In addition to the complete 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list, the committee selected the following titles as a top ten:
- Andrews, Jesse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Abrams/Amulet Books, 2012.
- Bray, Libba. The Diviners. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina. Random House/Random House Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- Kontis, Alethea. Enchanted. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Harcourt Children’s Books, 2012.
- Levithan, David. Every Day. Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- McCormick, Patricia. Never Fall Down. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, 2012.
- Quick, Matthew. Boy 21. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- Saenz, Benjamin. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Simon & Schuster/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys. Scholastic, 2012.
- Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity. Disney/Hyperion, 2012.