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Top Teen Checkouts of 2024

When it comes to teen books, modern classics topped the charts this year, but a few newcomers won your hearts.

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  • In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2008. — Fiction Collins
  • The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016. — YA F HIN
  • It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen…
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2020. — Fiction Collins
  • Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009. — T FIC HAN
  • By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2009. — Fiction Collins
  • Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010. — Fiction Han
  • Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, 2020. — Fiction Jackson
  • Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge. . . and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2010. — T FICTION COLLINS SUZANNE
  • A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016] — Teen Shusterman
  • After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — Fiction Ross
  • She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting. He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these…
    BookLondon : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2023] — Fiction Roberts
  • In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit…
    BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2011 — Fiction Roth
  • The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011. — Fiction Han
  • Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she…
    BookNew York : Delacorte, [2021] — YA Mystery Jackson
  • Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — Fiction Black
  • In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility,…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — Fiction Aveyard
  • Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who has lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — TEEN FANTASY Ros
  • If he had been with me, everything would have been different… Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, 2013. — T Fiction Now
  • Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — Fiction Barnes
  • Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — YADULT FICTION JAC