5 New and Recent YA Books Every Neil Gaiman Fan Must Read

The Love That Split the World, by Emily Henry
Natalie is about to get out of her too-small hometown; she just has to make it through one more summer before she sets off for college. Everything seems perfectly manageable until she starts seeing buildings that don’t belong and, more importantly, cute boys that don’t exist. It all has something to do with the mysterious “Grandmother” that visits Natalie sometimes—and Natalie only has three months to figure it out. With rivers of ancient stories running through it and a sleepy feeling of mystery, The Love That Split the World is haunting and bittersweet and absolutely mesmerizing.

The Dark Days Club, by Alison Goodman
Do you like your old-fashioned British worlds complete with buckets of monsters? Then The Dark Days Club is perfect for you. Lady Helen is a normal girl on the verge of her very first London Season whose biggest concern is how to avoid awkward questions about her mysteriously dead (and potentially treasonous) mother. Until the past starts catching up with her, that is. With a missing maid, a returned acquaintance, and her family heritage haunting her at every turn, it isn’t long before Helen is introduced to a secret society and all the dangerous creatures that come with it.

Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
There’s nothing we like more than a good heist novel—except, perhaps, a good heist novel bursting with dark secrets, magic, and plenty of plot twists. Kaz Brekker may be a criminal mastermind, but even a mastermind needs a crew when facing an impossible mission. And the only thing that’s going to be more impossible than breaking in to the Ice Palace and getting back out again? Convincing his crew to get along long enough to do it. You’ll love the grit and the backstories so much, we promise you’ll be dying to read the sequel, Crooked Kingdom, when it comes out next month.

Wink Poppy Midnight, by April Genevieve Tucholke
If you’re missing that lilting, fairy tale-esque language and the creeping, crawling suspicion that you’re not sure who the good guy is (or even if there is a good guy), Wink Poppy Midnight should be at the top of your to-read list. When Midnight moves next door to Wink, an odd, Luna Lovegood-type girl, he feels like he can finally leave his complicated relationship with mean-girl Poppy behind. But Wink and Poppy have their own battles going on, and Midnight starts to realize he’s becoming less of a shining hero and more of a manipulated pawn than he ever wanted to be. But being a hero is tough when you don’t know who’s actually telling you the truth.

The Darkest Part of the Forest, by Holly Black
Hazel and her brother, Ben, have been in love with the Fae prince sleeping in the glass coffin for as long as they’ve lived in Fairfold. So when he finally escapes his prison, they have to decide how far they’re willing to go to help the beautiful horned boy—and how much they’re willing to put their friends and family at risk by doing so. Thus begins a wild chase through the darkest corners of the Fae world, complete with long-kept secrets and memory gaps and the lingering feeling that something essential has been forgotten.
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