We’re closing out another year of fabulous YA lit, full of breakout debuts, devastating contemporary, series starters that left us breathless, mega huggable romcoms, intoxicating fantasy visions, and more more more! Here are fifty of the YA books we can’t/won’t/don’t stop talking about in 2018.
We asked 17 of our favorite YA authors to help us navigate this year’s crop of brilliant YA books. Here are just a few of their personal must-reads…
This month, you guys. THIS MONTH. Look, I try to not to make grand statements like “This is maybe the best YA publishing month of all time,” but you’ve got the returns of Anna-Marie McLemore, Nic Stone, Markus Zusak, Katherine Locke, Claire Legrand, Amy Rose Capetta, Destiny Soria, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and more, plus the very first […]
My love for the books I’ve read that release on this day is so deep, I want to get right to them. This is a beautiful day for truly nuanced queer fiction, extremely intense SFF, and the contemporary that made me cry harder than anything else I’ve read this year. So put on your seatbelt […]
Amy Rose Capetta’s lush, Italian-influenced fantasy The Brilliant Death is out today, telling the tale of a magic-wielder, or strega, who hides her powers, and the genderfluid fellow strega who helps her embrace what she is and what she can do. Teodora’s transformative ability has long allowed her to turn her family’s enemies into objects, but […]