15 New Young Adult Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
15 New Young Adult Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
Are you on another one of your “I should really read more” kicks? Well, let’s actually act on it instead of tweeting “I need book recs” before you end up just watching another season of Love Island on Hulu. TBH, your best bet is to pick up a young adult book as soon as physically possible. Here are some of the best YA books that have been published this year. They’re so good, they’ll certainly send you into a reading marathon.
1) Ninth House , by Leigh Bardugo
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$14.99
How does one get into an Ivy League school without slaying the SAT or dabbling in some suspicious activity à la Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin? Uh, perhaps by tampering with the occult? Galaxy “Alex” Stern gets a full ride to Yale after surviving a multiple homicide. In return, she has to keep tabs on the school’s creepiest secret societies.
2) Permanent Record , by Mary H. K. Choi
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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$13.29
A child star turned international pop sensation falls in love with a regular-schmegular college dropout in a bodega at 5 a.m. It’s pretty much the exact scenario you’ve dreamt up every time you run down to the corner store for a late-night snack.
3) Girls With Sharp Sticks , by Suzanne Young
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$12.91
You know those books you finish and then are like, “Cool, now what do I do with my life?” This is one of them. I don’t want to give too much away, but spoiler alert: This elite “finishing school” for girls is not what it seems.
4) 'Internment' by Samira Ahmed
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$12.32
Given, ahem, certain events going on in the country, Internment is an absolute must-read. Set in a not-so-distant future that will hopefully NEVER happen, a teenager named Layla Amin starts a mini-revolution after she and her family are forced into a internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
5) 'What We Buried" by Kate A. Boorman
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$11.93
In this psychological thriller, former pageant-queen-turned-reality-star Liv's parents disappear on the same day as her emancipation hearing. She heads on what she assumes will be a simple road trip to find them with her brother Jory. Although the siblings hate one another, they end up with no choice but to work together when they end up on insane life-or-death journey to figure out WTF happened.
6) 'Lovely War' by Julie Berry
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$12.86
Lovely War follows four regular mortals in their quests for love throughout World Wars I and II. It's also a story told by the goddess Aphrodite, which is extremely badass. Also pretty BA? Aphrodite basically just runs everything in their lives because she's the goddess of love.
7) 'Nick and June Were Here' by Shalanda Stanley
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$9.89
Nick and June are best friends who run away from home. The kicker? June's dealing with a recent schizophrenia diagnosis and Nick's on the brink of ending up in prison because he steals cars to support his art career. Cue literally every feeling you've ever felt.
8) 'Shout' by Laurie Halse Anderseon
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$12.59
20 years after releasing Speak, the YA novel about a teen who speaks out against sexual assault, bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is back with a new poetic memoir. Shout is filled with personal stories, love for the #MeToo and #TimesUp activists and inspiring rants criticizing society.
9) 'Death Prefers Blondes' by Caleb Roehrig
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$12.32
Margo Manning is a cute blonde heiress who spends her days doing... heiress-y things in California. At night, she's a burglar with four drag queens. NEED I SAY ANYTHING MORE?
10) 'Hot Dog Girl' by Jennifer Dugan
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$12.32
No matter how old you are, or what you do for work, it can be really effing hard to get your crush to fall for you. In Hot Dog Girl, Eloise Parker's literal job is to dress up as a dancing hot dog, which like, would totally be hilarious for Snapchat purposes, but poses as an issue because she's falling for her dreamy coworker, Nick.
11) 'Somewhere Only We Know' by Maurene Goo
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$12.32
If you're looking for a read that's juicy and hilarious, Somewhere Only We Know is perfect. A K-pop star named Lucky falls in love with a tabloid reporter over a hamburger and it is EVERYTHING.
12) 'The Things She's Seen' by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
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$10.03
Hmm a creepy ghost thriller about the mysterious deaths in a small Australian town? Yep, sign me up.
13) 'These Witches Don't Burn' by Isabel Sterling
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$12.77
These Witches Don't Burn is basically like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but way, WAY more dramatic. Hannah is a witch living in Salem, Mass., who is trying to steer clear of her ex-girlfriend (who is also a witch) and fight off a deadly witch without being caught doing magic by anyone without powers. Sounds exhausting, TBH.
14) 'The Art of Losing' by Lizzy Mason
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$10.50
Harley Langston walks in on her little sister, Audrey hooking up with her boyfriend, Mike at a party. Later that night, drunk Mike gives Audrey a ride home, but crashes, and she slips into a coma. The Art of Losing deals with the complicated emotions tied to addiction, loss and love that arise as a result.
15) 'We Set the Dark on Fire' by Tehlor Kay Mejia
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$10.99
If you're a fan of The Handmaid's Tale, you'll love We Set the Dark on Fire. Daniela Vargas is the top student at the Medio School for Girls, an academy where young women prepare to either run a household or raise children for an assigned husband. Except, she's totally hiding the fact that she's a spy for the resistance. Casual!
Whether you’re into pop stars or the occult.