Time Magazine Top 100 YA Books of All Time – 2021

I saw an author tweet this list from Time Magazine and I thought it would be cool to take a look and see what books I have read from this list. It’s the list of 100 YA books of all time, all time meaning books from the 1800’s to present.

1. Little Women by. Louisa May Alcott
2. Anne of Green Gables by. L.M. Montgomery
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by. Betty Smith
4. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by. Anne Frank
5. The Catcher in the Rye by. J.D. Salinger
6. Lord of the Flies by. William Golding
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by. Harper Lee
8. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by. E.L. Konigsburg
9. A Wizard of Earthsea by. Ursula K. Le Guin
10. I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip by. John Donovan
11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by. Judy Blume
12. A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich by. Alice Childress
13. Forever by. Judy Blume
14. Tuck Everlasting by. Natalie Babbitt
15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by. Mildred D. Taylor
16. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by. Madeleine L’Engle
17. The Westing Game by. Ellen Raskin
18. Homecoming by. Cynthia Voight
19. The House on Mango Street by. Sandra Cisneros
20. Weetzie Bat by. Francesca Lia Block
21. The Giver by. Lois Lowry
22. Ella Enchanted by. Gail Carson Levine
23. Holes by. Louis Sachar
24. If You Come Softly by. Jacqueline Woodson
25. Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by. Louise Rennison
26. Monster by. Walter Dean Myers
27. Speak by. Laurie Halse Anderson
28. Stargirl by. Jerry Spinelli
29. The Princess Diaries by. Meg Cabot
30. A Step From Heaven by. An Na
31. Rainbow Boys by. Alex Sanchez
32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by. Ann Brashares
33. Before We Were Free by. Julia Alvarez
34. Feed by. M.T. Anderson
35. Persepolis by. Marjane Satrapi
36. How I Live Now by. Meg Rosoff
37. Code Talker by. Joseph Bruchac
38. Elsewhere by. Gabrielle Zevin
39. The Book Thief by. Markus Zusak
40. The Lightening Thief by. Rick Riordon
41. American Born Chinese by. Gene Luen Yang
42. Copper Sun by. Sharon Draper
43. Tyrell by. Coe Booth
44. Graceline by. Kristin Cashore
45. The Hunger Games by. Suzanne Collins
46. Ship Breaker by. Paolo Bacigalupi
47. Akata Witch by. Nnedi by. Okorafor
48. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by. Laini Taylor
49. Legend by. Marie Lu
50. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by. Benjamin Alire Saenz
51. Code Name Verity by. Elizabeth Wein
52. Every Day by. David Levithan
53. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by. Jesse Andrews
54. The Fault in Our Stars by. John Green
55. If You Could Be Mine by. Sara Farizan
56. March: Book One by. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by. Nate Powell **
57. Brown Girl Dreaming by. Jacqueline Woodson
58. I’ll Give You the Sun by. Jandy Nelson
59. Noggin by. John Corey Whaley
60. The Crossover by. Kwame Alexander
61. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by. Jenny Han
62. An Ember in the Ashes by. Sabaa Tahir
63. Dumplin’ by. Julie Murphy
64. Everything, Everything by. Nicola Yoon
65. March: Book Two by. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by. Nate Powell **
66. More Happy Than Not by. Adam Silvera
67. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by. Becky Albertalli
68. Six of Crows by. Leigh Bardugo
69. Salt to the Sea by. Ruta Sepetys
70. Scythe by. Neal Shusterman
71. The Sun Is Also a Star by. Nicola Yoon
72. We are the Ants by. Shaun David Hutchinson
73. When the Moon Was Ours by. Anna-Marie McLemore
74. Allegedly by. Tiffany D. Jackson
75. American Street by. Ibi Zoboi **
76. Dear Martin by. Nic Stone
77. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by. Erica L. Sanchez
78. Long Way Down by. Jason Reynolds
79. The 57 Bus by. Dashka Slater
80. The Hate U Give by. Angie Thomas
81. The Marrow Thieves by. Cherie Dimaline
82. We Are Okay by. Nina LaCour **
83. When Dimple Met Rishi by. Sandhya Menon
84. A Very Large Expanse of the Sea by. Tahereh Mafi **
85. Children of Blood and Bone by. Tomi Adeyemi
86. Darius the Great is Not Okay by. Adib Khorram
87. The Astonishing Color of After by. Emily X.R. Pan
88. The Poet X by. Elizabeth Acevedo **
89. Frankly in Love by. David Yoon
90. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by. Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by. Rosemary Valero O’Connell
91. Like a Love Story by. Abdi Nazemian **
92. Pet by. Akwaeke Emezi **
93. With the Fire on High by. Elizabeth Acevedo
94. The Black Flamingo by. Dean Atta
95. Felix Ever After by. Kacen Callender **
96. Stamped by. Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
97. The Henna Wars by. Adiba Jaigirdar **
98. We Are Not Free by. Traci Chee
99. You Should See Me In a Crown by. Leah Johnson
100. Firekeeper’s Daughter by. Angeline Boulley

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Wow, I’ve only read 28 from this list lol…oh well. There are a few on here that are already on my TBR though.

Bold Titles = books I’ve read

** = books on my TBR list

title in Italic = watched the movie adaptation, not that it counts lol

It looks pretty diverse which is great. This is the first time I’ve actually paid attention to their list. If you want to check out the actual article and list, please click here ➡️ Time Magazine.

What do you think about this list? ~ Yolanda