Best Young Adult Books from Suriname

Young adult fiction addresses readers in the decade or so between childhood and adulthood — a time of identity formation, first love, social pressure, and the dawning awareness that the world is both larger and more unjust than anyone told you. Suriname has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in young adult, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best young adult from Suriname by editorial consensus.