YA Book Prize

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; 11 years ago (2014)
Website	www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-ya-book-prize

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	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar	Four Eids and a Funeral	[24]
	Moira Buffini	Songlight
	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

• Holly Bourne
• Holly Jackson
• Alex Wheatle

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