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.
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Atia Abawi: A Land of Permanent Goodbyes 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 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades Marguerite Abouet: Aya Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X, Clap When You Land, With the Fire on High Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven Renée Ahdieh: The Wrath & the Dawn, Flame in the Mist Melissa Albert: The Hazel Wood Becky Albertalli: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian S.K. Ali: Saints & Misfits, Love from A to Z 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 Adi Alsaid: Let's Get Lost, Never Always Sometimes Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted, Wintergirls M. T. Anderson: Feed, The Pox Party Jesse Andrews: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl V. C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic Josephine Angelini: Starcrossed trilogy 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 Kelley Armstrong: Darkest Powers Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Den of Shadows series, Kiesha'ra series Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead Nafiza Azad: The Candle and the Flame
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Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting Moa Backe Åstot: Fire from the Sky, Butterfly Heart Helen Bailey: Electra Brown series Catherine Banner: The Last Descendants series Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows Clive Barker: Abarat series Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Inheritance Games series, Debutantes series, The Fixer series, The Naturals series T. A. Barron: The Ancient One John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth Karen Bass: Graffiti Knight 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 L. Frank Baum: Aunt Jane's Nieces series Patricia Beatty: Lupita Mañana, Charley Skedaddle, Eight Mules from Monterey, Bonanza Girl, Turn Homeward, Hannalee 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 series Robin Benway: Far from the Tree Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story Julie Berry: All the Truth That's in Me Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone, Revolution 2020 Tanaz Bhathena: A Girl Like That, The Beauty of the Moment Lisa Jenn Bigelow: Hazel's Theory of Evolution Franny Billingsley: The Folk Keeper, Chime Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Modern Faerie Tales, The Folk of the Air series 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: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds, Girl on a Wire series, Lois Lane series, Match Made in Hell series Frank Bonham: Durango Street Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter Natasha Bowen: Skin of the Sea Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker Akemi Dawn Bowman: Starfish Alexandra Bracken: The Darkest Minds 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, Beauty Queens, The Diviners 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 Vera Brosgol: Anya's Ghost Roseanne A. Brown: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin N. M. Browne: Warriors of Alavna, Wolf Blood, Shadow Web Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series Elizabeth C. Bunce: A Curse Dark as Gold, Thief Errant series StarCrossed, Liar's Moon 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 Candace Bushnell: The Carrie Diaries Julie Buxbaum: Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next
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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 Kacen Callender: Felix Ever After W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog's Purpose Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game Patrick Carman: Atherton: The House of Power, Skeleton Creek, Trackers Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga Ally Carter: The Gallagher Girls, Heist Society Russell Gordon Carter: Three Points of Honor, The White Plume of Navarre, Patriot Lad series Kristin Cashore: Graceling Kiera Cass: The Selection series Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast: House of Night series Cecil Castellucci: Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, Beige, Tin Star Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure Betty Cavanna: Going On Sixteen, A Date for Diane, Stamp Twice for Murder Michael Chabon: Summerland Soman Chainani: The School for Good and Evil series Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Traci Chee: Sea of Ink and Gold, We Are Not Free Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich Cinda Williams Chima: The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms Mary H.K. Choi: Emergency Contact, Permanent Record Roshani Chokshi: The Star Touched Queen series, The Gilded Wolves series John Christopher: Prince in Waiting trilogy, Tripods trilogy Lucy Christopher: Stolen Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless Dhonielle Clayton: The Belles Rosemary Clement-Moore: Texas Gothic, The Splendor Falls, Prom Dates from Hell, Hell Week, Highway to Hell Ernest Cline: Ready Player One Robbie Coburn: The Foal in the Wire Joseph Coelho: The Girl Who Became a Tree, The Boy Lost in the Maze Rachel Cohn: Gingerbread, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares Brock Cole: The Goats Chris Colfer: Stranger Than Fanfiction Sneed B. Collard III: Double Eagle, Cartwheel Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Trilogy Ying Chang Compestine: Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party Ally Condie: Matched, Crossed, Reached Ellen Conford: Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate, 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, King of Shadows 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, Armageddon Summer, Fortune's Journey 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 Sarah Crossan: One, Apple and Rain, The Weight of Water Cath Crowley: Words in Deep Blue Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill Mike Curato: Flamer 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 Leah Cypess: Death Sworn, Mistwood
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Anita Daher: Spider's Song, Two Foot Punch, Forgetting How to Breathe Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator Maria Dahvana Headley: Magonia 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 James Dashner: The Maze Runner series Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine Pieretta Dawn: The Mermaid Apprentices, The Nymph Treasury Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills Zoey Dean: The A-List series Melissa de la Cruz: Blue Bloods Tracy Deonn: Legendborn Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever, Lock and Key Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy Graham Diamond: The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven 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 Jenny Downham: Before I Die Sharon Draper: Tears of a Tiger, The Battle of Jericho, Copper Sun, Romiette and Julio Diane Duane: Young Wizards series Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet Rosamond du Jardin: Practically Seventeen, Double Date, Wait for Marcy Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember
E Jennifer Echols: Forget You, Going Too Far, Love Story, The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer, The One That I Want, Such A Rush Sara Bergmark Elfgren: Engelsfors Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction, Chain Reaction Zetta Elliott: A Wish After Midnight, Ship of Souls, Mother of the Sea Anne Emery: Dinny Gordon series, The Popular Crowd Akwaeke Emezi: Pet Sylvia Engdahl: Enchantress from the Stars, This Star Shall Abide
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Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird Hafsah Faizal: We Hunt the Flame Sara Farizan: If You Could Be Mine Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls Tim Federle: The Great American Whatever Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic, Incarceron Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence Jasper Fforde: The Last Dragonslayer 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 Jaroslav Foglar: Přístav volá, Rychlé šípy Timothée de Fombelle: Toby Alone, Vango Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing Lani Forbes: Age of the Seventh Sun 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 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