Verse Novels


The Poet X
Long Way Down
The Crossover
Clap When You Land
Inside Out & Back Again
Brown Girl Dreaming
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
Crank (Crank, #1)
Out of the Dust
Punching the Air
Other Words for Home
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
The Black Flamingo
One
The Weight of Water
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis PinkneyThe Little Wave by Pip HarryEnemies in the Orchard by Dana VanderLugtThe House at the Edge of the World by Nadine Aisha JassatThe Waters and the Wild by Eilish Fisher
Verse Novels for Children (MG)
83 books — 1 voter
Forget Me Not by Ellie TerryInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonOut of the Dust by Karen HesseThe Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Best MG Novels in Verse
123 books — 110 voters

Crank by Ellen HopkinsWhat My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya SonesI Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa SchroederChasing Brooklyn by Lisa SchroederBurned by Ellen Hopkins
Best YA Novels in Verse
94 books — 51 voters

The Golden Gate by Vikram SethAurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHere Is the Beehive by Sarah CrossanStained With the Colours of Sunday Morning by Rayanne HainesThe Set-Up by Joseph Moncure March
Adult Verse Novels
34 books — 5 voters

Stasia Ward Kehoe
There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy Miles Davis. He made this famous album in 1959 called Kind of Blue which is kind of, always, how I feel. That album gets into your bones goes and goes starts, hesitates, reaches out, feels for the music, the sound, the thing you want to change. Always grasping for the unattainable makes you kind of excited, kind of sorry. ...more
Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

Elayna Mae Darcy
Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.
Elayna Mae Darcy, Still the Stars

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