Award
Lincoln Award
17 years tracked (2005–2021), 250 entries total.
The Lincoln Award is an Illinois-based literary prize that honors the author of a book chosen by high school students as the best of the year, aiming to promote reading and critical thinking among teens.
2021
2020
They Both Die at the End
Children of Blood and Bone
Dear Martin
Far from the Tree
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Long Way Down
Monday's Not Coming
Nyxia
Sadie
The Astonishing Color of After
The Female of the Species
The Poet X
The Sun Is Also a Star
Turtles All the Way Down
Words in Deep Blue
2019
The Hate U Give
A List of Cages
Beartown
Girl in Pieces
Goodbye Days
Illuminae
One of Us Is Lying
Paper Girls, Vol. 1
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Thousandth Floor
Three Dark Crowns
We Are Okay
When Dimple Met Rishi
Wolf by Wolf
2018
Six of Crows
An Ember in the Ashes
Denton Little's Deathdate
Divided We Fall
Highly Illogical Behavior
March: Book One
Nimona
Salt to the Sea
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
The Serpent King
The Wrath and the Dawn
These Shallow Graves
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
When We Collided
2017
Red Queen
A Court of Thorns and Roses
All the Bright Places
Bone Gap
Challenger Deep
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Grave Mercy
Laughing at My Nightmare
Prisoner of Night and Fog
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The Naturals
Through the Woods
2016
We Were Liars
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Between Shades of Gray
Boy Nobody
Boy21
Cruel Beauty
Fangirl
Girl in Translation
I'll Give You the Sun
If You Could Be Mine
Orphan Train
Rot & Ruin
Say What You Will
Steelheart
The Darkest Minds
The Impossible Knife of Memory
This Song Will Save Your Life
2015
Eleanor & Park
A Monster Calls
Anna Dressed in Blood
Ask the Passengers
Code Name Verity
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Out of the Easy
Seraphina
The 5th Wave
The Beginning of Everything
The Madman’s Daughter
The Raven Boys
The Selection
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
The Testing
Throne of Glass
Winger
2014
The Fault in Our Stars
Across the Universe
Ashes
Cinder
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Divergent
Every Day
Everybody Sees the Ants
Five Flavors of Dumb
Hate List
How to Save a Life
I Hunt Killers
Legend
Marcelo in the Real World
Ready Player One
Room
Shadow and Bone
The Night Circus
Wintergirls
2013
Tote Mädchen lügen nicht
Anna and the French Kiss
Bruiser
Clockwork Angel
Finnikin of the Rock
Impossible
Impulse
Leviathan
Little Brother
Lockdown
Matched
North of Beautiful
Paranormalcy
Ship Breaker
The Chosen One
The Help
The Monstrumologist
The Sky Is Everywhere
War
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
2012
The Maze Runner
After
Beastly
Before I Die
Columbine
If I Stay
Love Is the Higher Law
Reality Check
Shiver
Story of a Girl
The Compound
The Looking Glass Wars
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Why I Fight
Wish You Were Dead
2011
The Hunger Games
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Deadline
Elsewhere
Evermore
Graceling
Hold Tight
Jerk, California
Just Listen
Paper Towns
Perfect Chemistry
Right Behind You
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Three Cups of Tea
Twisted
2010
City of Bones
An Abundance of Katherines
Avalon High
Does My Head Look Big in This?
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Nineteen Minutes
Pride of Baghdad
Return to Paradise
The Book Thief
The Good Guy
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
The Luxe
2009
2008
Twilight
13 Little Blue Envelopes
A Certain Slant of Light
Bleachers
Boy Meets Boy
Heir Apparent
Pirates!
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Tell No One
The Angel Experiment
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Glass Castle
The House of the Scorpion
The Meq
Tithe
2007
Uglies
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Acceleration
Across the Nightingale Floor
All-American Girl
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jude
Shattering Glass
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Burn Journals
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2006
My Sister's Keeper
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mortal Engines
Mother, Come Home
Odd Thomas
Rainbow Boys
Stargirl
The Battle of Jericho
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
The Eyre Affair
The Kite Runner
The Truth About Forever
2005
A Child Called "It"
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Born Confused
Breathing Underwater
Bronx Masquerade
Cut
Ender's Shadow
Life of Pi
Monster
Sabriel
Speak
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Golden Compass
The Lovely Bones
The Secret Life of Bees