r/YAlit · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/YAlit during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/YAlit within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

109

Books ranked

3,610

Tracked mentions in 2024

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death on live television in place of her younger sister, then spends three books resisting everyone who wants to make her a symbol.

487 in 2024

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker recruits five other criminal teenagers for a heist inside a supposedly impenetrable ice fortress.

480 in 2024

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, gets dragged into the faerie lands as payment, and spends five books choosing a court.

472 in 2024

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

A war college trains dragon riders by letting classmates kill the weak ones off, and the heroine's body was built for neither a dragon nor a sword.

306 in 2024

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

A twelve-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia finds out both are demigod traits, then gets ten days to stop a war between Greek gods he didn't know were real.

263 in 2024

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

A teenage assassin is pulled out of a slave-labor camp and entered in a kingdom's brutal death-match tournament to win her freedom.

202 in 2024

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling

An eleven-year-old orphan gets a letter, a train platform that shouldn't exist, and a scar that makes him famous for something he can't remember.

148 in 2024

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.

98 in 2024

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.

89 in 2024

#10

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Two magicians raised from childhood for a duel to the death disguise the fight as a circus that only opens after dark.

74 in 2024

#11

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

A dark-skinned war orphan tests into an elite military academy, discovers she can channel a fire god, and burns her way toward genocide.

63 in 2024

#12

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

A moneylender's daughter out-bargains a winter king to save her family, in a Rumpelstiltskin retelling with a Jewish heroine at its center.

62 in 2024

#13

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

A girl crosses into other worlds with a truth-telling compass and a soul that lives outside her body as a shape-shifting animal.

56 in 2024

#14

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.

44 in 2024

#15

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

A girl in medieval Russia keeps the household spirits fed with scraps of bread while a priest convinces her village those same spirits are demons.

42 in 2024

#16

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, exiled and overlooked, grows up shadowing Achilles and follows him to Troy already knowing how the war ends for them.

39 in 2024

#17

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

A village girl is taken by an ancient wizard as tribute every ten years, until the year his choice turns out to be a mistake he can't undo.

38 in 2024

#18

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

A caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six dangerous magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether to file the report that shuts it down.

32 in 2024

#19

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

A teenager hunts an Easter egg hidden inside a global VR world, and the hunt is built entirely from 1980s trivia.

30 in 2024

#20

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

A bridgeman slave carries spears through a warzone he's not allowed to fight in, until he decides to become the soldier no one will follow.

29 in 2024

#21

Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

An orc mercenary quits the road for good and opens a coffee shop in a city that has never seen one.

26 in 2024

#22

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

A girl in Nazi Germany steals books while Death narrates, and it's become r/suggestmeabook's default answer to almost any request for something sad.

26 in 2024

#23

The Giver

Lois Lowry

A twelve-year-old is handed every memory his community erased to stay peaceful, color, pain, and war included, and has to decide what to do with them.

23 in 2024

#24

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.

22 in 2024

#25

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

A prideful landowner insults a woman at a dance, then spends the rest of the book making it up to her.

22 in 2024