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  • An Interview With Huda Fahmy, Plus Cute YA Books to Read as It Gets Warmer

    An Interview With Huda Fahmy, Plus Cute YA Books to Read as It Gets Warmer
    Apr 23 2025
    Erica gets into some cutesy/cozy YA books, and Kelly speaks to Huda Fahmy about her fictionalized memoir series. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your bibliologist will scour their bookish knowledge to find three reads they think you’ll love. Choose from receiving just the recommendations via email, or opt to have paperbacks or hardcovers delivered right to your door. Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie I Shall Never Fall in Love: A Graphic Novel by Hari Conner If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal Off Menu: A Graphic Novel by Oliver Gerlach, illustrated by Kelsi Jo Silva Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui If You're Not the One by Farah Naz Rishi Huda F Wants to Know by Huda Fahmy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 19 m
  • The Threat of an Exorcism: April's Best YA New Releases

    The Threat of an Exorcism: April's Best YA New Releases
    Apr 9 2025
    Kelly and Erica discuss their most anticipated YA books coming out in April. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your bibliologist will scour their bookish knowledge to find three reads they think you’ll love. Choose from receiving just the recommendations via email, or opt to have paperbacks or hardcovers delivered right to your door. Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News LJ Smith Dies at 66 The Gossip Mill Sunrise on the Reaping sees phenomenal early sales Books Discussed Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick Sunlight Playing over a Mountain by Selina Li Bi We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride The House No One Sees by Adina King Renegade Girls by Nora Neus and illustrated by Julie Robine Get to know Nellie Bly The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum The Payback Girls by Alex Travis The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m
  • "Nothing Is Original" An Interview with Ava Reid — Plus New YA Graphic Novels to Read This Year

    "Nothing Is Original" An Interview with Ava Reid — Plus New YA Graphic Novels to Read This Year
    Mar 26 2025
    Erica gets into some new YA graphic novels that she's excited about, and Kelly interviews YA author Ava Reid about her latest release, the art of homage, and being a life-long Hunger Games fan. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Article discussed Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books Books Discussed Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn Brielle and Bear: Volume 1 Salomey Doku Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries Huda F Wants to Know? By Huda Fahmy Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus, illustrated by Julie Robine Fable at the End of the World by Ava Reid Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi Legend series by Marie Lu Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White The Fever King series by Victoria Lee Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater An Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 6 m
  • That Cover Goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S: YA Books Out in March to TBR

    That Cover Goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S: YA Books Out in March to TBR
    Mar 12 2025
    Kelly and Erica share their picks for the best YA books coming out in March and get into a little adaptation news and horror. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your bibliologist will scour their bookish knowledge to find three reads they think you’ll love. Choose from receiving just the recommendations via email, or opt to have paperbacks or hardcovers delivered right to your door. Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Summer Scares 2025! Forever...the adaptation will hit Netflix in May and it looks amazing Books Discussed They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran Movie mentioned: Beasts of the Southern Wild A Catalog of Burnt Objects by Shana Youngdahl Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao Say a Little Prayer by Jenna Voris Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation by Cara Meredith The House No One Sees by Adina King Messy Roots: A Graphic Novel of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao Kirby’s Lessons for Falling (In Love) by Laura Gao Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle) by Tracy Deonn Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, illustrated by Debbie Fong Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 6 m
  • Book Club Discussion: Sweet Valley High #1, Double Love

    Book Club Discussion: Sweet Valley High #1, Double Love
    Feb 26 2025
    Kelly and Erica discuss the first book of the super-popular 1980s/1990s series Sweet Valley High. We also find out who is more of a Jessica/Elizabeth. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books LA Book Prize finalists announced Books Discussed Double Love (Sweet Valley High No. 1) by Francine Pascal From the ghostwriter On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia The Apothecary Diaries, Vol. 11 by Natsu Hyuuga, illustrated by Nekokurage, translated by Julie Goniwich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 13 m
  • "Books Connect You to a Common Experience": An Interview with Gayle Forman

    "Books Connect You to a Common Experience": An Interview with Gayle Forman
    Feb 19 2025
    Kelly talks with New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman about her new book, about the afterlife, and about the growth and evolution of YA as a category. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed After Life by Gayle Forman Our Town by Thornton Wilder Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin The Everafter by Amy Huntley The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Not Nothing by Gayle Forman How to Read a Book by Monica Wood Lamar Giles on Hey YA When The World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith One Day by David Nicholls Wicked by Gregory Maguire We Need Diverse Books Shoutouts to Lexapro and Zoloft Gayle emailed the following additional recommendations from our segment on books about/related to the afterlife: The In Between by Hadley Vlahos, Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinthi, and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 m
  • Let’s Talk About Demons: February's Best YA Book Releases

    Let’s Talk About Demons: February's Best YA Book Releases
    Feb 12 2025
    Kelly and Erica talk about the YA books out in February they're most excited about...and maybe a demon or two. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Our Book Club Pick for our February 26th episode: Double Love by Francine Pascal (Sweet Valley High #1) Award-Winning YA Books from the ALA Youth Media Awards Adult novels in verse The Rainbow List Malinda Lo's queer YA book counts Books Discussed Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray (S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi Dropping Beats by Nathanael Lessore The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzalez Rose The History of Everything by Victoria Evans Hakutaku by Kouki Ishikawa Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks Nimona by ND Stevenson Emily the Strange by Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner, and Buzz Parker Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham A Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 m
  • Revenge All the Way Down: The Best YA Books Out in January

    Revenge All the Way Down: The Best YA Books Out in January
    Jan 29 2025
    Kelly and Erica discuss a mega list of the best YA books of 2024, the romance bookstore boom of the last few years, and our current book club pick. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News The best of the best YA books for 2024 From The New York Times: Romance Bookstores Are Booming **Book Club Alert**: Make sure to pick up Double Love by Francine Pascal, the first book in the Sweet Valley High series, for our discussion of it on February 25. Books Discussed Build a Girlfriend by Elba Luz The Queen’s Spade by Sarah Raughley Love on Paper by Danielle Parker Dreamover by Dani Diaz Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold A Catalog of Burnt Objects by Shana Youngdahl Truth, Lies, and The Questions in Between by L. M. Elliott The Assassin’s Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, Banned Book Club Devour by Jazmine Joyner, illustrated by Anthony Pugh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 7 m
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