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.

2004      2003      2002      2001      2000

2004
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks	A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon	The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan	The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard	East by Edith Pattou	33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
	The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud	Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson
2003
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson	Feed by M. T. Anderson	The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer	America by E. R. Frank
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman	The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Iain Lawrence	Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore	Left for Dead by Peter Nelson
	19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye	This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge
2002
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares	The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier	Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher	Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Damage by A. M. Jenkins	Zazoo by Richard Mosher	Lirael by Garth Nix	The Land by Midred D. Taylor
	Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-Garcia	True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2001
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian	Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer	Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier	Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by Jon Katz
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg	The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen	Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan	Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
	Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan	Memories of Summer by Ruth White
2000
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson	Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt	The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
Crooked by Laura McNeal and Tom McNeal	Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer	Monster by Walter Dean Myers	Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke	Imani All Mine by Connie Porter

Compiled October 2006