Every year the American Library Association hands out the Alex Awards for the best 10 adult books that appeal to teen audiences. While you won’t find them in the Young Adult section of the library, you will most likely find them in the regular Fiction or New Fiction sections (and in the case of Breaking Night in New Nonfiction or Biography).
They are…
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
Room: a novel by Emma Donoghue
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To: a novel by DC Pierson