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Hey YA Fans!
Let’s dig into this week’s new YA books and YA book news. There’s so much of each to get excited by.
YA Book News
- Next week’s Monday newsletter will highlight all of the YA adaptations hitting screens in the fall, but you’re going to get some of these as teasers now. Here’s a first look at There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins as it’ll appear on Netflix.
- There’s an official date for when you can stream One Of Us Is Lying.
- The trailer for Birds of Paradise — the adaptation of Bright Burning Stars — has landed and this is one for ballet fans, for sure.
- Charlie Jane Anders’s Victories Greater Than Death has been optioned for adaptation.
- I absolutely loved this look at Tyra Banks’s bananas YA Book, 10 years later. I want to know why we never got the last two books in the trilogy (this is humor, not serious).
- Have you noticed the growth of Colombian children’s and YA lit?
- I absolutely loved this deep dive into the tone and politics of Teen Vogue over the last decade.
- This one is YA-adjacent in so far as Bennett Madison is a YA author and made this his hobby while working on his next book: I couldn’t stop writing fake Dear Prudence letters that got published.
New YA Books This Week
Please note that with supply chain issues, paper supply challenges, and the pandemic more broadly, publication dates are changing at a pace I can’t keep up with. These are as current as I have, but some may have been pushed back. If a book catches your attention, the smartest thing to do right now is to preorder it or request it from your library. It’ll be a fun surprise when it arrives. This goes, too, for any books you might be planning to purchase for the holidays — the sooner you pick up the hard copies, if that’s your preference, the better.
Hardcover
Alma Presses Play by Tina Cane
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Chasing The Truth: Adapted for Young Readers by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and adapted by Ruby Shamir (nonfiction)
The Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
Defy The Night by Brigid Kemmerer (series)
The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski (series)
Idol Gossip by Alexandra Leigh Young
It All Comes Back To You by Farah Naz Rishi
Kneel by Candace Buford
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach
Stalking Shadows by Cyla Panin
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Walking In Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell
Witch Rising by Paige McKenzie and Nancy Ohlin (series)
Paperback
Gold Wings Rising by Alex London (series)
Horrid by Katrina Leno
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur
Truelife by Jay Kristoff (paperback)
This Week at Book Riot
- The Twilight renaissance is here and we’re living through it.
- A giant round-up of books like Shatter Me.
- New and forthcoming YA science fiction for your TBR.
- You’ve heard the phrase “dark academia” by now, but do you know what it is? Here’s a primer!
- I LOVE a good YA book with solid, fully-rendered adults, so I dig this look at great grandparents in YA.
As always, thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you on Saturday for deals.
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram