# Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, established in 1998, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

## Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1998 | Joan Bauer | Rules of the Road | Winner |
| 1998 | Joan Abelove | Go and Come Back | Finalist |
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Finalist |
| 1998 | Michael Cadnum | In a Dark Wood | Finalist |
| 1998 | Gary Paulsen | Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard | Finalist |
| 1999 | Robert Cormier | Frenchtown Summer | Winner |
| 1999 | Walter Dean Myers | Monster | Finalist |
| 1999 | David Almond | Skellig | Finalist |
| 1999 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak | Finalist |
| 1999 | Sonya Sones | Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy | Finalist |
| 2000 | Jacqueline Woodson | Miracle's Boys | Winner |
| 2000 | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising | Finalist |
| 2000 | Adam Bagdasarian | Forgotten Fire | Finalist |
| 2000 | Carolyn Coman | Many Stones | Finalist |
| 2000 | Lori Aurelia Williams | When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune | Finalist |
| 2001 | Mildred D. Taylor | The Land | Winner |
| 2001 | A. M. Jenkins | Damage | Finalist |
| 2001 | Norma Fox Mazer | Girlhearts | Finalist |
| 2001 | Beverley Naidoo | The Other Side of Truth | Finalist |
| 2001 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Seeing Stone | Finalist |
| 2002 | M. T. Anderson | Feed | Winner |
| 2002 | E. R. Frank | America | Finalist |
| 2002 | Joyce Carol Oates | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl | Finalist |
| 2002 | Kate Banks | Dillon Dillon | Finalist |
| 2002 | Sarah Dessen | This Lullaby | Finalist |
| 2003 | Jennifer Donnelly | A Northern Light | Winner |
| 2003 | Francine Prose | After | Finalist |
| 2003 | Kevin Henkes | Olive’s Ocean | Finalist |
| 2003 | Richard Peck | The River Between Us | Finalist |
| 2003 | Martha Brooks | True Confessions of a Heartless Girl | Finalist |
| 2004 | Melvin Burgess | Doing It | Winner |
| 2004 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Finalist |
| 2004 | Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | Finalist |
| 2004 | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood | Finalist |
| 2004 | Adam Rapp | Under the Wolf, Under the Dog | Finalist |
| 2005 | Per Nilsson with Tara Chace (trans.) | You & You & You | Winner |
| 2005 | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Finalist |
| 2005 | Markus Zusak | I Am the Messenger | Finalist |
| 2005 | John Green | Looking for Alaska | Finalist |
| 2005 | Andreas Steinhöfel | The Center of the World | Finalist |
| 2006 | Coe Booth | Tyrell | Winner |
| 2006 | John Green | An Abundance of Katherines | Finalist |
| 2006 | Meg Rosoff | Just in Case | Finalist |
| 2006 | M. T. Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party | Finalist |
| 2006 | Nancy Werlin | The Rules of Survival | Finalist |
| 2007 | Philip Reeve | A Darkling Plain | Winner |
| 2007 | Kenneth Oppel | Darkwing | Finalist |
| 2007 | Sherman Alexie with art by Ellen Forney | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Finalist |
| 2007 | Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | Finalist |
| 2007 | Walter Dean Myers | What They Found: Love on 145th Street | Finalist |
| 2008 | Terry Pratchett | Nation | Winner |
| 2008 | Oscar Hijuelos | Dark Dude | Finalist |
| 2008 | Nate Powell | Swallow Me Whole | Finalist |
| 2008 | Neil Gaiman with Dave McKean and Chris Riddell (illus.) | The Graveyard Book | Finalist |
| 2008 | Candace Fleming | The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary | Finalist |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Partridge | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary | Winner |
| 2009 | Deborah Heiligman | Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith | Finalist |
| 2009 | Shaun Tan | Tales from Outer Suburbia | Finalist |
| 2009 | Frances Hardinge | The Lost Conspiracy | Finalist |
| 2009 | James Cross Giblin | The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy | Finalist |
| 2010 | Megan Whalen Turner | A Conspiracy of Kings | Winner |
| 2010 | Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos | Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science | Finalist |
| 2010 | Rick Yancey | The Curse of the Wendigo | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jonathan Stroud | The Ring of Solomon | Finalist |
| 2010 | Stephanie Hemphill | Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials | Finalist |
| 2011 | Pete Hautman | The Big Crunch | Winner |
| 2011 | Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (illus.) | A Monster Calls | Finalist |
| 2011 | Libba Bray | Beauty Queens | Finalist |
| 2011 | Mal Peet | Life: An Exploded Diagram | Finalist |
| 2011 | Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Finalist |
| 2012 | A. S. King | Ask the Passengers | Winner |
| 2012 | Matthew Quick | Boy21 | Finalist |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | Finalist |
| 2012 | Martine Leavitt | My Book of Life by Angel | Finalist |
| 2012 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Drowned Cities | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gene Yang | Boxers and Saints | Winner |
| 2013 | Rainbow Rowell | Fangirl | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jonathan Stroud | Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase | Finalist |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Knox | Mortal Fire | Finalist |
| 2013 | Joyce Sidman | What the Heart Knows: Chants | Finalist |
| 2014 | Candace Fleming | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia | Winner |
| 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | Finalist |
| 2014 | Paul Fleischman | Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines | Finalist |
| 2014 | Andrew Smith | Grasshopper Jungle | Finalist |
| 2014 | E.K. Johnston | The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim | Finalist |
| 2015 | Marilyn Nelson | My Seneca Village | Winner |
| 2015 | Don Brown | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Finalist |
| 2015 | Steve Sheinkin | Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jason Reynolds | The Boy in the Black Suit | Finalist |
| 2015 | Laura Amy Schlitz | The Hired Girl | Finalist |
| 2016 | Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Winner |
| 2016 | Meg Medina | Burn, Baby, Burn | Finalist |
| 2016 | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | March: Book Three | Finalist |
| 2016 | Socorro Acioli with Daniel Hahn (trans.) | The Head of the Saint | Finalist |
| 2016 | Julie Berry | The Passion of Dolssa | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Winner |
| 2017 | E. Lockhart | Genuine Fraud | Finalist |
| 2017 | Renée Watson | Piecing Me Together | Finalist |
| 2017 | Dashka Slater | The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | Finalist |
| 2017 | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Finalist |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | Winner |
| 2018 | M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin | The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge | Finalist |
| 2018 | Leslie Connor | The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle | Finalist |
| 2018 | Christopher Paul Curtis | The Journey of Little Charlie | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | Hey, Kiddo | Finalist |
| 2019 | Malla Nunn | When the Ground is Hard | Winner |
| 2019 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Shout | Finalist |
| 2019 | A. S. King | Dig | Finalist |
| 2019 | Thanhha Lai | Butterfly Yellow | Finalist |
| 2019 | Randy Ribay | Patron Saints of Nothing | Finalist |
| 2020 | Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi | Punching the Air | Winner |
| 2020 | Allan Wolf | The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party | Finalist |
| 2020 | Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | Finalist |
| 2020 | Karen Schneemann and Lily Williams | Go With the Flow | Finalist |
| 2020 | Tracy Deonn | Legendborn | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rita Williams-Garcia | A Sitting in St. James | Winner |
| 2021 | Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Finalist |
| 2021 | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kekla Magoon | Revolution in Our Time | Finalist |
| 2021 | Paula Yoo | From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lyn Miller-Lachmann | Torch | Winner |
| 2022 | Samira Ahmed | Hollow Fires | Finalist |
| 2022 | Sabaa Tahir | All My Rage | Finalist |
| 2022 | Andrew Joseph White | Hell Followed With Us | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kip Wilson | The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin | Finalist |
| 2023 | Amber McBride | Gone Wolf | Winner |
| 2023 | Jennifer Baker | Forgive Me Not | Finalist |
| 2023 | Olivia A. Cole | Dear Medusa | Finalist |
| 2023 | Kim Johnson | Invisible Son | Finalist |
| 2023 | Sarah Myer | Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story | Finalist |