The most popular teenage protagonist books

These books have a teenager at the center. Everything is happening for the first time, and the stakes feel enormous because they are. Young adult fiction lives here, alongside adult novels that remember what those years were like.

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The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

2008 · 2025 edition

384 pages

Twilight
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Twilight

Stephenie Meyer

2005 · 2022 edition

416 pages

Divergent
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Divergent

Veronica Roth

2011 · 2026 edition

512 pages

Catching Fire
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Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

1983 · 2025 edition

391 pages

Mockingjay
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Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

2010 · 2025 edition

400 pages

The Alchemist
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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

1988 · 2025 edition

208 pages

Evermore
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Evermore

Alyson Noël

Published 2009

301 pages

Crave
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Crave

Tracy Wolff

2020 · 2023 edition

592 pages

Wicked Lovely
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr

2007 · 2025 edition

336 pages

Glass Houses
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Glass Houses

Rachel Caine

2006 · 2011 edition

361 pages

Fever
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Fever

Lauren DeStefano

2012 · 2013 edition

341 pages

María
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María

Jorge Isaacs

1879 · 2026 edition

330 pages