Book & Media Lists

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Book cover for Rez Ball by Byron Graves featuring a young person holding a basketball

2024 Morris Award Winner

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first given in 2009, honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.

This year's winner is "Rez Ball", written by Bryon Graves and published by Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

“Rez Ball impressed us with its authentic voice, well-developed characters and exciting action scenes as it explored grief, prejudice, friendships, family and community.” said Morris Award Chair Kim Keown Farnsworth.

See all the finalists

Selected Book & Media Lists

Amazing Audiobooks

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults highlights the best audiobook recordings of the past two years. Find more information, including previous lists, policies and procedures, and how to nominate a title.

Nominate a Book for Teens' Top 10

Attention Teen Readers!

Now is the time to have your voices heard. Have you come across a new book (published from August 2023 to July 2024) that's a real page-turner? One you think other teens would like it, too? Nominate that book for YALSA's Teens Top 10, where you and other teens’ voices are the only ones that matter.

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) wants you to help decide the best books of the last year. Nominate your favorite book or two or three. Nominations will close at the end of October, and nominated books will be put to a vote beginning in February.

Readers ages twelve to eighteen can nominate their favorite books here.

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Past Lists (currently inactive)

Fabulous Films for Young Adults

The purpose of this list is to identify for collection developers a body of films relating to a theme that will appeal to young adults

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The books on this list offer opportunities to discover new ideas, and provide an introduction to the fascinating variety of subjects within an academic discipline

Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

To encourage young adults to read for pleasure by presenting to them lists of popular or topical titles which are widely available in paperback and

Readers' Choice

*Beginning in February 2017, YALSA will launch the new Teen Book Finder Database, which will be a one-stop shop for finding selected lists and award

Use & Reproduction of YALSA's Awards & Lists

YALSA’s lists of recommended reading may be reproduced under "fair use" standards. As stated in Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976, factors to be considered shall include:

  1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
  2. The nature of the copyrighted work;
  3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.

More Ways to Promote Teen Reading

Additional Collection Development & Reading Resources

Find more collection development resources on our wiki.

YALSA is part of the American Library Association, which develops additional recommended reading resources of interest to library staff, educators and afterschool providers who serve teens: