YA Book Prize
Award
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The YA Book Prize is a British literary award established by publishing magazine The Bookseller in 2014. The accolade is given to young adult novels published by an author in the United Kingdom or Ireland in the previous year.
| YA Book Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | young adult novels |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | The Bookseller |
| First award | 2014 |
| Website | www |
As of 2022, the prize is presented at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.[1][2] Judges have included past winners Patrice Lawrence[3] and Alice Oseman.[4]
Recipients
2010s
| Year | Author | Work | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | |||
| Louise O'Neill | Only Ever Yours | [5][6] | |
| David Almond | A Song for Ella Grey | [5][6] | |
| Keren David | Salvage | ||
| Juno Dawson | Say Her Name | ||
| Tom Ellison, Lucy Ivison | Lobster | ||
| Sally Green | Half Bad | ||
| Kim Hood | Finding a Voice | ||
| Dawn O'Porter | Goose | ||
| Non Pratt | Trouble | ||
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Ghosts of Heaven | ||
| 2016 | |||
| Sarah Crossan | One | [7][8] | |
| Holly Bourne | Am I Normal Yet? | ||
| Jenny Downham | Unbecoming | ||
| Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | ||
| Catherine Johnson | The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo | ||
| Patrick Ness | The Rest of Us Just Live Here | ||
| Louise O'Neill | Asking for It | ||
| Melinda Salisbury | The Sin Eater's Daughter | ||
| William Sutcliffe | Concentr8 | ||
| Lisa Williamson | The Art of Being Normal | ||
| 2017 | |||
| Patrice Lawrence | Orangeboy | [9][10] | |
| Sara Barnard | Beautiful Broken Things | [9][10] | |
| Malorie Blackman | Chasing the Stars | ||
| Laure Eve | The Graces | ||
| Clare Furniss | How Not to Disappear | ||
| Lisa Heathfield | Paper Butterflies | ||
| Peadar Ó Guilín | The Call | ||
| Francesca Simon | The Monstrous Child | ||
| Martin Stewart | Riverkeep | ||
| Alex Wheatle | Crongton Knights | ||
| 2018 | |||
| Will Hill | After the Fire | [11] | |
| Emily Barr | The One Memory of Flora Banks | [11] | |
| M. A. Bennett | S.T.A.G.S | ||
| Holly Bourne | It Only Happens in the Movies | ||
| Sarah Crossan | Moonrise | ||
| Patrice Lawrence | Indigo Donut | ||
| Patrick Ness | Release | ||
| Sally Nicholls | Things a Bright Girl Can Do | ||
| Philip Pullman | La Belle Sauvage | ||
| Alex Wheatle | Straight Outta Crongton | ||
| 2019 | |||
| Sara Barnard | Goodbye, Perfect | [12][13] | |
| Juno Dawson | Clean | [12][13] | |
| Laura Dockrill | Big Bones | ||
| Muhammad Khan | I Am Thunder | ||
| Louise O'Neill | The Surface Breaks | ||
| Alice Oseman | I Was Born for This | ||
| Tom Pollock | White Rabbit, Red Wolf | ||
| Fiona Shaw | Outwalkers | ||
| Katherine Webber | Only Love Can Break Your Heart | ||
| Laura Wood | A Sky Painted Gold | ||
2020s
| Year | Author | Work | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Juno Dawson | Meat Market | [14][15] | |
| Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | [14][15] | |
| Malorie Blackman | Crossfire | ||
| Holly Bourne | The Places I've Cried in Public | ||
| Jenny Downham | Furious Thing | ||
| Frances Hardinge | Deeplight | ||
| Holly Jackson | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | ||
| Lauren James | The Quiet at the End of the World | ||
| Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Deathless Girls | ||
| William Sutcliffe | The Gifted, the Talented and Me | ||
| 2021 | |||
| Alice Oseman | Loveless | [16][17] | |
| Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | [16][17] | |
| Holly Jackson | Good Girl, Bad Blood | ||
| Danielle Jawando | And the Stars Were Burning Brightly | ||
| Patrice Lawrence | Eight Pieces of Silva | ||
| Meg Rosoff | The Great Godden | ||
| Bethany Rutter | Melt My Heart | ||
| Melinda Salisbury | Hold Back the Tide | ||
| Alex Wheatle | Cane Warriors | ||
| Laura Wood | A Snowfall of Silver | ||
| 2022 | |||
| Adiba Jaigirdar | Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | [18][19] | |
| Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Ace of Spades | [18][19] | |
| Holly Bourne | The Yearbook | ||
| Tanya Byrne | Afterlove | ||
| Femi Fadugba | The Upper World | ||
| Simon James Green | You're the One That I Want | ||
| Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | ||
| Krystal Sutherland | House of Hollow | ||
| Lisa Williamson | First Day of My Life | ||
| 2023 | |||
| Danielle Jawando | When Our Worlds Collided | [20][21] | |
| Catherine Doyle, Katherine Webber | Twin Crowns | [20][21] | |
| Louise Finch | The Eternal Return of Clara Hart | ||
| Holly Jackson | Five Survive | ||
| Becky Jerams, Ellie Wyatt | The Songs You've Never Heard | ||
| Nadia Mikail | The Cats We Meet Along the Way | ||
| Melinda Salisbury | Her Dark Wings | ||
| Cynthia So | If You Still Recognise Me | ||
| Laura Steven | The Society for Soulless Girls | ||
| Alex Wheatle | Kemosha of the Caribbean | ||
| 2024 | |||
| Lex Croucher | Gwen & Art Are Not in Love | [22][23] | |
| Benjamin Dean | How to Die Famous | [22][23] | |
| Bea Fitzgerald | Girl, Goddess, Queen | ||
| Ravena Guron | This Book Kills | ||
| Anika Hussain | This Is How You Fall in Love | ||
| Jenny Ireland | The First Move | ||
| Josh Silver | HappyHead | ||
| Laura Steven | Every Exquisite Thing | ||
| Kate Weston | Murder on a School Night | ||
| 2025 | |||
| Moira Buffini | Songlight | ||
| Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar | Four Eids and a Funeral | [24] | |
| Sarah Crossan | Where the Heart Should Be | ||
| Catherine Doyle | The Dagger and the Flame | ||
| Leon Egan | Lover Birds | ||
| Bea Fitzgerald | The End Crowns All | ||
| Holly Jackson | The Reappearance of Rachel Price | ||
| Danielle Jawando | If My Words Had Wings | ||
| Margaret McDonald | Glasgow Boys | ||
| O R Sorrel | Apocalypse Cow | ||
Special achievement award
- Malorie Blackman (2021)[25]
Repeat nominees
Multiple nods
4 nominations
3 nominations
- Sarah Crossan
- Juno Dawson
- Danielle Jawando
- Patrice Lawrence
- Louise O'Neill
- Melinda Salisbury
2 nominations
- Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Sara Barnard
- Malorie Blackman
- Jenny Downham
- Bea Fitzgerald
- Frances Hardinge
- Adiba Jaigirdar
- Patrick Ness
- Alice Oseman
- Laura Steven
- William Sutcliffe
- Katherine Webber
- Lisa Williamson
- Laura Wood