Top 10 Young Adult Biographies in 2024

The top 10 books checked out in 2024 from our young adult biography collection

Updated January 24, 2025
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1

Family style : memories of an American from Vietnam
Pham, Thien
Paper Book
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic MemoirAn NPR Best Books of 2023 A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in America, perfect for fans of American...

2

All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
Johnson, George M.
Paper Book
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America,...

3

The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible... on Schindler's list
Leyson, Leon
Audiobook
"Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief," this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler's list, "brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live" (VOYA). This, the...

4

Flying couch : a graphic memoir
Kurzweil, Amy
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 * A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil's debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a...

5

LAYERS: A MEMOIR
Bagieu, Pe?ne?lope
Paper Book
Following the Eisner-award winning Brazen, Pénélope Bagieu pens her first autobiographical work in this hilarious and bitter sweet graphic memoir. Pénélope Bagieu never thought she'd publish a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really--this...

6

Lighter than my shadow
Green, Katie, (Illustrator)
Ebook
A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse, and recovery. Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life, a set of circumstances can collide,...

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