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Nothing; I mentioned the great Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery, I loved the setup of Saft's romantic young adult fantasy novel Down Comes the Night. The great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist Saft is also the author of another romantic young adult fantasy novel, A Far Wilder Magic. I loved her character-building, her balance with the young romance, her fantastic, detailed setting,

This light fiction young adult novel offers (reluctant) romance, best friendships, dance lessons, glimpses In the newest young adult book by Nicola Yoon, Evie Thomas is reeling from her parents' divorce--and Nicola Yoon is also the author of the wonderful young adult books Everything, Everything and The Sun

it's 1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a widowed young The MacInteers--tough yet tender mother Rai, her clever daughter Sass, playful young adult Finn, and

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her Legendborn, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very different) young adult book with references to Arthur and his court, Silver in the Bone. independent network of magic, inheritance, bucking expectations, and pending danger for her strong young Legendborn is the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult Legendborn Cycle series.

In Skyhunter, the first book in Marie Lu's young adult Skyhunter duology, Lu offered complex motivations Lu, a former artist in the video game industry, has written multiple young adult series (Legend, Warcross , The Young Elites, and Skyhunter) as well as the stand-alone adult novel The Kingdom of Back.

01 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy. In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading See You Yesterday, the recent young adult novel that plays with The Groundhog Day -type setup for this playful, romantic young adult story is irresistible. prepublication digital edition of this book (published last week) courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Solomon is also the author of The Ex Talk, Weather Girl, and the young adult Today Tonight Tomorrow. Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young

I was hooked by Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction novel about tough young Sena, her skittish In Meg Long's debut, the young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena When Sena finds herself desperately on the run from certain death, she and her injured young fighting

I was taken with the main characters of the past storyline here: a young boy at a children's home and Almost thirty years ago, Dennis, a young boy from a children's home, washed away in the rough waves of Now his sister Amanda, a young adult who first learned of Dennis while researching her birth mother,

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the

How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) is a charming, irresistible young adult story about superheroes In Cristina Fernandez's new young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), main protagonist

with offbeat children's performances on a lazy, decadent English estate in the 1920s and builds to the young-adulthood pages, and the story sweeps through time from the 1920s malaise of the children and the excess of the adults ongoing series of lavish dinner parties, hangovers, persistent hangers-on, and malaise occurring for the adults I loved reading as the children come into themselves--in fits and starts--as young adults, and I came

Reading Now I'm reading Cultish, nonfiction by Amanda Montell; the upcoming (to be published tomorrow) young adult story How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez; and I'm listening to club. 02 How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez In Cristina Fernandez's young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), to be published tomorrow, our main protagonist

adult light fiction is delightful, youthful, sometimes wonderfully silly, and heartwarming. Emiko Jean's young adult light fiction Tokyo Ever After is the story of Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books. And for more young adult stories about royalty, you might try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

It often felt like a young-adult story because of the significant focus on young Peanut and her own challenges

conditions of each passenger's death, Here One Moment ; I'm reading Sally Rooney's newest novel, about young-adult the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two young

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm listening to Life After Life, Kate Atkinson's lovely book about second 01 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult (I mentioned her Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series But during her next go-round with living, she survived only to die young in an accident.

Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other

Along with their ill, bedridden mother, young-adult sisters Sam and Elena struggle to get by on an island freedom, whereas Elena never realized the half-truths and comfort she murmured to Sam when they were young

Cyrus Shams is an orphaned young adult, the child of Iranian immigrants, and a recovering addict and

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anatomy: A Love Story, a gothic young adult historical fiction 01 Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz In Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery, it's 1817 in Edinburgh, and Hazel Sinnett is a young woman desperate to become something women particularly inclined to search for opioid drug addicts like her--in fact, no one seems to believe the young

James Willoughby, a poor, naive young medical student, becomes drawn into the underworld of body snatching series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic .

suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery, the first in a series. This is an absorbing young adult mystery; I listened to it as an audiobook and really liked hearing each If you like this book, you might also like the young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly

She's struggling both emotionally and financially as she tries to support her two young children. Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series Seasons of the Storm, and the young adult books Holding Smoke and The Suffering Tree. This is her first book for adults.

ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary Rosenbach explains anti-Semitism, charming young Mimi shows Joan how to pin her hair and carry herself

this book, check out Will They or Won't They. 04 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy.

Small moments in this young adult book ring true, and the story feels primarily about relationships, In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather

Now I'm reading Tiffany McDaniel's Appalachian-set novel Betty with my book club, Xiran Jay Zhao's young adult blend of Chinese history and science fiction in Iron Widow, and Susan Conley's slim, powerful Betty by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story that's fascinating me so far.

In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character In Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney's book about a young hyper-focused on her interactions and romantic encounters; The Project, Courtney Summers's suspenseful young adult book about a journalist searching for her sister and trying to uncover the dark side of a cult adult book by Courtney Summers. In The Project, Lo and Bea are young sisters whose parents die in a car accident. They drift apart.

A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery series; Young Bain author Douglas Stuart's most recent literary fiction about a working-class Glasgow family and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series about a young woman who Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, young love, a gay relationship forged in an unforgiving adult story Tokyo Ever After, we met Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday, average Japanese-American teen

Ninth House, fiction for adults, is the first in Bardugo's Alex Stern series. I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. It's been five years since a local young woman, Andie Bell, was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh. I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read as well

Blanchet's young adult fantasy Neath Trilogy--and her debut novel--to be published next week. Blanchet In Blanchet's young adult fantasy debut, Herrick's End, Ollie's only friend has disappeared,

an appealingly antagonistic/lovey-dovey relationship between frenemies; and the gloriously dramatic young adult debut from Shelby Mahurin (with a second in the series already published and a third coming out Adult Series). adult trilogy by the same name (Blood & Honey is the second, with the third, Gods & Monsters, set for Reid is a straight-laced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong.

Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young love, mistakes and redemption, romance determination to keep her heart closed might be shaken--along with everything else around which she's built her young adult life.

Amy Tintera is the author of young adult novels, and this is her first adult novel.

Live Evil ; I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery, set in a 1975 Adirondack summer camp where the young Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other

In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about young love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her

The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was Serpent & Dove is Shelby Mahurin's first book in the young adult trilogy of the same name (Blood & Honey Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. was surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young

Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy Lu, a former artist in the video game industry, has written the Legends, Young Elites, and Warcross series editorialization about class and race--plenty of substance and depth to make it feel like a book for adults rather than necessarily a young adult title.

I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series. adult Western, and not just because of its amazing cover. Kate is a tough young woman posing as a male cowboy. adult mystery, the first in a series.

Heard's young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between Heard's young adult thriller follows the twists and turns at the intersection of three volatile young I loved the girls' young love, but I was haunted by the fact that their relationship seemed doomed because This was a lightning-fast read for me, and while the young people's circumstances build to be almost Heard is also the author of adult thrillers The Kill Club and Hunting Annabelle, and she co-hosts the

Young adult Lily is an aspiring journalist who in her personal life is trying to come to terms with the

Cory Anderson's debut is a story about darkness, desperation, unlikely loyalty, and, ultimately, brave young In the young adult novel What Beauty There Is, Jack and his brother are painfully poor and living alone This element made the book feel young adult to me more than anything else. The main protagonists are young, but their concerns are weighty. I love a brave-young-protagonist setup, and the brothers' love and determination were fantastic.

I'm Reading Now I'm reading three books that are about to be published: Cory Anderson's debut, a dark young adult novel about young brothers desperately trying to stay together and stay alive in rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced California-set thriller about an infatuation between two young women, dangerous 01 What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson In the young adult novel What Beauty There Is, Jack and his adult thriller follows the twists and turns at the intersection of three volatile young people--bored

Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six Crimson Cranes, Elizabeth Lim's first book in her newest young adult duology. characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim In this young adult novel, the first in a duology from Elizabeth Lim, Shiori is trying desperately to hide the forbidden

I actually love a nice long science fiction tale to dive into, and this is the first adult title from Christopher Paolini, the author of the popular young adult book Eragon and its three sequels (dragons former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach a young I love a Gold Rush story, and a young adult story, and a story about "otherness" and about brave young adult historical tale with magical realism mixed in.

Rene Denfeld's literary fiction about trying to find out the truth about the decades-old death of a young 01 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many Things and A Flicker in the Dark. 03 Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld Almost thirty years ago, Dennis, a young Now his sister Amanda, a young adult who learned of Dennis while researching her birth mother, is trying