Eight of the best chosen one YA fantasy books

Leah Rachel von Essen is an editor, writer, and book reviewer. She is a copyeditor and fact-checker at Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as a contributing editor, Adult Books, for American Library Association’s magazine Booklist. She writes regularly for Chicago Review of Books and is a senior contributor at Book Riot.

At Book Riot she tagged eight "chosen one YA novels [that] paint fantastic and compelling worlds for our protagonists to work their way through on their hero journeys." One title on the list:

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Bree just wants to get away from home when she goes to UNC for a pre-college program. But when she runs into a secret society of students reportedly descended from the Round Table knights themselves, she’s thrown into a world of magic, demons, and the battles between good and evil. Meanwhile, an ex-member wants her help to investigate the group. Naturally, nothing is quite as it seems, and Bree is forced to try and decide whether to believe the Legendborn or make her own calls about what feels right.

Read about the other titles on the list.

Legendborn is among Renée Ahdieh's five top SFF books set in the American South.

--Marshal Zeringue