"Annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic LGBQTIA+ content." Scroll down the list for YA award winners. Links on the page connect to past winners and related book lists.

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.

Listed yearly with an award for YA Lit

Book blogger awards

The Margaret A. Edwards Award, sponsored by School Library Journal, honors an author and specific works by that author for significant and lasting contribution for writing to teens.

For children's and YA books that promote peace and social justice.

A range of literary awards including one for children/YA lit

Includes YA book award

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, honors the best book by a previously unpublished author writing for teens.

The Odyssey Award honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults.

The Michael L. Printz Award, sponsored by Booklist, honors the best book written for teens each year.

Named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library, this award is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

The Stonewall Book Awards are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.

The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award honors the best nonfiction written for teens each year.

A 2020 article from Publisher's Weekly