List of young adult writers
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This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here.
A
- Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found
- Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys, The Bridesmaid, The Perfect Boy
- Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
- Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven
- Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins
- Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
- Isabel Allende: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Forest of the Pygmies
- David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
- Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
- Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
- Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted
- M. T. Anderson: Feed
- V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic
- Anthony: A Journey, through Time, with Anthony
- Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
- Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time
- Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House, The Incredible Sixties, Treason in America
- Jennifer Armentrout: Covenant series, Lux series, Dark Elements series, Cursed
- Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Den of Shadows series, Kiesha'ra series
- Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
B
- Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
- Tyra Banks: Modelland
- David-Matthew Barnes: Mesmerized, Swimming to Chicago
- T. A. Barron: The Ancient One
- John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth
- Lynda Barry, cartoonist, graphic novelist
- Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
- Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person
- Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
- Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael
- Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If it Doesn't Kill You
- David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty
- Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's Courage, Tomorrow's Sphinx
- Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story
- Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone, Revolution 2020
- Franny Billingsley: The Folk Keeper, Chime
- Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
- Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses series
- Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
- Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Gwenda Bond: Blackwood, The Woken Gods, Girl on a Wire, Lois Lane: Fallout, Lois Lane: Double Down
- Frank Bonham: Durango Street
- Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
- Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Liz Braswell: The Nine Lives of Chloe King series
- Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
- Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
- Kate Brian: The Virginity Club, Private series
- Rae Bridgman: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
- Lauren Brooke: Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
- Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
- Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
- Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series
- Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
- Melvin Burgess: Junk, Doing It
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers
C
- Meg Cabot: The Mediator, 1-800-Where-R-U, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
- Rachel Caine: The Morganville Vampires series
- Deb Caletti: The Nature of Jade, The Secret Life of Prince Charming, The Six Rules of Maybe
- Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
- W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog's Purpose
- Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
- Patrick Carman: Dark Eden, Skeleton Creek, Trackers
- Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
- Ally Carter: The Gallagher Girls, Heist Society
- Kiera Cass: The Selection Series
- Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps
- P. C. Cast: House of Night series
- Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
- Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
- Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land
- Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
- Mark Childress: One Mississippi, Crazy In Alabama
- John Christopher: Prince in Waiting trilogy, Tripods trilogy
- Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
- Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices
- Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
- Rosemary Clement-Moore: Texas Gothic, The Splendor Falls, Prom Dates from Hell, Hell Week, Highway to Hell
- Brock Cole: The Goats
- Sneed B. Collard III: Double Eagle, Cartwheel
- Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead
- Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Trilogy
- Ally Condie: Matched, Crossed , Reached
- Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
- Pam Conrad: My Daniel
- Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
- Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
- Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
- Bruce Coville: Aliens Ate My Homework, Space Brat, My Teacher Is an Alien
- John Coy: Crackback, Box Out
- Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Ruby Holler
- Linda Crew: Children of the River
- Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
- Jane Louise Curry: The Watchers, A Stolen Life, The Black Canary
- Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud, Not Buddy
- Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
D
- Anita Daher: Spider's Song
- Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator
- Linden Dalecki: Kid B
- Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
- Emily Danforth: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
- Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
- Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
- Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever
- Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
- Graham Diamond The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
- Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
- Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
- Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody, The Snake-Stone, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
- Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form
- Jennifer Donnelly: A Northern Light, Revolution
- Siobhan Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry, Bog Child
- Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, written initially for adults
- Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
- Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet
- Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
E
- Jennifer Echols: Forget You, Going Too Far, Love Story, The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer, The One That I Want, Such A Rush
- Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction, Chain Reaction
F
- Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird
- Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls
- Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic, Incarceron
- Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence
- Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
- Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
- Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater, Beastly, Cloaked
- Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing
- Antonia Forest: Peter's Room, Thuggery Affair, The Attic Term
- Gayle Forman: If I Stay, Where She Went, Just One Day, I Was Here
- Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- E.R. Frank: Life Is Funny, America, Wrecked, Friction
- Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games, The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
- Benedict and Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
- Russell Freedman: Lincoln: A Photobiography, The Life and Death of Crazy Horse, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Discovered
- Barbara C. Freeman: The Other Face, A Haunting Air, Snow in the Maze
- Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider
G
- Claudia Gabel: In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires
- Neil Gaiman: Coraline, The Graveyard Book
- Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
- Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
- Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
- Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
- Adèle Geras: Troy, Happy Ever After, Silent Snow, Secret Snow
- Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
- Morris Gleitzman: Two Weeks with the Queen, Puppy Fat, Worry Warts
- Anna Godbersen: The Luxe Novels: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
- Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- Michael Grant: Gone
- Claudia Gray: The Firebird Series, The Spellcaster Series, The Evernight Series
- John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson, Will Grayson , Let It Snow
- Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
- Suresh & Jyoti Guptara: Conspiracy of Calaspia (Insanity Saga)
- Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
H
- PJ Haarsma: The Softwire series
- Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Found
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Shannon Hale: Princess Academy
- Barbara Hall: Dixie Storms, House across the Cove, Tempo Change
- Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Meredith Gentry series
- Jenny Han: The Summer I Turned Pretty
- Victoria Hanley: Seer and the Sword Series
- Lisi Harrison: The Clique, Monster High
- Brent Hartinger: Geography Club
- Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
- James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisholm, The Geography of Hope
- Pete Hautman: Godless, Invisible
- Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
- Lian Hearn: Across the Nightingale Floor
- Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction): Red Planet
- Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
- Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
- Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
- Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush, Scat
- Brenda Hiatt: Starstruck
- Charlie Higson: Young Bond
- S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now
- Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy
- Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow
- Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
- Stevin Hoover: The Hannah Chronicles: Book One, The Door in the Floor
- Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series
- Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider
- Erin Hunter: The Warriors series, the New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
- Mollie Hunter: The Stronghold, A Stranger Came Ashore, Cat, Herself
- Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
I
- Wendy Isdell: A Gebra Named Al, The Chemy Called Al
J
- Brian Jacques: Redwall series
- A. M. Jenkins: Damage, Repossessed, Night Road
- Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
- Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Girl at Sea, Suite Scarlett, Devilish, The Name of the Star
- Carrie Jones: Need, Captivate, Entice
- Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin, Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways
- Graham Joyce: TWOC, Do the Creepy Thing, Three Ways to Snog an Alien
K
- Stacey Kade: The Ghost and the Goth
- Julie Kagawa: Iron Fey series, Blood of Eden series
- Lauren Kate: Fallen, Torment, Passion
- Marilyn Kaye: Gifted series
- Brian Keaney: Jacob's Ladder, The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown
- Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
- M. E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
- Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
- David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
- Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
- E. L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
- Alethea Kontis: Woodcutter Sisters series
- Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, Island series, Jake, Reinvented, No More Dead Dogs, The 39 Clues: One False Note & The Emperor's Code
L
- Elizabeth Laird: Red Sky in the Morning, Jake's Tower, A Little Piece of Ground
- Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
- Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Liar
- Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
- Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
- Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
- Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
- Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
- Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
- Peter Lerangis: Seven Wonders series
- Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
- Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
- David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
- E. Lockhart: The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
- Ruth Frances Long: The Treachery of Beautiful Things
- Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
- Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
- Frances Lynn: Crushed
M
- Megan McCafferty: Jessica Darling series, Bumped, Thumped
- Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern, The Ship Who Sang, Dinosaur Planet
- Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
- Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
- D. J. MacHale: The Pendragon Adventure
- Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
- Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love and Other Four Letter Words
- Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone
- Michelle Magorian: A Little Love Song
- Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella, Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
- Margaret Mahy: Alchemy, The Changeover
- Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar Girl
- Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh series
- Melina Marchetta: Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, (On the) Jellicoe Road, Finnikin of the Rock
- Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
- Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
- John Marsden: Tomorrow series
- Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
- Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
- Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
- Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, Bloodlines, The Golden Lily
- O. R. Melling: The Hunter's Moon
- Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man
- Melinda Metz: Roswell High, Fingerprints
- Marissa Meyer: The Lunar Chronicles
- Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The Host , Life and Death
- Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
- Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
- Sarah Mlynowski: Bras and Broomsticks
- James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books
- Perry Moore: Hero
- Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
- Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
- Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
- Brandon Mull: Fablehaven series, Beyonders series, The Candy Shop War, The Arcade Catastrophe, Pingo
- Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
- Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches
N
- Beverley Naidoo: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, Web of Lies
- Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound, Sirena
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
- Patrick Ness: More Than This
- William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
- Susin Nielsen: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
- Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark, The Name of the Game Was Murder
- Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast Master
O
- Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
- Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles, True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles
- Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
P
- Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
- Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, The 39 Clues: Storm Warning
- Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High, Fearless series, The Ruling Class
- Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
- James Patterson: Maximum Ride series, Witch and Wizard series, Daniel X series
- Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
- Jackson Pearce: As You Wish, Sisters Red
- Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, A Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
- Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
- Mal Peet: The Penalty, Keeper, Exposure, Tamar, Life: An Exploded Diagram
- Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Define Normal
- Stefan Petrucha: TimeTripper
- Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
- K. M. Peyton: Flambards, The Right-Hand Man, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer
- Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
- James Phelan: The Last Thirteen, Alone
- Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
- Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
- Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen, Provost's Dog, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens
- Aprilynne Pike: Wings
- Christopher Pike: Chain Letter, Remember Me, Alosha
- Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring, The Perilous Gard
- Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
- Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
- Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
- Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark
- Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark Materials trilogy
R
- Bali Rai - (Un)arranged Marriage, Fire City, Killing Honour, Rani & Sukh, The Crew, The Whisper, Angel Collector, The Last Taboo, The Gun, Shivers.
- Janette Rallison: It's a Mall World After All, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
- Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
- Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
- Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
- Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress, The Wish House, The Vanished, The Cunning Man, Pirates!
- David Rees: Storm Surge, Quintin's Man, In the Tent, Risks
- Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant
- Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
- Kathryn Reiss: The Glass House People, Dreadful Sorry, PaperQuake, Blackthorn Winter
- Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, ...And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand
- Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe
- Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
- Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
- Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
- Malcolm Rose: Traces series, The Death Gene, Plague, Transplant, The Tourtured Wood
- Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
- Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was
- Veronica Rossi: Under the Never Sky , Through the Ever Night , Into the Still Blue
- Veronica Roth: Divergent trilogy
- Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl
- J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series
- Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
- Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
S
- Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
- Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
- Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle Dogs, Eyes of the Emperor
- Alex Sánchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
- Kurtis Scaletta: Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
- Ellen Schreiber: Vampire Kisses series
- Elizabeth Scott: Bloom, Perfect You, Stealing Heaven, Living Dead Girl, Something Maybe, Love You Hate You Miss You
- Kieran Scott: I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
- Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White, My Swordhand is Singing
- Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak) series, The Demonata series, The City series, The Saga of Larten Crepsley series
- Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
- Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars series, The Lying Game
- Valerie Sherrard: Sarah's Legacy, Testify, Counting Back from Nine, The Glory Wind
- Gena Showalter: Intertwined
- Mark Shulman: Scrawl, Secret Hiding Places
- Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
- Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
- Sarah Singleton: Century, Heretic, Sacrifice, The Amethyst Child, The Poison Garden
- Alan Lawrence Sitomer: The Hoopster, Hip Hop High School, Homeboyz
- William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar Pig
- Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle
- L. J. Smith: The Vampire Diaries, Night World, The Forbidden Game, The Secret Circle, Dark Visions
- Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
- Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
- Ivan Southall: Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West, the Simon Black series.
- Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
- Nicholas Sparks: The Notebook, The Last Song, Dear John, A Walk To Remember
- Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
- Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
- Nancy Springer: I Am Mordred, I Am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie, The Boy on a Black Horse
- Maggie Stiefvater: The Wolves of Mercy Falls
- R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
- Laurie Faria Stolarz: Blue is for Nightmares, Project 17
- Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
- Nova Ren Suma: The Walls Around Us
- Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord
T
- Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
- Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
- Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
- Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
- Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God, Green Thumb
- Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
- Sharon Tregenza: Tarantula Tide
- Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
U
V
- Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man, A Coming Evil, Dragon's Bait, A Well-Timed Enchantment
- Lizzie Velásquez: Be Beautiful, Be You
- Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Bad Girls
- Cecily von Ziegesar: The Gossip Girl series, The It Girl series
W
- Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
- Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, Violet in Private, Lovestruck Summer
- Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses
- James Watson: Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger, Fair Game: The Steps of Odessa; plays for schools, Banned!, Tom Paine, This Was Your Life, Gotcha!, Wars-R-Us.Co
- Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
- Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy
- Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
- Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, The Rules of Survival
- Scott Westerfeld: Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
- Elie Wiesel: Night
- Terry Lee Wilde: The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deidre's Secret
- Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
- Pam Withers: Take It to the Xtreme series, Daredevil Club, First Descent
- Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
- Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
- Christopher Wooding: Broken Sky, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief, Poison, Kerosene, End Game
- Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
- Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)
- Diana Wynne Jones: See above, Jones.
Y
- Rick Yancey: The 5th Wave
- Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
- Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
- Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
- David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
Z
- Allen Zadoff: Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
- Timothy Zahn: Dragonback series
- Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
- Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, My Darling, My Hamburger, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
- Markus Zusak: The Book Thief, The Messenger
