Books in Junior Library Guild - Current Trends Selection
JLG is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. Selection of a children's book by the editors of the Junior Literary Guild (or latterly the Junior Library Guild) is a distinction used for publicity by publishers and authors of children's books. At present, 492 books are selected each year.
2025
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Night Owls | A.R. Vishny | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Where the Library Hides | Isabel Ibañez | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Darkly | Marisha Pessl | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Red in Tooth and Claw | Lish McBride | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Aisle Nine | Ian X. Cho | Selection | Log In To Like |
2024
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| A Place for Vanishing | Ann Fraistat | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear | Robin Wasley | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Into the Sunken City | Dinesh Thiru | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Icon and Inferno | Marie Lu | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White | Amélie Wen Zhao | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Masquerade | O.O. Sangoyomi | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Darker by Four | June C. Tan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Ruthless Vows | Rebecca Ross | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Snowglobe | Soyoung Park | Selection | Log In To Like |
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What the River Knows | Isabel Ibañez | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Medici Heist | Caitlin Schneiderhan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Lost Souls of Benzaiten | Kelly Murashige | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Summer Queen | Rochelle Hassan | Selection | Log In To Like |
2023
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Something Close to Magic | Emma Mills | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Buried and the Bound | Rochelle Hassan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Space Between Here & Now | Sarah Suk | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Bloodmarked | Tracy Deonn | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Song of Silver, Flame Like Night | Amélie Wen Zhao | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Stars and Smoke | Marie Lu | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Queens of New York | E.L. Shen | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix | Anna-Marie McLemore | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix | Cherie Dimaline | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Greymist Fair | Francesca Zappia | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Boy You Always Wanted | Michelle Quach | Selection | Log In To Like |
2022
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Within These Wicked Walls | Lauren Blackwood | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Our Crooked Hearts | Melissa Albert | Selection | Log In To Like |
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All of Us Villains | Amanda Foody | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Our Violent Ends | Chloe Gong | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Upper World | Femi Fadugba | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Murder for the Modern Girl | Kendall Kulper | Selection | Log In To Like |
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Spell Starter | Elsie Chapman | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Rule of Wolves | Leigh Bardugo | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Yesterday Is History | Kosoko Jackson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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These Violent Delights | Chloe Gong | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Witches Steeped in Gold | Ciannon Smart | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Rebel Sisters | Tochi Onyebuchi | Selection | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Caster | Elsie Chapman | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Never Tilting World | Rin Chupeco | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Light at the Bottom of the World | London Shah | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Thousand Fires | Shannon Price | Selection | Log In To Like |
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These Witches Don't Burn | Isabel Sterling | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Scavenge the Stars | Tara Sim | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Wicked Fox | Kat Cho | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Rated | Melissa Grey | Selection | Log In To Like |
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War Girls | Tochi Onyebuchi | Selection | Log In To Like |
2019
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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King of Scars | Leigh Bardugo | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Blanca & Roja | Anna-Marie McLemore | Selection | Log In To Like |
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We Set the Dark on Fire | Tehlor Kay Mejia | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Shadowglass | Rin Chupeco | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Tiger at Midnight | Swati Teerdhala | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Ruse | Cindy Pon | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Girls of Paper and Fire | Natasha Ngan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Dealing in Dreams | Lilliam Rivera | Selection | Log In To Like |
2018
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Heart of Iron | Ashley Poston | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Seafire | Natalie C. Parker | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sea Witch | Sarah Henning | Selection | Log In To Like |
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War Storm | Victoria Aveyard | Selection | Log In To Like |
| This Mortal Coil | Emily Suvada | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Blood of a Thousand Stars | Rhoda Belleza | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Blade So Black | L.L. McKinney | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Dread Nation | Justina Ireland | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Honor Among Thieves | Rachel Caine | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Batman: Nightwalker | Marie Lu | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft | Tess Sharpe | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Wildcard | Marie Lu | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Warcross | Marie Lu | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Heart Forger | Rin Chupeco | Selection | Log In To Like |
2017
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Heartless | Marissa Meyer | Selection | Log In To Like |
| Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy | Amerie | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Nemesis | Brendan Reichs | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Want | Cindy Pon | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Million Junes | Emily Henry | Selection | Log In To Like |
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What Goes Up | Katie Kennedy | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer | Leigh Bardugo | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Valiant | Lesley Livingston | Selection | Log In To Like |
| Hunted | Gloria Skurzynski | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Empress of a Thousand Skies | Rhoda Belleza | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Bone Witch | Rin Chupeco | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Swarm | Jennifer Lyle | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Hush | Skye Melki-Wegner | Selection | Log In To Like |
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King's Cage | Victoria Aveyard | Selection | Log In To Like |
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Winter Place | Alexander Yates | Selection | Log In To Like |
| The Glass Sword | Victoria Aveyard | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Zeroes | Scott Westerfeld | Selection | Log In To Like |
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As I Descended | Robin Talley | Selection | Log In To Like |
| My Lady Jane | Cynthia Hand | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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The Winner's Kiss | Marie Rutkoski | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Raven King | Maggie Stiefvater | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Gemina | Amie Kaufman | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Last Star | Rick Yancey | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Half Lost | Sally Green | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Fierce and Subtle Poison | Samantha Mabry | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Burning Midnight | Will McIntosh | Selection | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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City of Savages | Lee Kelly | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Winner's Crime | Marie Rutkoski | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Kalahari | Jessica Khoury | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Girl at the Center of the World | Austin Aslan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Calling | James Frey | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A School for Unusual Girls | Kathleen Baldwin | Selection | Log In To Like |
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I Am Princess X | Cherie Priest | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Scorpion Rules | Erin Bow | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sweet | Emmy Laybourne | Selection | Log In To Like |
| Atlantia | Ally Condie | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Half Wild | Sally Green | Selection | Log In To Like |
2014
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue | Maggie Stiefvater | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Infinite Sea | Rick Yancey | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Expiration Day | William Campbell Powell | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Silver | Chris Wooding | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Cured | Bethany Wiggins | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Untold | Sarah Rees Brennan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Unmade | Sarah Rees Brennan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Islands at the End of the World | Austin Aslan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Salvage | Alexandra Duncan | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Here and Now | Ann Brashares | Selection | Log In To Like |
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Impossibility of Tomorrow | Avery Williams | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown | Holly Black | Selection | Log In To Like |
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17 & Gone | Nova Ren Suma | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Summer Prince | Alaya Dawn Johnson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Orleans | Sherri L. Smith | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Rules | Stacey Kade | Selection | Log In To Like |
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Masque of the Red Death | Bethany Griffin | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Team Human | Justine Larbalestier | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Eve | Anna Carey | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Safekeeping | Karen Hesse | Selection | Log In To Like |
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After the Snow | S.D. Crockett | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Fateful | Claudia Gray | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Butterfly Clues | Kate Weinberg | Selection | Log In To Like |