NYT Young Adult
Bestseller List for August 23, 2015
PAPER TOWNS
John Green
Penguin Group
9780142414934
0-14-241493-X
After a night of mischief, the girl Quentin loves disappears.
LOOKING FOR ALASKA
John Green
Penguin Group
9780142402511
0-14-240251-6
A boy finds excitement when he meets a girl named Alaska.
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
Jesse Andrews
Abrams Books
9781419719608
A high school senior befriends a girl with cancer.
THE BOOK THIEF
Markus Zusak
Knopf Doubleday Publishing
9780375842207
0-375-84220-9
A girl copes with life under the Nazis by stealing books.
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Ransom Riggs and Cassandra Jean
Quirk Books
9781594746031
1-59474-603-6
An island, an abandoned orphanage and a collection of curious photographs.
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
John Green
Penguin Group
9781101569184
A girl faces new realities when she learns she has cancer.
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
Sherman Alexie.
Little, Brown & Company
9780316013697
0-316-01369-2
A boy leaves his reservation to attend an all-white school.
AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES
John Green
Penguin Group
9780142410707
0-14-241070-5
Colin Singleton wants to break the pattern of being dumped.
ELEANOR AND PARK
Rainbow Rowell
St. Martin's Press
9781250012579
1-250-01257-0
The world opposes the love of two outcast teenagers.
THIRTEEN REASONS WHY
Jay Asher
Penguin Group
9781595141880
1-59514-188-X
Before she commits suicide, a girl sends recordings to 13 people.
THE 5TH WAVE
Rick Yancey
Penguin Group
9780142425831
0-14-242583-4
Aliens land on earth and the apocalypse begins.
HOLLOW CITY
Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books
9781594747359
1-59474-735-0
In 1940 London, Jacob Portman and his friends try to find a cure for their headmistress.
WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON
John Green and David Levithan
Penguin Group
9780142418475
0-14-241847-1
Two boys with the same name join forces in a reality possible only in musical theater.
IF I STAY
Gayle Forman
Penguin Group
9780142415436
0-14-241543-X
A young cellist falls into a coma.
RED QUEEN
Victoria Aveyard
HarperCollins Publishers
9780062310637
0-06-231063-1
A girl with a special power lives in a kingdom divided between an underclass with red blood and an elite with silver.