First of all, this thread is amazing. Thank you everyone who has contributed to the lists (I love finding new books to read!), especially Lexa555. Two thumbs up! And big ol' a cheesy smile... 
Now, I noticed, no one has listed any Sara Zarr books! I feel they MUST be added, because she is a great author! Her books are very realistic, and the characters are very relatable; I've felt connected to each character in her books. I continued thinking about these books quite a while after finishing each one. In order of best to less best (because they're all good ) here they are!
Sweethearts (one of my absolute FAVORITE books, really sweet!)
Thank you for adding to the list and thank you so much for saying the list is awesome. I worked hard on it and with the help of many people on the boards it became the giant list you see. Since you two are new to the boards you might not know but to give someone praise for something they posted you can click on the leaf looking image underneath a person's name and it will give them a laurel. These laurels help to increase a person's status and they just symbolize a gread post. I am going to give each of you one for posting on this thread.
Welcome to the boards and thanks again for the comments and adding books!! 
Aw thank you! I have been trying to become a reader-moderator so that I can help the teen board to stay organized but when I messaged an Administrator I never heard anything back and some people on here have heard about that and started a thread for me that says Make Lexa555 a reader-moderator. Maybe you could sign your name on their petition and I will be able to help many more people on the teen board. lol and no I'm not trying to sell myself or make you do anything I'm just trying to help the board out.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Tattoo book 1
Fate book 2
Lee NIchols
Deception (Haunting Emma) This is the 1st book in the series, the next has yet to be released
Kelly Armstrong
The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1)
The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2)
The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, Book 3)
Simone Elkeles
Leaving Paradise book 1
Return to Paradise to be released September 2010
Perfect Chemistry book 1
Rules of Attraction book 2
Carolyn MacCullough
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Stephanie Klein
James Jennings
Rebecca Godfrey
Anonymous
It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary
Lauri Halse Anderson
Patricia McCormik
Cecelia Ahern
Thanks for the Memories: A Novel
I have personally read all of these books except for "Return to Paradise" (iI am very impaitently waiting for it to come out!) and I highly recommend them! I will add to this list soon, but the hour is late and work calls to me in the AM. 
(oh the joys of having a job that I can read at everyday. I'm up to 5 books a week, the librarians know me by name.)
cmathis- some of those books are already on the new list but thank you for posting them again and adding new books. All of the books on my list are links on the barnes and nobles site. Since you are a new user if you ever want to post a barnes and noble link just click the Add Product button on the toolbar and it will bring up an area where you can add a book by the link or by the link and the cover. This will make it easier then looking up the links on amazon and posting each individual link. It looks like this..
As a reminder to people posting on this list. I know that the main list on the bottom of page 5 and continuing and page 6 is rather long and you can easily lose track of what has been posted. That having been said I do encourage people to look over the list before adding books that have already been posted. Its always nice to be reminded of great books but we also want to keep it so that we are recommending as many books as possible that are not already on the list. This will cut down the clutter on this list and keep people from reading the list that I have made and duplicates that people are making. 
