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Word Count for Young Adult Books

The word count range for Young Adult is 55,000 to 90,000. With books like Twilight at 118,975 words and Divergent at 105,143 words, this genre has been trending higher. Here are more examples:

55,000 -
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 48,953
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 52,587
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares 60,216
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 60,438
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 62,496
70,000
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 70,544
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green 74,277
Legend by Marie Lu 75,464
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 78,179
Frostbite by Richelle Mead 78,482
80,000 +
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 87,274
Cinder by Marissa Meyer 87,661
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 99,750
Divergent by Veronica Roth 105,143
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 118,975