gayle Forman
10. Gone Series - Michael Grant
11. Paper Towns - John Green
12. Lorien Legacies Series - Pittacus Lore
13. Warm Bodies Series - Isaac Marion
14. Chaos Walking - Patrick Ness
15. The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness
16. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
17. Divergent Trilogy - Veronica Roth
18. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
19. The Forest of Hands and Teeth Trilogy - Carrie Ryan
20. Daughter of Deep Silence - Carrie Ryan
21. Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater
22. Rephaim Series - Paula Weston
23. The Art of Being Normal - Lisa Williamson
24. Dustlands Trilogy - Moira Young
25. The Book Theif - Markus Zusak

Check them out this World Book Day!

Happy reading!


Molly Looby

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Top 25 YA Books/Series for I Read YA Week!

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It's that time again! Happy I read YA week! The blog I wrote for I read YA week last year is fitting this year as the theme is #YAStandsFor, and my blog was all about Why #IReadYA. The year before that, I listed ten YA books that people should be reading.

Now I'm going one step further. I'm going to list my top twenty-five YA stand-alone books and series. Every book/series on this list should be added to your TBR list immediately! They are phenomenal!

(In case you were wondering, they're alphabetical by author.)

1. The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
2. Anna Dressed in Blood duology - Kendare Blake
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
4. The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
5. Before I Die - Jenny Downham
6. Just One Day - Gayle Forman
7. Gone series - Michael Grant
8. Paper Towns - John Green
9. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
10. Unearthly trilogy - Cynthia Hand
11. Lorien Legacies series - Pittacus Lore
12. Warm Bodies series (including the prequel) - Isaac Marion
13. Chaos Walking trilogy - Patrick Ness
14. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
15. Divergent trilogy - Veronica Roth
16. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
17. Daughter of Deep Silence - Carrie Ryan
18. The Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy - Carrie Ryan
19. The Wolves of Mercy Falls series - Maggie Stiefvater
20. I am Not a Serial Killer series - Dan Wells
21. Rephaim series - Paula Weston
22. The Art of Being Normal - Lisa Williamson
23. 5th Wave trilogy - Rick Yancey
24. Dustlands trilogy - Moira Young
25. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Now I'm not saying these are the top twenty-five ever; they're just my current top twenty-five. I know for a fact there are a few books on my TBR list that'll make it onto this list. That's one of the great things about YA. When you think it can't get any better, a book comes along that blows you apart, breaking you and fixing you all at once.

And that's why I read YA.



If there's a book that made you feel this way that I don't have on my list, please let me know! I live for that kind of YA!


Molly Looby

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Why #IReadYA

It is no secret that I read YA. In fact, I read pretty much exclusively YA. There's something about YA that you just can't get in any other genre. I love the depth of the characters and their emotions and how many adventures you can go on in a YA book.

Last year for #IreadYA week I posted a blog about Books Nobody's Reading That Everyone Should Be Reading, celebrating some of my favourite YA books that for some reason other people aren't reading and shouting about! Since then, I can't say the list has changed that much so I won't be writing a new one. Instead, I'll do something different.

Here are a list of reasons to read YA;

• YA says things other genres are afraid of saying
• You can fall in love over and over again
• You can enter a world nothing like your own
• You can learn about real issues
• You make imaginary best friends
• You will laugh and cry--sometimes at the same time
• There are endless possibilities
• YA teaches you that you are not alone

There are thousands of reasons to read YA, but I think the most important one of all is:

YA is honest.

You want to know what it feels like to be heartbroken, bullied, trapped in an apocalypse, the chosen one? Whatever you want, it'll be there, ready for you.

YA is a world that anyone can escape to, not just the young adults the books are marketed to.

So pick up a YA. You might be a changed reader.

Molly Looby

Author / Editor in Chief at Molten Publishing / Freelance Editor / Writing Coach / Reviewer / Blogger / Wrimo / Movellian / ZA Ready

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