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Teens' Top Ten 2022

Each year, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has teens around the country vote on their favorite books to compile the year's Teens' Top Ten list. Here are this year's choices!

10 truths and a dare
10 truths and a dare
by Ashley Elston

A companion to 10 Blind Dates finds a salutatorian on the brink of starting college sidelined by a graduation volunteer requirement that she attempts to hide from her interfering mother. 
Ace of spades
Ace of spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

A contemporary thriller by a debut author follows two Niveus Private Academy students who, selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, are pitted against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets. 
All of us villains
All of us villains
by Amanda Foody

When a tell-all book exposes a fight to the death to control a secret wellspring of high magick, seven new champions are armed with new information that gives them the choice to accept their fate or rewrite their legacy. 
All these bodies
All these bodies
by Kendare Blake

When the suspect in a grisly string of murders refuses to talk to anyone but him, aspiring journalist Michael Jensen, the son of the town sheriff, must learn to separate fact from fiction to discover the truth. 
Concrete rose
Concrete rose
by Angie Thomas

A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give. 
The Hawthorne legacy
The Hawthorne legacy
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game.
Here's to us
Here's to us
by Becky Albertalli

When Ben and Arthur, two very different boys—and ex-boyfriends who are stuck in the past—keep running into each other in the present, they wonder if fate is giving them a second chance at love. 
The Ivies
The Ivies
by Alexa Donne

The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, have a showdown after Olivia gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.
Rule of wolves
Rule of wolves
by Leigh Bardugo

As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
We can't keep meeting like this
We can't keep meeting like this
by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Wedding harpist Quinn and cater-waiter Tarek develop feelings for each other, but while Tarek is a hopeless romantic, Quinn is not sure she believes in love, especially since the same boy she might be falling for spurned her the previous summer.