Every year, a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, selects 10 books published during the respective year that exemplify quality young adult fiction and non-fiction literature.

2007      2006      2005       2000-2004

2007
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson	Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz	Surrender by Sonya Hartnett	Sold by Patricia McCormick
Anahita's Woven Riddle by Meghan Nuttall Sayres	The Trap by John Smelcer	The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner	The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
	American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2006
Come Back to Afghanistan by Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton	Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti	Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon	Looking for Alaska by John Green
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch	Twilight by Stephenie Meyer	Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan	Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
	Poison by Chris Wooding	I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
2005
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff	Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis	The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. Hoose	The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta	Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo	Airborn by Kenneth Oppel	Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp
	Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz	So B. It by Sarah Weeks

Updated January 2007