Virginia Readers Choice Award - High School

Awards List

2016

Out of The Easy
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

Eleanor & Park
(Nominee)
Rainbow Rowell

The Testing
(Nominee)
Joelle Charbonneau

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
(Nominee)
Matthew Quick

Reality Boy
(Nominee)
A.S. King

Unbreakable
(Nominee)
Kami Garcia

Fake Id
(Nominee)
Lamar Giles

We Were Liars
(Nominee)
E. Lockhart

2015

Every Day
(Winner)
David Levithan

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Nominee)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

Boy21
(Nominee)
Matthew Quick

Never Fall Down
(Nominee)
Patricia McCormick

Every Day
(Nominee)
David Levithan

The Paladin Prophecy
(Nominee)
Mark Frost

The Archived
(Nominee)
Victoria Schwab

Midwinterblood
(Nominee)
Marcus Sedgwick

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
(Nominee)
Meg Medina

2014

The Fault in Our Stars
(Winner)
John Green

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
(Nominee)
Lish McBride

Choker
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Woods

Something Like Hope
(Nominee)
Shawn Goodman

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

Anya's Ghost
(Nominee)
Vera Brosgol

This Dark Endeavor
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
(Nominee)
Laini Taylor

The Scorpio Races
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

2013

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
(Winner)
Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

Shortie Like Mine
(Nominee)
Ni-Ni Simone

Swim the Fly
(Nominee)
Don Calame

Before I Fall
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver

Ship Breaker
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Annexed
(Nominee)
Sharon Dogar

Matched
(Nominee)
Ally Condie

Trapped
(Nominee)
Michael Northrop

2012

The Knife of Never Letting Go
(Winner)
Patrick Ness

Boot Camp
(Nominee)
Todd Strasser

The Red Necklace
(Nominee)
Sally Gardner

Marcelo in the Real World
(Nominee)
Francisco X. Stork

After
(Nominee)
Amy Efaw

2011

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

Rooftop
(Nominee)
Paul Volponi

I Am Scout
(Nominee)
Charles J. Shields

Shift
(Nominee)
Jennifer Bradbury

Graceling
(Nominee)
Kristin Cashore

If I Stay
(Nominee)
Gayle Forman

2010

Unwind
(Winner)
Neal Shusterman

Thirteen Reasons Why
(Nominee)
Jay Asher

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
(Nominee)
Deb Caletti

Tamar
(Nominee)
Mal Peet

2009

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Last Knight
(Nominee)
Hilari Bell

The Arrival
(Nominee)
Shaun Tan

2008

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
(Nominee)
David Lubar

The Book Thief
(Nominee)
Markus Zusak

Inexcusable
(Nominee)
Chris Lynch

Copper Sun
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

2007

My Sister's Keeper
(Winner)
Jodi Picoult

Looking for Alaska
(Nominee)
John Green

2006

Faerie Wars
(Nominee)
Herbie Brennan

Leaving Eden
(Nominee)
Anne D. Leclaire

Seventeen
(Nominee)
Liz Rosenberg

2005

The House Next Door
(Winner)
Richie Tankersley Cusick

Meely LaBauve
(Nominee)
Ken Wells

On the Fringe
(Nominee)
Multiple Authors

2003

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
(Winner)
Louise Rennison

2001

If You Come Softly
(Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson

Roughnecks
(Nominee)
Thomas Cochran

1997

Tears of a Tiger
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

1995

Jumping the Nail
(Winner)
Eve Bunting

1992

Don't Look Behind You
(Winner)
Lois Duncan

1991

Say Goodnight, Gracie
(Winner)
Julie Reece Deaver

1989

Face at the Edge of the World
(Winner)
Eve Bunting

1987

Man in the Woods
(Winner)
Rosemary Wells

1985

The Outsiders
(Winner)
S.E. Hinton
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