6 Crucial YA City Stories
We all love great world-building, and bow down to the likes of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor with their beautifully…
Roundups
6 LGBTQIA Books That Aren’t About Coming Out
Finding LGBTQIA books that weren’t about coming out used to be like finding a needle in a haystack, especially when…
7 Great YAs About Reproductive Choice
Reproductive choices are a forever relevant topic, especially in YA, a category rife with stories about romance, sex, girlhood, empowerment,…
8 YA Books Perfect for Reading Outside
My typical reading scenario looks like this: me, in my bed, a heap of blankets and pillows around me, a…
5 YA Books About Dangerous Games
When you talk about dangerous and deadly games in young adult books…well, a couple of titles likely spring to mind…
North of Happy and More YA Novels About the Joy of Food
You can tell North of Happy, by Adi Alsaid, is a special book from its very first page. After all, how many novels…
7 YA Books About Twins
There’s just something about twins that’s so fascinating to those of us who aren’t one, isn’t there? (And probably really…
5 YA Thrillers with a Supernatural Twist
What’s better than a twisty, turny, mind-bending thriller? Or a book with elements that are not quite of this world?…
10 YA Novels that Celebrate the Power of Internet Connection
If there’s one thing teens from the ’90s onward understand, it’s the magical power of the internet to connect us, whether…
From Sweet to Heartbreaking, 8 YA Romances Perfect for Valentine’s Day
Competing against the splendor of Valentine’s Day chocolate is a feat, but these YA romances satisfy every bookworm’s sweet tooth,…
YA vs. the Multiverse
You know how it is. You’re just moseying along, minding your own business, when you stumble into a whole multiverse situation.…
6 YA Novels Perfect for Fans of Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you write a contemporary YA novel that references Jane Austen, I’m going…
Star-crossed Books: Feminist AF Edition
They don’t live in the same place in the bookstore, and it’s rare that someone will recommend a nonfiction book…
12 Hopeful YA Books to Brighten Your Days
Life is hard, and the books we love reflect that, from Katniss confronting a Capitol that seems just a little too…
5 Books About Writers Every #NaNoWriMo Noveler Should Read
Grab your motivational snacks and your laptop and get ready to sequester yourself in a quiet nook—it’s National Novel Writing…
6 Teen Novels Written By Actual Teens
As a preteen and later a teenager, I had dreams of publishing my first novel early and becoming a literary…
6 YA Books For the John Hughes Fan in You!
So your Netflix queue is piled high with old school teen classics like Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The…
6 YA Books That Visit the Land of the Dead
As we get deeper into autumn and the days grow shorter, those of us of the goth persuasion rub our…
7 Graphic Novels to Read if You’re Chasing the Feels
And honestly, who isn’t? These 5 graphic novels have all the feels you need and then some. It’s about to…