Clean Young Adult Books Really Do Exist: Our Ultimate List of Clean YA
Looking for clean YA books?
Yeah. Always. We are too.
It’s getting hard but we’re always looking for fabulous stories with characters who experience real teenage issues without feeing like we just interrupted a rather private moment or waded through pages of the more explicit offerings of the English language..
Our definition of clean young adult books:
*No swears or very sparse swearing, scattered at worst
*No sex. But making out? Very, very likely.
*Real teenage issues? Mm-hmm.
Mention of uncomfortable subjects? Yes, of course. After all, friends, this is the young adult world. What would be young adult about it if it weren’t just a bit uncomfortable?! (Insert your memories of young adult discomfort here.)
This list is far from complete. We keep reading and as we read, we find new, shiny books to feature. We’ll keep you posted.
But for now…we’d like to introduce:
EMILY AND NICOLE’S CLEAN YOUNG ADULT BOOK LIST
***
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
My Hot British Boyfriend by Kristy Boyce
Taken by Storm by Angela Morrison
The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey
Blood Numbers by C.F. Kreitzer
100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons
Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
Vivatera by Candace Thomas
Mad Wicked Folly Sharon Biggs-Waller
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer
The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry
Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brody Ashton, Jodi Meadows
The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey
Beautiful Creatures by Kamia Garcia, Margaret Stohl
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Joyride by Anna Banks
When We Collided by Emory Lord
Love and Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
All the Light We Cannot See by by Anthony Doerr
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor
Everneath by Brodi AShton
Ashes of Roses by MJ Auch
Matched by Ally Condie
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Transparent by Natalie Whipple
Annexed by Sharon Dogar, Joe Barrett
Everlasting by Angie Frazier
The Selection by Kiera Cass
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
