The American Library Association's (ALA's) Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced the selected fiction and non-fiction works for its 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.

Designed to aid Young Adult librarians with graphic novel collections, the list presents graphic novels published in the past 16 months, selected for proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of teens.

The 53 selections for the 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens features several of the comic industry’s best and brightest, including Dark Horse Comics’ Umbrella Academy Apocalypse Suite TP (ISBN: 9781593079789), DC Comics/Vertigo’s Cairo HC (ISBN: 9781401211400), Image Comics’ Astounding Wolf-Man TP Vol 1 (ISBN: 9781582408620), Marvel Comics’ Dark Tower: the Gunslinger Born (ISBN: 9780785121442) and Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (ISBN: 9780785127093) and Go Comi’s Japan Ai: a Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan (ISBN: 9781933617831). To view the complete list, click here.

YALSA also announced 2009’s Best Books for Young Adults, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, all three of which featured a number of graphic novels among their offerings.

Best Books for Young Adults is a general list of significant books with proven or potential appeal for young adult readers. Graphic Novels that made the list for 2009 include Groundwood Books’ Skim (ISBN: 9780888997531), Drawn & Quarterly’s What It Is (9781897299357), Hyperion’s Thoreau at Walden (9781423100386) and more. The complete list is available here.

Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults showcases popular and topical paperbacks that make great pleasure-reading for young adults. This year’s titles focus on themes of death, fame, journies and spies,  and include such titles as Go Comi’s Train + Train vol. 1 (ISBN: 9781933617183); Viz’s Bleach vol. 1 (ISBN: 9781591164418), DC Comics’ Emiko Superstar (ISBN: 9781401215361), Yen Press’ Chocolat vol. 1 (ISBN: 9788952744531) and more. The complete list is available here.

Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers highlights books that will appeal to teens age 12-18 who normally avoid reading. Graphic Novels are often a successful choice for reluctant readers and this year’s list features a fair few, including First Second’s Kaput and Zosky (ISBN: 9781596431324) and Life Sucks (ISBN: 9781596431072), DC Comics/Vertigo’s Sentences: the Life of M.F. Grimm (ISBN: 978141210465); Japanime Co.’s Manga Cookbook (ISBN: 9784921205072); Oni Press’ Black Metal (ISBN: 9781932664720) and others. The complete list is available here.

YALSA’s Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens: