Young Adult

Play the Game and Win the War in Ava Reid’s Latest Dystopian Tale

What would the world look like if the Cold War still raged on? Winterveil by bestselling author Ava Reid (A Study in Drowning, Fable for the End of the World) dives headfirst into that dystopian future, inviting us into the lives of four students/inmates at Valeran Academy, an academy where…

Kiersten BjorkSeptember 16, 2026

Fiction Young Adult

“The Weight of One Pomegranate” Explores Grief and Moving Forward

The Weight of One Pomegranate is the second YA novel, also highly recommended for adult readers, of notable author Brynne Rebele-Henry, Fulbright scholar and graduate student at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. While savoring the precise fine prose, you might linger to re-read certain…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 16, 2026

Listicles Miscellany Popular Young Adult

Not Your Average Fairy Tale: 5 Inventive & Enchanting YA Fantasy Novels

Looking for a read that feels like it’s straight out of a book of Grimm’s fairy tales? You’ve come to the right place to build up your YA fantasy TBR pile. Here are five fresh fairy tales for the young adult audience, each as inventive and unique as the next.…

Cameron KimballAugust 27, 2026

Fiction Young Adult

Journey to the Edge of the World in “Monster, Monarch, Maiden”

Award-winning author Rae Carson returns with a gorgeous stand-alone fantasy novel brimming with magic and adventure. Bria Angarsold has faced the worst—a raid on her home, an attack on her family, and the deaths of her loved ones. A mountain girl with a magical gift for ice and making things…

Kiersten BjorkAugust 25, 2026

Fiction Recommended

Where Grief Opens a Door

Donald Samson opens The Yonder with Coleridge's meditation on a dream so vivid its flower survives into waking life, and from that first page the book asks the same question of its reader: what would you risk to bring something real back from somewhere impossible? The premise is deceptively simple.…

BookTribAugust 20, 2026

Fiction Romance Young Adult

Celeste Dador’s Summer Romance Wrapped in Stars and Stripes

Stars, Stripes and Summer Nights is a wholesome and young adult romance novel by Celeste Dador.

Natalia KavaleMay 29, 2026

Giveaways Young Adult

Time Travel and Romance Collide in Alexandra Bracken’s ‘Passenger’ Series

Bracken Ever since I read Caroline B. Cooney’s Both Sides of Time as a preteen, I’ve been hooked on time travel stories. Over the years, I’ve devoured any time travel book that I can, especially ones involving romances that exist out of space and time. And there have been a…

Rachel CarterJanuary 5, 2017

Listicles Young Adult

Training for the Patriot Games? 7 YA Dystopian Novels Where Athleticism Becomes Power

When President Donald Trump announced the “Patriot Games,” an athletic competition bringing one young man and one young woman from every state and territory to Washington, D.C., a lot of people felt a strange kind of déjà vu. Not concern, exactly. More like recognition. YA dystopian fiction has been exploring…

Monique SnymanJanuary 26, 2026

Young Adult

Enter the Magic of Roshani Chokshi’s Latest YA, “The Swan’s Daughter”

New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi (The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, Aru Shah and The End of Time) makes her highly anticipated return to YA this year with The Swan’s Daughter, an endearing tale set within a fairytale world packed with magic and mayhem. A Fairytale Curse with…

Kiersten BjorkJanuary 6, 2026

Miscellany Young Adult

Is Chat-Fiction the Next Big Thing in Publishing?

If you've ever heard of chat fiction, chances are, you've got a teenager. Think about it like this: e-books were the new alternative to paperbacks, and chat fiction is the new alternative to e-books. Instead of just putting paperbacks into digital format, chat-fiction are stories, but told in text message…

BookTribNovember 14, 2017

Listicles Popular

Adventure, Heartbreak and a Dash of Magic — Read the First Chapters Free!

Whether you’re thirteen or thirty-something, there’s magic in stories that remind us of what it’s like to feel everything all at once — that dizzy mix of hope, heartbreak, wonder and courage that defines growing up (no matter how old you actually are). These three books are made for readers…

BookTribOctober 15, 2025

Young Adult

International Bestselling Author Brigid Kemmerer Returns With a Thrilling New Fantasy

Brigid Kemmerer’s Warrior Princess Assassin is a young adult fantasy that combines danger, betrayal and the struggles of survival with themes of family and self-discovery. This book follows the journey of a princess who finds herself caught between loyalty to her crown and the desire to live her own life…

Sunday Juliet AdakuSeptember 25, 2025

Miscellany Young Adult

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

Unfortunately, Black American Muslim teens are rarely the main characters in traditionally-published, contemporary young adult novels. In 2017, I was shocked when I learned at my local library there wasn’t a single title available. That abysmal statistic pushed me to start writing these types of stories. More than once, I’ve…

Khadijah VanBrakleJune 30, 2025

Listicles

7 Books That’ll Lure You Into the Shadows

There’s something intoxicating about stories where the line between reality and something more slips just enough to make you question everything. Books where the dead whisper, the air hums with unsaid things and the uncanny becomes ordinary. Whether you’re drawn to girls with dangerous gifts or towns steeped in secrets,…

Monique SnymanJune 11, 2025

Young Adult

YA Fantasy Debut “Celestial Banquet” Is a Veritable Feast for the Senses

Roselle Lim’s YA fantasy debut, Celestial Banquet, is a veritable feast for the senses. Centering around a hot-headed teen protagonist who aims to change her life and home through her cooking skills, it’s a thrilling exploration of family, love and home through a colorful culinary lens. Cooking for the Gods…

Kiersten BjorkJune 3, 2025

Recommended

A Race Through Time to Save the Past and Secure the Future

Beyond Australia is an engaging young-adult novel about an inquisitive teenaged girl who bravely undergoes time travel in the hope of saving her ailing grandfather. This is a first work of fiction for research scientist Lee Forrest, whose empirical training shows up throughout the story in its precisely detailed historical…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 14, 2025

Not Your Average Fairy Tale: 5 Inventive & Enchanting YA Fantasy Novels

Where Grief Opens a Door

Time Travel and Romance Collide in Alexandra Bracken’s ‘Passenger’ Series

Training for the Patriot Games? 7 YA Dystopian Novels Where Athleticism Becomes Power

Is Chat-Fiction the Next Big Thing in Publishing?

Adventure, Heartbreak and a Dash of Magic — Read the First Chapters Free!

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

7 Books That’ll Lure You Into the Shadows

A Race Through Time to Save the Past and Secure the Future

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