Due to the continued popularity of the Young Adult fiction genre and the ever increasing availability of new titles, librarians need more guidance than ever to select the best that YA fiction has to offer. Young Adult Fiction Core Collection (6th Edition, 2025) highlights more than 3,000 essential recommended titles for young adult readers.

Young Adult Fiction Core Collection is designed to assist the busy librarian in a wide variety of ways:

1. Purchasing Guide. The Core Collection aids librarians in the selection and ordering of titles. Annotations are provided for each title along with the publisher and ISBN.
2. Readers’ Advisory Helpful information about sequels and companion volumes, descriptive and critical annotations, and the subject access in the Index make readers’ advisory work easier.
3. Cataloging & Information Support. Full bibliographical data are provided in the List of Fictional Works. Entries also include recommended subject headings, awards, publication history, and other titles in the series.
4. Curriculum Support. Subject indexing, grade levels, and annotations are helpful in identifying materials appropriate for lesson planning and classroom use.
5. Collection Maintenance. Information about titles available on a subject facilitates decisions to rebind, replace, or discard items.
6. Instructional Aid. The Core Collection is useful in courses that deal with literature and book selection for young adults.

Enhanced Features

Metadata includes precise genres, subgenres, and subject headings that consistently include both location and time period where appropriate. Books are much easier to find through the index, and the metadata associated with each record offers better insight into the contents of the book. Additionally, we have increased the number of awards and short lists; all entries for titles in series will also include the name of that series.

Detailed entries in Young Adult Fiction Literature Core Collection include:

1. Complete Bibliographic and Cataloging Data
2. Content Descriptions & Excerpts from Selected Reviews
3. Subject Headings, Price, ISBN, Grade Level Classification
4. Special features, sequels and companion volumes, awards, and publication history
5. Essential titles, our highest recommendation level in a subject area, are easily identified with a starred listing throughout the text. Stars are included in the index to make finding Essential titles by author or subject easier than ever.
6. Organized for ease of use by Author Name

Detailed Indexing

A highly detailed Author, Title, and Subject Index, provides easy navigation through the hundreds of subject areas, thousands of authors and titles, and numerous series in this informative resource. Stars that indicate an Essential title are included in the index to make it easier to locate these highly recommended titles.

Excerpted primarily from H.W. Wilson’s popular Senior High Core Collection and Middle & Junior High Core Collection, the 3,000 titles in this edition provides extensive coverage of the YA Fiction and makes easy work of locating the best-of-the-best titles to consider adding to your collection and to find titles that can be weeded out.

The Young Adult Fiction Core Collection is an essential resource for library and media specialists looking to enhance and enrich their collection with the most important and highly recommended titles currently available.