This year’s list of nominees features 26 titles that were published between Jan. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2015. The nominees are as follows:
- Baker, Chandler. Alive. Disney/Hyperion.
- Bardugo, Leigh. Six of Crows. Macmillan/Henry Holt & Co.
- Black, Holly. The Darkest Part of the Forest. Little, Brown & Co.
- Boecker, Virginia. The Witch Hunter. Little, Brown & Co.
- Brockenbrough, Martha. The Game of Love and Death. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
- Childs, Tera Lynn, and Tracy Deebs. Powerless. Sourcebooks Fire.
- Cornwell, Betsy. Mechanica. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion Books.
- Dinnison, Kris. You and Me and Him. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion Books.
- Doktorski, Jennifer Salvato. The Summer After You and Me. Sourcebooks Fire.
- Doller, Trish. The Devil You Know. Bloomsbury.
- Heltzel, Anne. Charlie, Presumed Dead. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Kaufman, Amie, and Kristoff, Jay. Illuminae. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf.
- Laurie, Victoria. When. Disney/Hyperion.
- Matharu, Taran. The Novice: Summoner: Book One. Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends.
- Nielsen, Jennifer, A. Mark of the Thief. Scholastic/Scholastic Press.
- Niven, Jennifer. All the Bright Places. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf.
- Priest, Cherie, Illustrated by Kali Ciesemier. I Am Princess X. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine.
- Schmidt, Tiffany. Hold Me Like a Breath. Bloomsbury.
- Schreiber, Joe. Con Academy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Sedgwick, Marcus. The Ghosts of Heaven. Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press
- Simmons, Kristen. The Glass Arrow. Tor Teen.
- Stohl, Margaret. Black Widow Forever Red. Disney/Marvel Press
- Stone, Tamara Ireland. Every Last Word. Disney/Hyperion
- Westerfeld, Scott, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti. Zeroes. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse.
- Weingarten, Lynn. Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse
- Yoon, Nicola. Everything, Everything. Random House/Delacorte Press.
