When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysTrapped by Michael Northrop
2011 YA Contemporaries
171 books — 594 voters

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie RyanThis is Not a Test by Courtney SummersThe Walking Dead, Book One by Robert KirkmanThe Enemy by Charlie HigsonThe Dead by Charlie Higson
Zombies!
1,692 books — 4,337 voters
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
12,926 books — 8,348 voters

Suffer the Children by John SaulThe Stand by Stephen  KingSwan Song by Robert McCammonThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanThe Shining by Stephen  King
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,388 books — 1,985 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryStargirl by Jerry SpinelliThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Best Young Adult Books
13,192 books — 80,288 voters