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…

David Arnold’s third novel, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, is singular and brainy and deeply intriguing, with an ending that devastates. It centers on Noah, an observant high school swimmer with odd rabbithole fascinations. Noah: loves his BFFs, writes concise histories of the things that fascinate him, and keeps up the fiction that it’s […]

Pride Month is a great time to put the focus on queer YA—specifically, some of the incredible intersectional queer books YA has been blessed with, given to us by indigenous authors and authors of color. We’ve got a stack you can read now, and another half dozen you can preorder!

This week in YA is a bonanza for fans of fairy-tale mashups, true crime retellings, and historical fantasy, especially if you like stories focused on sibling relationships and complex friendships. Contemporary realism lovers are covered as well, with dynamic duo Rachel Cohn and David Levithan releasing a fresh collaboration, and Jason Reynolds offering up a book-length […]