To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve compiled a preview of the notable YA books, divided into fiction and nonfiction. You can sample some of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk.
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Fiction
Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High (HarperTeen, 4/17) –A new novel from the National Book Award winning author of The Poet X.
Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral (Viking BYR, 5/21)
Samira Ahmed, Internment (Little, Brown BYR, 3/19)
Gennifer Albin, Immortal (Entangled: Teen, 8/6)
Mindee Arnett, Shadow & Flame (Balzer + Bray, 6/4)
Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne (HarperTeen, 5/7)
Tracy Banghart, Queen of Ruin (Little, Brown BYR, 7/2)
Michael Barakiva, Hold My Hand (FSG BYR, 5/21)
Claire Eliza Bartlett, We Rule the Night (Little, Brown BYR, 4/2)
Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly (Tor Teen, 5/21)
Erin Beaty, The Traitor’s Kingdom (Imprint, 7/9)
Emma Berquist, Missing, Presumed Dead (Greenwillow, 5/21)
Julie Berry, Lovely War (Viking BFYR, 3/6)
Katharyn Blair, The Beckoning Shadow (Katherine Tegen, 7/2)
Chelsea Bobulski, Remember Me (Feiwel & Friends, 8/6)
Moe Bonneau, The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel (Henry Holt BYR, 5/21)
Erin Bowman, Immunity (HarperTeen, 7/2)
Nadine Brandes, Romanov (Thomas Nelson, 5/7)*
Anna Bright, The Beholder (HarperTeen, 6/4)
Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell, Sky Without Stars (Simon Pulse, 3/26)
Sophie Cameron, Last Bus to Everland (Roaring Brook, 5/14)
Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta, Once & Future (Jimmy Patterson, 3/26)*
Ann Dávila Cardinal, Five Midnights (Tor Teen, 6/4)
Cora Carmack, Rage: A Stormheart Novel (Tor Teen, 6/11)
Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry, Hello Girls (Katherine Tegen, 8/6)
Sona Charaipotra, Symptoms of a Heartbreak (Imprint, 5/21)
Kat Cho, Wicked Fox (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/25)
Ally Condie, The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe (Dutton BYR, 3/26)
Audrey Coulthurst, Of Ice and Shadows (Balzer + Bray, 8/13)
L.D. Crichton, All Our Broken Pieces (Disney-Hyperion, 5/7)
Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu, The Red Scrolls of Magic (Margaret K. McElderry, 4/9)
Brandy Colbert, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph (Little, Brown BYR, 8/20)
Christelle Dabos, The Missing of Clairdelune, Book Two of The Mirror Visitor Quartet (Europa Editions, 4/30)*
Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe (Harper, 4/2)
Somaiya Daud, Court of Lions: A Mirage Novel (Flatiron, 8/27)
Natasha Deen, In the Key of Nira Ghani (Running Press Kids, 4/9)
Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls (Quirk, 4/19) *
Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 4/30)
Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints (Wednesday Books, 4/2)
Shannon Dunlap, Izzy + Tristan (Poppy, 3/12)
Allison Raskin and Gaby Dunn, Please Send Help (Wednesday Books, 7/16)*
David, Elliott, Voices (HMH BYR, 3/26)*
Elizabeth Eulberg, Past Perfect Life (Bloomsbury YA, 7/9)
Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame (FSG BYR, 5/14)
Mary Fan, Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon (Page Street Kids, 6/11)
Lisa Fiedler, We Walked the Sky (Razorbill, 7/2)
Alex Flinn, Girls of July (HarperTeen, 6/4)
Jessie Ann Foley, Sorry for Your Loss (HarperTeen, 6/4)
Kristina Forest, I Wanna Be Where You Are (Roaring Brook, 6/4)
Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float (Dial, 5/7)
Gillian French, The Missing Season (HarperTeen, 5/21)
Stephanie Garber, Finale: A Caraval Novel (Flatiron, 5/7)
Lori Goldstein, Screen Queens (Razorbill, 6/11)
Maurene Goo, Somewhere Only We Know (FSG BYR, 5/7)
Ellen Goodlett, Rise (Little, Brown BYR, 6/11)
Erin Gough, Amelia Westlake Was Never Here (Poppy, 5/21)
Claudia Gray, Defy the Fates (Little, Brown BYR, 4/2)
Sally Green, The Demon World (Viking BYR, 8/6)
Sandy Hall, The Shortest Distance Between Love and Hate (Swoon Reads, 7/9)
Harriet Reuter Hapgood, How to Be Luminous (Roaring Brook, 4/30)
Rachel Hawkins, Her Royal Highness (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 5/7)
Kaui Hart Hemmings, Testimony from Your Perfect Girl (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 5/14)
Joan He, Descendant of the Crane (Albert Whitman, 4/2)*
Stephanie Hemphill, The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined (Balzer + Bray, 6/11)
Katie Henry, Let’s Call It a Doomsday (Katherine Tegen Books, 8/6)
Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes (Little, Brown BYR, 5/14)
Christine Lynn Herman, The Devouring Gray (Disney-Hyperion, 4/2)
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider Secret Weapon: Seven Untold Adventures From the Life of a Teenaged Spy (Philomel, 5/21)
Kosoko Jackson, A Place for Wolves (Sourcebook Fire, 4/2)*
Tiffany D. Jackson, Let Me Hear a Rhyme (Katherine Tegen, 5/21)
Danielle L. Jensen, Dark Shores (Tor Teen, 5/7)
Carrie Jones, Steven E. Wedel, In the Woods (Tor Teen, 7/16)
Claire Kann, If It Makes You Happy (Swoon Reads, 6/4)
Brigid Kemmerer, Call It What You Want (Bloomsbury YA, 6/25)
Eric Kester, Gut Check (FSG BYR, 8/13)
Adrienne Kisner, The Confusion of Laurel Graham (Feiwel & Friends, 6/4)
SM Koz, Risking It All (Swoon Reads, 6/18)
Autumn Krause, A Dress for the Wicked (HarperTeen, 8/6)
David Kreizman, The Year They Fell (Imprint, 7/30)
Dawn Kurtagich, Teeth in the Mist (Little, Brown BYR, 6/11)
J.M. Lee, Flames of the Dark Crystal #4 (Penguin Workshop, 7/23)
Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl (G.P Putnam’s Sons BYR, 8/13)
Katrina Leno, You Must Not Miss (Little, Brown BYR, 4/23)
Pittacus Lore, Lore Novel #3 (HarperCollins, 6/25)
Rachael Lucas, My Box-Shaped Heart (Feiwel & Friends, 8/20)
Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday (HarperTeen, 7/23)
Taran Matharu, The Chosen (Feiwel & Friends, 5/7)
Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler Operatic (Groundwood, 4/2)
Claire McFall Outcasts (Floris, 3/21)
S.C. Megale, This Is Not a Love Scene (Wednesday, 5/7)
Sam J. Miller, Destroy All Monsters (HarperTeen, 7/2)
Derek Milman and James Patterson, Swipe Right for Murder (Jimmy Patterson, 8/6)
Joseph Moldover, Every Moment After (HMH, 4/9)
Nina Moreno, Don’t Date Rosa Santos (Disney-Hyperion, 5/14)
Lauren Morrill, Better Than the Best Plan (FSG BYR, 6/25)
Maya Motayne, Nocturna (Balzer + Bray, 5/17)
Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story (Balzer + Bray, 6/4)
Jenn P. Nguyen, Fake It Till You Break It (Swoon Reads, 5/28)
Preston Norton, Where I End and You Begin (Disney-Hyperion, 6/4)
Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/4)
Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (Henry Holy BYR, 7/30)
James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet, The Fall of Crazy House (Jimmy Patterson, 4/8)
Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves (Henry Holt BYR, 8/6)
Mitali Perkins, Forward Me Back to You (FSG BYR, 4/2)
Shivaun Plozza, Tin Heart (Flatiron, 3/12)
Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked (Balzer + Bray, 5/28)
Ashley Poston, Soul of Stars (Balzer + Bray, 7/23)
Anna Priemaza, Fan the Fame (HarperTeen, 8/20)
Sara Raasch, These Divided Shores (Balzer + Bray, 8/27)
Christine Riccio, Again, but Better (Wednesday, 5/7)
Becca Ritchie and Krista Ritchiem The Last Hope (Wednesday Books, 8/20)
Lilliam Rivera, Dealing in Dreams (Simon & Schuster BYR, 3/5)
Jess Rothenberg, The Kingdom (Henry Holt BYR, 5/28)
Madeleine Roux, Tomb of Ancients (HarperTeen, 5/14)
Meredith Russo, Birthday (Flatiron, 5/21)
Aminah Mae Safi, Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends, 6/11)
Shannon Schuren, The Virtue of Sin (Philomel, 7/25)
Breeana Shields, The Bone Charmer (Page Street Kids, 5/21)
Andrew Shvarts, War of the Bastards (Disney-Hyperion, 6/4)
Laura Sibson, The Art of Breaking Things (Viking BYF, 6/18)
Crystal Smith, Bloodleaf (HMH BYR, 3/12)*
Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don’t Burn (Razorbill 5/28)
Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay (HarperTeen, 6/11)
Danielle Stinson, Before I Disappear (Feiwel & Friends, 7/23)
Danika Stone, Switchback (Swoon Reads, 5/28)
Misa Sugiura, This Time Will Be Different (HarperTeen, 6/4)
Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked (Bloomsbury YA, 6/4)
Blair Thornburgh, Ordinary Girls (HarperTeen, 6/4)
Stacia Tolman, The Spaces Between Us (Henry Holt BYR, 7/23)
Danielle Vega, The Haunted (Razorbill, 6/4)
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/11)
Ria Voros, The Center of the Universe (Kids Can Press, 4/2)
Mary Weber, To Best the Boys (Thomas Nelson, 3/19)*
Jacqueline West, Last Things (Greenwillow, 5/7)
Kevin Wignall, When We Were Lost (Jimmy Patterson, 6/4)
Jen Wilde, Going Off Script (Swoon Reads, 5/21)
Natalie Williamson, Rules We’re Meant to Break (Swoon Reads, 6/11)
Sara Wolf, Find Me Their Bones (Entangled: Teen, 6/4)
Nonfiction
Michael Bennett, Sarah Bennett, and Bridget Gibson (Illustrated by), Ann Bausum, Life Sucks: How to Deal with the Way Life Is, Was, and Will Always Be Unfair (Penguin Workshop, 4/9)
Alex Bertie, Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard (Little Brown BFYR, 5/14)
Sean Cisterna, Always Smile: Carley Allison’s Secrets for Laughing, Loving and Living (Kids Can Press, 5/7)
Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition) (Philomel, 5/7)
Jeffrey Kluger, Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time (Philomel, 5/7)
Nicola Morgan, Positively Teen: A Practical Guide to a More Positive, More Confident You (Poppy, 7/16)
Anna Crowley Redding, Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World (Feiwel & Friends, 7/2)
Jesselyn Silva, My Corner of the Ring (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR, 6/4)
