June is here and it’s time to read with pride! Romance reads are always a crowd favorite, and when you layer in a queer storyline? Pure magic! Whether it’s good old-fashioned word of mouth from our amazing booksellers or a friend — or viral TikTok post, these titles have been getting a lot of buzz […]

Welcome to our newest feature on B&N Teen Blog, Get to Know a YA Author, in which we pose the same questions to different YA authors so readers can get to learn a little more about them, what they write, what they read, and what they love! Today’s interview stars none other than Rin Chupeco, […]

Today marks the 170th anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and there’s no question that his legend and his work have long surpassed his brief time on this mortal plane. I was lucky enough this year to edit a tremendous collection of reimaginings of thirteen of his works (more on that in a […]

Having been Emily Lloyd-Jones fans since her debut, the wildly fun X-Men meets Ocean’s 11 mashup that is Illusive, we know every time she comes out with a new book, it’s going to be different in ways we’ve never expected. No doubt that’s going to be true for The Bone Houses, her fourth novel and the […]

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Rainbow lit for kids is on the rise and I for one could not be more thrilled about it. You may have already caught that this year yielded five great Middle Grade novels with representation all over the LGBT spectrum, and now we’re rounding it out with some picture books and even more Middle Grade […]

Lisa Bunker is the author of the critically acclaimed Felix Yz, about a boy with a hyperintelligent fourth dimensional being fused inside of him. Her newest middle grade novel, Zenobia July, is a smart and heartfelt coming of age story about a trans girl who is also a cyber detective. Please tell us about Zenobia […]

Movies have their Oscars and music has its Grammys, but the biggest day for queer lit across all categories is the announcement of the Lammy nominees, i.e., finalists for the Lambda Awards for Literature. This year’s YA Lammy finalists, announced today, are some truly beautiful works of art spanning the queer experience, from stories of […]

It’s been a beautiful couple of years for LGBTQ Middle Grade novels, and it isn’t just because the number of titles being published per year have gone way up. The books themselves are wonderfully written, touching, and blend the experiences of questioning and coming out with stories of family, friendship, growth, economic hardship, mental health, […]

Anyone pursuing creative work with any level of seriousness has heard the question: “How do you find the time?” They may or may not have responded by laughing, loudly and grimly, until the questioner slunk away. Time, as Heidi Heilig says below, isn’t forged, but “gleaned from sacrifice on a dark altar.” Around childcare, family […]

Autumn is always a dauntingly fantasy-packed season, and it can be tough to make a book stand out from the pack. But when you center yours around the gory art of murderous falconry or magical blood and atomic bombs, no one’s forgetting about your book anytime soon. Today we’ve got two authors who are making […]

Welcome to another edition of YAs That Get it Right, which is all about YAs that truly nail an element of the teen experience. This time, we’re talking about an issue that’s close to home for a lot of YA readers: anxiety. People experience anxiety in so many different ways, and no single depiction can […]

In case you haven’t caught on from all our fawning, one of our favorite new books of the season is Mary H.K. Choi’s fabulous contemporary YA debut, Emergency Contact, about two people thrust together in a freak situation who end up becoming each other’s emergency contacts, and the relationship that builds through the constant text […]

With the release of The Radical Element, her follow-up to the outstanding A Tyranny of Petticoats, Jessica Spotswood has just given us all some more required reading for Women’s History Month. Once again, Spotswood enlists some of YA’s most dazzling voices to tell twelve evocative stories starring a diverse range of girls, all boasting the […]

Once upon a time, there was a website called Gawker, and I spent a whole lot of time leaving comments on it about Top Chef and Gossip Girl. Fast forward ten years and I learn that A) the author of one of my all-time favorite YA thrillers (and gay YAs), Last Seen Leaving, was also a commenter, […]