Inventory of Young Adult Literature

Please indicate which YA authors you know/are familiar with and list any books you’ve read or heard of that the author has written.

  1. Sherman Alexie
  2. Laurie Halse Anderson
  3. M. T. Anderson
  4. Jay Asher
  5. Avi
  6. Natalie Babbitt
  7. Adam Bagdasarian
  8. Joan Bauer
  9. Cherie Bennett
  10. Francesca Lia Block
  11. Judy Blume
  12. Ann Brashares
  13. Libba Bray
  14. Sue Ellen Bridgers
  15. Bruce Brooks
  16. Meg Cabot
  17. Orson Scott Card
  18. Ally Carter
  19. Stephen Chbosky
  20. Paulo Coelho
  21. Suzanne Collins
  22. Ally Condie
  23. Susan Cooper
  24. Robert Cormier
  25. Sharon Creech
  26. Chris Crowe
  27. Chris Crutcher
  28. Karen Cushman
  29. Edwidge Danticat
  30. de la Peña, Matt
  31. Sarah Dessen
  32. Jennifer Donnelly
  33. Sharon Draper
  34. Lois Duncan
  35. Laura Elliot
  36. Nancy Farmer
  37. Fisher Staples, Suzanne
  38. Paul Fleischman
  39. Alex Flinn
  40. Adrian Fogelin
  41. Paula Fox
  42. Jack Gantos
  43. Nancy Garden
  44. Michael Grant
  45. John Green
  46. Bette Greene
  47. Sheila Gordon
  48. Haddix Peterson, Margaret
  49. Haddon, Mark
  50. Hardinge, Frances
  51. Pete Hautman
  52. Karen Hesse
  53. S.E. Hinton
  54. Will Hobbs
  55. Ellen Hopkins
  56. M.E. Kerr
  57. Sue Monk Kidd
  58. Brendan Kiely
  59. Jamaica Kincaid
  60. A.S. King
  61. Annette Curtis Klause
  62. Bill Konigsberg
  63. Gordon Korman
  64. Kathryn Lasky
  65. Ursula K. Le Guin
  66. Madeleine L’Engle
  67. David Levithan
  68. C.S. Lewis
  69. Gail Carson Levine
  70. Robert Lipsyte
  71. E. Lockhart
  72. Lois Lowry
  73. Chris Lynch
  74. John Marsden
  75. Norma Fox Mazer
  76. Patricia McCormick
  77. Meg Medina
  78. Shelley Mickle
  79. Ben Mikaelsen
  80. Stephenie Meyer
  81. Pam Muñoz Ryan
  82. Walter Dean Myers
  83. An Na
  84. Donna Jo Napoli
  85. Patrick Ness
  86. Jennifer Nielsen
  87. Jennifer Niven
  88. Han Nolan
  89. Naomi Shihab Nye
  90. Katherine Paterson
  91. Gary Paulsen
  92. Rodman Philbrick
  93. Cindy Pon
  94. Chaim Potok
  95. Philip Pullman
  96. Isabel Quintero
  97. Adam Rapp
  98. Jason Reynolds
  99. Marilyn Reynolds
  100. Ann Rinaldi
  101. Rainbow Rowell
  102. J.K. Rowling
  103. Cynthia Rylant
  104. Pam Munoz Ryan
  105. Louis Sachar
  106. Benjamin AlireSáenz
  107. Ruth Sepetys
  108. Steve Sheinkin
  109. Neal Shusterman
  110. William Sleator
  111. Gary Soto
  112. Jerry Spinelli
  113. Francisco Stork
  114. Todd Strasser
  115. Mildred Taylor
  116. Angie Thomas
  117. J.R.R. Tolkien
  118. Terry Truman
  119. Vivian Vande Velde
  120. Ana Veciana-Suarez
  121. Cynthia Voight
  122. Nancy Werlin
  123. Scott Westerfeld
  124. Ruth White
  125. Rita Williams-Garcia
  126. Jacqueline Woodson
  127. Virginia Euwer Wolff
  128. Gene Luen Yang
  129. Jane Yolen
  130. Nicola Yoon
  131. Paul Zindel
  132. Markus Zusak