I found this list at https://time.com/collection/100-best-ya-books/
If you follow the link you can find out more about each book. I give you this list to simply help you find awesome books and many of these books someone does not want you to read. They have been challenged or banned in some places.
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (great story, I read a long time ago)
*Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (I still love this series)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
*Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (a must read)
*The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding (horrifying but good)
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (OMG so much fun, I remember)
*A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Fantastical read and one i will share for generations)
I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip by John Donovan
*Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
*Forever by Judy Blume
*Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
*Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
*A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
*Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (Read this book!)
*The Giver by Lois Lowry (One I hold dear)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
*Holes by Louis Sachar
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
*Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
*Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Feed by M.T. Anderson
*Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
*Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Legend by Marie Lu
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Every Day by David Levithan
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
March: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
*The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
March: Book Two by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
*Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (one of my fave writers)
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
*Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (I highly recommend this to everyone)
The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
* means I have read it