Repeat after me: YA does not suck. You have just been reading the wrong books. The ones listed are fun, smart, funny, thought-provoking, and/or heartbreaking, and exponentially better than Twilight.

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
• Beauty Queens, Libba Bray
• The Book Thief, Marcus Zusack
• The Boyfriend List, E. Lockhart
• Bumped, Megan McCafferty
• A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb
• Crushed, Laura and Tom McNeil
• Cycler, Lauren McLaughlin
• Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
• Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
• Flygirl, Sherri L. Smith
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• Going Bovine, Libba Bray
• A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
• Honey Baby Sweetheart, Deb Caletti
• How it Ends, Laura Weiss
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• It's Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini
• Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
• My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park, Steve Kluger
• Naughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
• Paper Towns, John Green
• Saving Francesca, Melina Marchetta
• Sloppy Firsts, Megan McCafferty
• So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
• Someone Like You, Sarah Dessen
• Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
• Such a Pretty Girl, Laura Weiss
• Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
• Sweethearts, Sara Zarr
• This Lullabye, Sarah Dessen
• Tomorrow, When the War Began, John Marsden
• Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
• What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell