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satisfying relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy trilogy from Holly Black.

Aren't young adult books just the best? I was recently speaking to a group about publishing and books, and they asked for some young adult book I could have listed so many fantastic young adult titles here, but I picked these varied, wonderful six Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. Adult.

satisfying relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy trilogy from Holly Black.

satisfying relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy trilogy from Holly Black. Have you read any or all of these magical young adult mysteries related to royalty?

Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. Some other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might like featuring young adult books: Six Royally Adult. What are your favorite young adult books that make you delight in feeling all the feelings?

Is this kind of a young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast? I'm really hoping so. Two hundred years in the past, Leila is a young Muslim woman struggling to survive. #youngadult, #mystery, #series Any young adult mysteries you've enjoyed lately? There are many recent-ish young adult mysteries that sound intriguing, and I had a little trouble narrowing Where was this embarrassment of young-adult-mystery riches when I was actually a young adult?

Knoll's novel was inspired by real events; Bright Young Women traces a serial killer targeting young Jessica Knoll's novel Bright Young Women is inspired by real-life events: the targeting of a sorority In 1978 Tallahassee, Florida, the serial disappearances and deaths of young women in the Pacific Northwest I read Bright Young Women  for my book club. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine There's a freckle-faced young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy book--with a pirate ship reflected in her blue, blue eye. After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a pirates, a little forbidden romance, a handful of interestingly dysfunctional relationships, a plucky young

Young builds a story of traveling through time and of shimmers of other realities that might have been Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in

Young offers a brutally honest behind-the-scenes look at the systematic abuse she suffered in The Children Daniella Mestyanek Young grew up the daughter of high-ranking members of The Children of God cult in At age 15, after years of excruciating systematic suffering, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school Young's pain in both avenues is substantial and horrifying, and she is brutally honest. Yet Uncultured is primarily an affecting account of Young's impressive perseverance, hard-fought growth

real-life sixteenth-century heroine, Isola ; I'm reading I Am Not Jessica Chen , Ann Liang's newest young-adult courtesy of Random House and NetGalley. 02 I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang In Ann Liang's newest young-adult I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy You can find my review of her great young-adult rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy novel A Song to Drown Rivers here . 03 The Righteous

Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young In his second novel, Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart offers the story of a working-class Glasgow family and The story of Young Mungo largely alternates between an intensely disturbing, extended situation involving abuse, neglect, and danger and the blossoming of a forbidden young love, the vulnerability of allowing Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, a gay relationship forged in an intensely unforgiving

The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era young she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young crafty finishing school nemesis, the oddball teachers and quirky school leadership, the persistent young This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School.

Zentner's wonderful young adult story of two Appalachian-born teen best friends plunged into an elite I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books, and I just mentally added In the This ticked all of my boxes for a favorite young adult read. also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books , The Serpent King , and he has two books scheduled for publication in 2026, Wayfarers and

Ann Liang's trading-places young adult story allows faulted, imperfect Jenna Chen to live as her perfect In Ann Liang's newest young-adult novel, Jenna Chen has always been a disappointment, at least when compared More Ann Liang love I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real You can find my review of Liang's great young-adult rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here  and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy novel A Song to Drown Rivers   here .

In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own I originally saw this listed as the third book in Adrienne Young's Fable series, but I don’t see that I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world Click here for my review of Adrienne Young's Fable, and click here for my review of the second book in Young is also the author of Sky in the Deep and The Girl the Sea Gave back, both in the Sky and Sea series

Croucher's young adult queer medieval adventure romance is sweet, spunky, and full of great banter, with Nottingham, things get complicated for both Mariel and Clem in this sassy, fun, queer historical fiction young adult romance. It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school nemeses against each other: one relentless perfectionist This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is nemeses--minus the emails) reminded me in some ways of Rachel Lynn Solomon's Today Tonight Tomorrow, a young adult story I loved. I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy

The fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious young adult mystery series showcases Stevie Bell's instincts More from Maureen Johnson Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery

I love Young's tone and her characters. Namesake is the second and, sadly, final book in Young's duology about the wonderfully strong, ruthless , clever young seafaring woman, Fable. I love Young's tone and the characters she's created in this series. I wish there were a third book in this series coming from Young.

Gracia's young adult debut digs into teenaged June's messy, sometimes disastrous, and ultimately heartwarming Anna Gracia's young adult novel centers around high schooler June Chu. You can check out my Bossy reviews of other young adult novels here.

, Rachel Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm reading Lex Croucher's soon-to-be published sassy young adult medieval romance Not For the Faint of Heart ; and I'm listening to Coco Mellors's novel about She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is milking him for information When she meets Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young activists, she believes she's manipulating adult romance.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Gail Carriger's young adult steampunk mystery life's mysteries, than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a young she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young to use household items as weapons, use their feminine wiles to distract, and use assumptions about young This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School.

novel about AI, starships, and revenge, Ancillary Justice ; and I'm listening to Maureen Johnson's young adult mystery novel Nine Liars . as-yet-unnamed female narrator's senior year in college, she becomes friends with Sam and Yash, two vibrant young Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Jeff Zentner's endearing young adult story of friendship, 01 In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books

ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present mysteries and bright young Stevie Bell on the case(s). "...no one was You might also like the young adult mysteries One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, and the stellar If you like young adult books, you might be interested in the titles that make up the Greedy Reading Lists Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series and Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books.

Xishi is a beautiful young woman who makes her village in the region of Yue proud, for she will almost But she catches the eye of the well-known young military advisor Fanli, and as she becomes trained in This story ticked so many of my boxes--a strong, young, underestimated female; an important quest; forbidden I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy And you can find my review of her great young-adult rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here .

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked In Alexandra Bracken's young adult novel Silver in the Bone, sorceresses and dark magical beings populate Bone, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very different) young adult book with references to Arthur and his court, Legendborn. Bracken's story offered sassy banter that I loved, a great enemies-to-(not-quite)-lovers setup, a strong young

This third book in McManus's young-adult mystery series keeps the surprises coming, ties new twists into I listened to this third installment in Karen McManus's young adult One of Us Is Lying mystery series they say they are; old mysteries come to light and complicate things dramatically; and yet again the young One Of Us Is Back offers more Bayview intrigue and young love, family conflict and growth, and builds

I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously Painter shapes believable young characters and I cared about their lives. the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy.

Jessica Knoll's novel inspired by real-life events surrounding a serial killer in the 1970s, Bright Young 01 Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll Jessica Knoll's novel Bright Young Women is inspired by real-life But she catches the eye of the well-known young military advisor Fanli, and as she becomes trained in I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy And you can find my review of her great young-adult rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You here .

; and I'm reading Death at Morning House , a stand-alone young-adult mystery by the author of the Truly This is a stand-alone young adult novel by Maureen Johnson, who is also the author of the Truly Devious

Lex Croucher's queer medieval rom-com--the author's debut young-adult novel--is an absolute gem; it's This didn't feel strictly young adult to me, although it's certainly romantic without being explicit

Some of the small moments didn't feel real to me, and the story felt like it was young adult--which I Living in a grown-up's house, holding down a job, having an adult life. T. seem to have been thrown forward in time and into the thick of young adulthood. But why? Some of the small moments didn't work for me here, and the book felt like a young adult read to me (but

magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series and Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love , plus you can check out magic in all adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was smiling at all of it in delight Serpent & Dove is Shelby Mahurin's first book in the young adult trilogy of the same name. Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong.

Pam Zhang's dystopian story Land of Milk and Honey; and I'm reading a young adult, lighthearted story I was distracted by the ultra-dramatic young-adult teen angst and clumsy dialogue, yet the promise of

Emiko Jean's young 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 young adult royal stories, try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

For one year when they're young adults, the sisters reach mindboggling heights of fame as the pop duo

fiction tracing life in a British boarding school and beyond; a Norse-inspired fantasy saga; a fun young adult, queer, medieval adventure romance; and a heartwarming, offbeat story set in Japan about the healing adult queer medieval adventure romance is sweet, spunky, and full of great banter, with characters finding adult romance. It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

Kennedy writes poignantly about the Irish Troubles through the point of view of Cushla, a young adult Cushla is a young teacher (who also fills in at the family pub) living through growing violence outside

reading the newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4; I'm reading a young adult fantasy novel of Arthurian legend, Silver in the Bone, by Alexandra Bracken, also scheduled for Comedy will be published April 4. 02 Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken In Alexandra Bracken's young adult novel Silver in the Bone, sorceresses and dark magical beings populate the underground beneath prepublication edition of this book courtesy of NetGalley, Random House Children's, and Knopf Books for Young

In Kristy Boyce's young-adult charmer, high schoolers Riley and Nathan, coworkers who have nothing in

adult stretching her wings despite her limits--her mother's alcoholism, her father's death, and her Cushla is a young teacher (who also fills in at the family pub) living through growing violence outside Along with their ill, bedridden mother, young-adult sisters Sam and Elena struggle to get by on an island In Anna Quindlen's novel After Annie , the abrupt death of the titular young mother--which occurs in Cyrus Shams is an orphaned young adult, the child of Iranian immigrants, and a recovering addict and

Samantha Markum's young adult novel is set in a small town in the Florida Keys, with plenty of teen angst I received an electronic version of this young adult title courtesy of NetGalley and St.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm currently reading three fantasy titles: one young adult novel to be published I'm reading Spells for Forgetting, the newest young adult novel from Adrienne Young, author of Fable and Namesake; I'm reading In the Serpent's Wake, the second in the great young adult Tess of the Road 01 Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young When Emery Blackwood's best friend was killed and Emery's Click here to check out my reviews of Young's books Fable and Namesake (a duology) as well as The Last

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young Holes's nonfiction book Unmasked, about his career solving cold cases; and I'm reading Samantha Markum's young adult You Wouldn't Dare, about summer turmoil, young love, and betrayal, to be published March 28. When her father disappears, abandoning the family, young Deborah is sent to serve as an indentured servant I received an electronic version of this young adult title, scheduled for publication March 28, courtesy

ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing , and young detectives' inspiration and instincts. Johnson also wrote the young adult Shades of London series, which is based on Jack the Ripper's crimes

different lives in two eras and forced to choose; and I'm reading The Box in the Woods, a stand-alone young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson that features smart, determined Stevie Bell from the Truly Devious Train by Amita Parikh In Amita Parikh's upcoming (to be published December 6) novel The Circus Train, a young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson. Maureen Johnson also wrote the young adult Shades of London series, which is based on Jack the Ripper's

revisits characters and places from her Folk of the Air trilogy; and I'm reading the upcoming (January 9) young adult rom-com Dungeons and Drama, about a young woman with Broadway aspirations and the nerdy game store of Nothing; I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series. 03 Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce Riley wants to bring back her school's spring musical

In John Green's nonfiction book Everything Is Tuberculosis , he tells his story of befriending a young Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year I read it) as well as the young adult novels An Abundance of Katherines, Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for