Best New Young Adult Books

They will absolutely fall for these best new young adult books of the year.

Have a teenager who absolutely loves to read?

Or trying to find just the right book for your teen to connect with?

There are some amazing gems that came out this year!

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Best New Young Adult Books

I recently joined Book of the Month Club and was sent The Sun is Also a Star.

Even though it may be marked as a “young adult” book, I absolutely loved it!

I tore through it during our Spring Break it was soooooo good.

So even those these are the best new young adult books, even grown-ups can read these wonderful books.

 New Books for High School Readers

The Sun Is Also a Star (Yoon, Nicola)

A New York Times Notable Book.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other!

Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass)

Kingdoms collide in Sarah J. Maas’ epic fifth installment in the New York Times best-selling Throne of Glass series.

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don’t.

Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow’s debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from. 

A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. 

Scythe (Arc of a Scythe)

Printz Honor Book.

Two teens must learn the “art of killing, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.

Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award-winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes)

Set in a rich, high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome, Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes told the story of Laia, a slave fighting for her family, and Elias, a young soldier fighting for his freedom.
 
Now, in A Torch Against the Night, Elias and Laia are running for their lives.

Salt to the Sea

For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war’s most devastating – yet unknown – tragedies.

World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. 

Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives.

Heartless

Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.

In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

The Singing Bones

Wicked stepmothers, traitorous brothers, cunning foxes, lonely princesses: There is no mistaking the world of the Brothers Grimm and the beloved fairy tales that have captured generations of readers.

Now internationally acclaimed artist Shaun Tan shows us the beautiful, terrifying, amusing, and downright peculiar heart of these tales as never before seen.

Kids of Appetite

The critically acclaimed author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this New York Times bestselling tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss. 

Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell. It begins with the death of Vic’s father. It ends with the murder of Mad’s uncle.

The Hackensack Police Department would very much like to hear it. But in order to tell their story, Vic and Mad must focus on all the chapters in between.

Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices)

The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.

It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion.

Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

The Serpent King

The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves — and each other — while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town behind.

Perfect for fans of John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down.

This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity)

In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic.

Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side—including the monsters within.

If I Was Your Girl

The award-winning, big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are, and a love story you can’t help but root for.

Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone.

When she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life.

The Rose & the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn)

The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn.

While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn’t yet understand, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her.

With the help of a tattered old carpet and a tempestuous but sage young man, Shahrzad will attempt to break the curse and reunite with her one true love.

Tell Me Three Things

With the perfect mix of comedy and tragedy, love and loss, and pain and elation, the characters in Julie Buxbaum’s Tell Me Three Things come to feel like old friends who make any day better.

This YA novel is sure to appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart. 

All We Have Left

Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.

Burn Baby Burn

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina’s riveting coming-of-age novel.

Award-winning author Meg Medina transports us to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high, to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit – and the hardest to accept.

Lucky Strikes

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister ― and of the family gas station.

Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly.

To keep him at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father ― and fast.

So when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she hold off the hounds till she comes of age?

The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love

John Hughes meets Comic Con in this novel about a teenager who is trying to get his best friend to fall in love with him.

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