44 Compelling Books for Every Kind of YA Reader

These stellar works range from high-octane thrillers and charming rom-coms to stirring historical novels and sweeping romantasies.

ARNOLD, Marie. Split the Sky. Little, Brown.

ARNOT, Zanni L. A Guide to Falling Off the Map. Scholastic.

BOULLEY, Angeline. Sisters in the Wind. Holt.

CHEWINS, Hayley. I Am the Swarm. Viking.

CHUPECO, Rin. We’re Not Safe Here. Sourcebooks/Fire.

COOPER, Emily. Season of Fear. Little, Brown/Christy Ottaviano.

COTTINGHAM, Kayla. Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches. Delacorte.

CUN, Fei Wo Si. Goodbye, My Princess. S. & S.

DENNARD, Susan. The Executioners Three. Tor Teen.

DENNINGS, Hayley. Our Vicious Descent. Sourcebooks/Fire.

DEO, Jesmeen Kaur. Reasons We Break. Disney-Hyperion.

DIETRICH, Cale. My Roommate from Hell. Wednesday Bks.

DRAKE, Julia. Lovesick Falls. Little, Brown.

DREWS, C.G. Hazelthorn. Feiwel & Friends.

GILL, Nikita. Hekate: The Witch. (Goddesses of the Underworld: Bk. 1). Little, Brown.

GONG, Chloe. Coldwire. Atheneum/McElderry.

GONZALES, Sophie. Nobody in Particular. Wednesday Bks.

GOODWIN, Idris. King of the Neuro Verse. S. & S./Atheneum.

GOURLAY, Candy. Wild Song. Carolrhoda Lab.

GRAY, Jordan Stephanie. Bitten. Little, Brown.

HARLOW, Abbie. The Butterfly’s Sting. Groundwood.

HERON, Farah. Meet Me on Love Street. S. & S.

HERRMAN, Heather M. Lady or the Tiger. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen.

HOANG, Jamie Jo. My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser. Crown.

JACKSON, Tiffany D. The Scammer. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

KELLY, Anita. Donut Summer. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

KORSCH, Kate. Never Seen the Stars. Scholastic.

LA SALA, Ryan. The Dead of Summer. Scholastic/PUSH.

MCGEE, Katharine. A Queen’s Match. Random.

MCKAY, Kirsty. Seven All Alone. Sourcebooks/Fire.

NAZEMIAN, Abdi. Exquisite Things. HarperCollins.

NEWBOULD, Cassandra. Climate of Chaos. Peachtree Teen.

NIJKAMP, Marieke. After We Burned. Sourcebooks/Fire.

NOVOA, Gabe Cole. These Vengeful Gods. Random.

O’DONOGHUE, Caroline. Skipshock. Candlewick/Walker Books US.

OH, Axie. The Demon and the Light. Feiwel & Friends.

OLLESTAD, Norman & Brendan Kiely. Sole Survivor. Farrar.

PHILLIPS, Brooks Whitney. The Grove. Viking.

SILVERA, Adam. The Survivor Wants to Die at the End. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

SMITH, Cynthia Leitich, ed. Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories. HarperCollins/Heartdrum.

SMITH, Lyssa Mia. Gilded in Vengeance. Harper/Storytide.

SUTHERLAND, Joel A. The Whisperings. Tundra.

VOLBEDA, Ludwig. Self Portrait. tr. from Dutch by Lucy Scott. Levine Querido.

WORLEY, Olivia. Final Cut. Wednesday Bks.

 

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