2010 was a great year for YA books, but we’re REALLY excited for some of the new titles coming out in 2011. Here’s a look at this year’s most-anticipated Young Adult Books — you know, the ones that we’re ALREADY buzzing about! Where available, we’ve included book covers.
Be sure to tell us which books you’re most excited about in 2011 in the comments below!
Jan. 4
Choker by Elizabeth Woods
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Feb. 1
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Feb. 15
Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Feb. 22
Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton
Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
March 1
Blood & Flowers by Penny Blubough
Clarity by Kim Harrington
Demonglass (Hex Hall #2) by Rachel Hawkins
March 7
The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell
March 8
Afterlife (Evernight #4) by Claudia Gray
March 15
The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Midnight by L.J. Smith
Shimmer by Alyson Noel
March 22
The Dark & Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O’Roark Dowell
April 5
Plague (A GONE Novel) by Michael Grant
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4) by Cassandra Clare
Red Glove (Curse Workers #2) by Holly Black
April 19
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
April 26
Abandon by Meg Cabot
Summer & the City (A Carrie Diaries Book) by Candace Bushnell
May 3
Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready
Moonglass by Jessi Kirby
May 24
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Hourglass by Myra McIntire
May 31
The Ivy: Secrets by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
June 7
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
June 14
Passion (A Fallen Novel) by Lauren Kate
Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
June 21
A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young
June 22
Stolen Nights by Rebecca Maizel
June 28
The Day Before by Lisa Schroeder
Fins Are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
July 12
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
July 27
Wildefire by Karsten Knight
August 2
The Watchers (Delcroix Academy Book 2) by Inara Scott
August 23
Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
August 30th
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
September 27
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Summer/Fall TBA
Swear by Nina Malkin
Beautiful Creatures #3 by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Crossed (Matched #2) by Ally Condie
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (tentatively titled) by Laini Taylor
The Familiars: Secrets of the Crown by Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson
(Please remember, all release dates are tentative!)
Novel Novice 
I better start saving my pennies because I want them ALL, LOL! They all look so good!
Tell me about it … 🙂
I’m willing to share! But then I Kindle most things now.
I’m definitely most excited for Linger! July seems too far away!! I also just finished reading If I Stay and loved it, so I’m really excited to read Where She Went.
What about “Awakened”, the next House of Night novel? It comes out tomorrow and I’m really excited to read it!
I’m also looking forward to “City of Fallen Angels”. I hope things get a little easier for Clary and Jace, but that seems unlikely, doesn’t it? 😉
D’oh! I knew I’d forget something …
What about “Tempest” (Hush, Hush# 3) by Becca Fitzpatrick?
I read an ARC of Where She Went. It is spectacular!
Definitely ready for Like Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard to come out in March – it’s hard to know she’s brilliant and wait for everyone else to find out. I also cannot WAIT to read Divergent by Veronica Roth. I’ve considered selling my first born for an ARC.
I love Libba Bray! I’m excited that she’s coming out a new title! And there are so many sequels I want to read too! I just hope I have time to read everything I want to!
So many I love but I’ll post these two right now. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand & Forever by Maggie Stiefvater.
A few more you might have missed 😉 Demons Surrender, Arise, and Eona. There are many more. So many good reads I wish I read faster :).
A few more for 2011…
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld (Book #3 of the Leviathan Trilogy)
– September 11, 2011
The Death Cure by James Dashner (Book #3 of The Maze Runner Trilogy)
– October 2011
Crossed by Ally Condie
-November 1, 2011
(I saw this was alredy included, but I noticed the release date from a few different sources).
It look like 2011 is going to be a great year! Thanks for compiling this list.
Am actually looking forward to The Death Cure, just hoping he isn’t intending to make it a cliff hanger and write another books which most writers have been doing lately to their “trilogies”.
So many yummy books to look forward to!
I can’t believe no one mentioned Across the Universe! Get it on Tuesday; it’s awesome!
Also can’t wait for Crossed since I flew through Matched, and I’m sure Beauty Queens will be laugh-out-loud funny. I’ll probably think of a thousand more later because I want to read them all, but another that comes to mind is Gretchen McNeil’s Possess this fall.
Would be better if you put books that guys actually read also. All of these are books marketed toward teenage girls.
You’re right, Daniel, and we’re open to suggestions.
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wow nice list but you left some really good books out like
“Tempest” (Hush, Hush# 3) by Becca Fitzpatrick
and other books like the 4th strange angles book