The Best Young Adult Books of 2025

If you shed tears over When Haru Was Here and You’ve Reached Sam, we hope you’ve recharged your tear ducts for You’ve Found Oliver, the latest and most satisfyingly heart-wrenching story from Dustin Thao.

With a twist on Snow White, this dark academia love story is an epic slow burn that takes enemies-to-lovers and fake dating to thrilling new heights.

Return to the arena in this stunning Sunrise on the Reaping collector’s edition, featuring a brand new cover with foil details, exclusive back matter and more. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Lyra and Malcolm are back on the trail towards uncovering the truth about Dust. This magically and scientifically entwined trilogy finds a brilliant and resounding conclusion that will speak to readers forever.

Welcome to the enchanted realms of Pixie Hollow. A warm and charming romance steeped in fairies, monsters and magic. Perfect for anyone looking for more whimsy in their reading life.

Step into the minds and hearts of Grim and Oro like never before. Come for the gorgeous design, stay for the addictive story. This dual-perspective fantasy is a work of art inside and out.

Nothing shakes up your perspective quite like a classic consciousness swap, and that’s what Jenna Chen is facing. With sweeping prose and dynamic character work, this is a powerful story about identity.

A hockey-centric heartthrob of a rom-com, complete with quippy dialogue, relatable characters and fake dating. This is a trope-tastic breeze of a read that’s perfect for fans of slow-burn love stories.

A haunted estate, a perilous garden — this is a bone-chilling Gothic thriller that will grip you until the very end. Delivered with stunning prose, this tale of obsession, murder and family secrets is perfect for fans of Don’t Let the Forest In.

Bree’s flight from her destiny is not going well, but then again, the world itself isn’t going well. With the stakes ratcheting up, will Bree be the one to make a difference?

To anyone who wanted more Effy and Preston, here’s your wish granted. This companion novella to A Study in Drowning is a charmer in more ways than one.

In the follow-up to Axie Oh’s Floating World, Rex and her friends were able to stop a war from brewing, but there is a larger threat lurking in the royal court, and Rex might be the only one who can save her people.

Fairytales, mythology, magic, romance and a main character who’s as compelling as she is empathetic. This rip-roaring adventure inspired by Beauty and the Beast is a charmer.

Right as your heart begins to heal from the aftermath of the Powerless Trilogy, we return to the kingdom for another battle. Set against the backdrop of Fearless, a beautiful and tragic tale tethering love, death and the price of power unfolds before our eyes.

The Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games are about to begin. Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Kidan has gone full vampire, for better and worse. With scintillating danger on the rise at Uxlay, this is a bloody and action-packed thrill ride.