36 of Your Favorite YA Romances
This post is sponsored by South of Sunshine by Dana Elmendorf.
Kaycee Jean McCoy has lived her entire life in Sunshine, Tennessee. She knows what is—and what isn’t—expected of her. She certainly would rather let gross Dave Bradford kiss her on occasion than come out. But then Bree Dawson—beautiful, sexy, impossibly cool—moves to town, and Kaycee is swept up in a whirlwind of exciting new emotions and lets her guard down. When her best friend catches them kissing, Kaycee’s whole world goes to hell in a handbasket. What is she willing to risk for the sake of love? And for acceptance?
Young love is so fraught and we assign it so much meaning and depth and angst, it’s no wonder it’s an excellent subject for fiction. Talk about built-in drama and conflict! YA love often includes so many issues adults usually don’t have to face: will my parents forbid me from seeing this person? What do we do with the knowledge that this probably isn’t forever (and might not even be Past This Summer)? How am I going to get involved with someone while I’m busy saving the world from doom?
With this in mind, we asked you for your favorite YA romances, and here’s what you came up with! Enjoy:
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Shatter Me series by Taherah Mafi
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
The China Garden by Liz Berry
Love and Other Four Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
Anna and the French Kiss (and its follow-ups) by Stephanie Perkins
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
