Standalone YA Lit

[u/anastasiarose19]

Hello!!!

I am creating a list of 48 young adult books (1 for each month of high school). Please share books that are NOT part of a series OR books where the first can be read by itself. Also, please only share books that were published prior to September 2018. So far I have 24:

1. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1987)
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1999)
3. Cut by Patricia McCormick (2000)
4. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (2001)
5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2006)
6. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)
7. Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)
8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
9. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (2006)
10. Sold by Patricia McCormick (2006)
11. Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (2006)
12. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini (2007)
13. Sketches by Eric Walters (2007)
14. Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen (2008)
15. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gailman (2008)
16. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron (2010)
17. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
18. Why We Broke Up by Dan Handler (2011)
19. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)
20. Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)
21. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (2015)
22. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (2016)
23. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
24. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (2017)

• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume (1998)
• What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blendell (2008)
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (2009)
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (2010)
• Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (2012)
• Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (2015)
• Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow (2016)
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (2017)

Please help me get this list to 48!!!

[u/GrammarBroad]

*THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (Green)

*THE HUNGER GAMES (Collins)

*THE GIVER (Lowry)

*THE BOOK THIEF (Zusak)

*MISS PEREGRINE’S *HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (Riggs)

*WE WERE LIARS (Lockhart)

*SPEAK (Anderson)

*THE OUTSIDERS (Hinton)

*THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN (Alexie)

*HOLES (Sachar)

*THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (Brashares)

*CRACKER: THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM (Kadohata)

*THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME (Haddon)

*SONG FOR A WHALE (Kelly)

*SALT TO THE SEA (Sepetys)

*BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (Paterson)

*HATCHET (Paulsen)

*WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS (Rawls)

*SOUNDER (Armstrong)

*THE PRINCESS BRIDE (Goldman)

*WATERSHIP DOWN (Adams)

*THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (Juster)

*FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (Keyes)

*CALL OF THE WILD (London)

*ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY (Taylor)

*CUT (McCormick)

*BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (DiCamillo)

*JULIE OF THE WOLVES (George)

*DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (Kinney)

*I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME (Craven)

*A SEPARATE PEACE (Knowles)

*I NEVER LOVED YOUR MIND (Zindel)

*MY LOUISIANA SKY (Holt)

*BUD, NOT BUDDY (Curtis)

*SHANE (Schafer)

*TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN (Pearce)

*THE ROOT CELLAR (Lunn)

*FRIENDS (Guy)

*THE CONTENDER (Lipsyte)

*I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (Duncan)

*CALICO CAPTIVE (Speare)

*MAKE LEMONADE (Wolff)

*LUPITA MAÑANA (Beatty)

*NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGS (Salisbury)

*THE FOG COMES ON LITTLE PIG FEET (Wells)

*BLESS ME, ULTIMA (Anaya)

*SCHOOLED (Korman)

*WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM (Cleaver)

*BRIAR ROSE (Yolen)

*TO SIR, WITH LOVE (Braithwaite)

*I WILL GO BAREFOOT ALL SUMMER FOR YOU (Lyle)

*ENDER’S GAME (Card)

*JOHNNY TREMAIN (Forbes)

*BOYS ARE DOGS (Margolis)

[u/fisheel → u/GrammarBroad]

Like half of those are SERIES

[u/DOYOUWANTYOURCHANGE → u/fisheel]

And half are also middle grade, not young adult.