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.
As of 2022, the prize is presented at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Judges have included past winners Patrice Lawrence and Alice Oseman.
Recipients 2010s Year Author Work Ref 2015 Louise O'Neill Only Ever Yours David Almond A Song for Ella Grey 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 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 Sara Barnard Beautiful Broken Things 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 Emily Barr The One Memory of Flora Banks 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 Juno Dawson Clean 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 Dean Atta The Black Flamingo 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 Darren Charlton Wranglestone 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 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Ace of Spades 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 Catherine Doyle, Katherine Webber Twin Crowns 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 Benjamin Dean How to Die Famous 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 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 2026 Josh Silver Traumaland Bea Fitzgerald A Beautiful Evil Ravena Guron Mondays Are Murder Lauryn Hamilton Murray Heir of Storms Anika Hussain Heartbreaker William Hussey The Boy I Love Caroline O'Donoghue Shipshock Elgan Rhys (tr Mared Roberts) The Five Laura Steven Our Infinite Fates Harry Trevaldwyn The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King
Special achievement award A Change is Gonna Come anthology (2018) Malorie Blackman (2021)
Repeat nominees
Multiple nods 4 nominations Holly Bourne Holly Jackson Alex Wheatle
3 nominations Sarah Crossan Juno Dawson Bea Fitzgerald Danielle Jawando Patrice Lawrence Louise O'Neill Melinda Salisbury Laura Steven
2 nominations
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