This week’s most exciting releases include a road trip from hell, a fancy cruise from hell, and a search for family secrets that leads to the wrong kind of attention from the yakuza. So basically don’t leave the house this summer, just stay in and read. From a near-future heartbreaker exploring the power of forgetting to […]
Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything is the kind of book that immediately grabs you with its premise: Madeline is “allergic to the world,” a lifelong sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency. Living on “SCID Row,” her world is constrained to her doting physician mother and nurse Carla. That is, until Olly, the literal boy next door, reaches out a lifeline […]
New or old, these are the YA books we’re obsessed with right now. Add them to your September reading list!
Everyone has those books from childhood that deeply influenced them, whether classics or graphic novels or, for modern teens, hopefully actual YA. For me and other Readers of a Certain Age, it was the Sweet Valley High series. (And Sweet Valley Twins. And Sweet Valley Senior Year, which was terribly underrated. And Sweet Valley University. […]
How wild is it that there are so many queer novels coming in May and June that they need their own huge post? Can you imagine a better way to spend Pride Month? Gah, it’s so good. Anyway, let’s break it down. May is the obvious standout for trans representation for this year, with major trans/nonbinary characters […]