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This week, Tirzah talks about two great queer YA classics retellings! 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica discuss romantic YA books of different genres — from mystery to fantasy and beyond. 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Adaptation In Development A first look at the Adaptation of John Green's Turtles All the Way Down Miami-Dade School Asks Parents for Consent for Black History Month Activities 1 in 4 Books Sold in France Are Comics Books Discussed Dangerous Alliance by Jennieke Cohen Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Graceling series by Kristin Cashore Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Before the Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause The King Is Dead by Benjamin Dean Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erica talks about a new book out this week, as well as new historical fiction she's excited about. 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Out of Body by Nia Davenport A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica discuss the ALA Youth Media Awards and some great YA short story collections. 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News This Year’s Winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards Books Discussed Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater The Collectors: Stories edited by A.S. King Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Magic Has No Borders edited by Sona Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed (Ab)Solutely Normal edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Jeff Edwards Study Break edited by Aashna Avachat At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined edited by Dahlia Adler Night of the Living Queers edited by Shelly Page The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell (April 2) The Gathering Dark edited by Tori Bovalino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Tirzah recommends two funny madcap YA mysteries for your TBR! 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica discuss YA nonfiction books that help with different avenues of self-improvement — from becoming more informed to money management. 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. News Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell IA judge block SF 496 Illinois officially only state to ban book bans Books Discussed A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent and other A Quick & Easy Guide To books The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone by Heather McGhee Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon Money Out Loud: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us by Berna Anat, illustrated by Monique Sterling This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky How to Money by Jean Katzky, Kathryn Tuggle, Nina Cosford Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up by Heather Corinna, illustrated by Isabella Rotman Things We Haven’t Said edited by Erin Moulton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erica chops it up with a few new YA books with dragons. 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! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole Murtagh by Christopher Paolini Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica discuss some of their most-anticipated books for 2024 and make some book trend predictions. 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! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. The holidays are here, and we've got three different levels for gifting to suit every budget. Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News My Life with the Walter Boys renewed for season 2 already Book Drama Books Discussed Starcrossed by Elizabeth C. Bunce A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed Into the Sunken City by Dinesh Thiru Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich There is a Door in This Darkness by Kristin Cashore The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton  The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse Poemhood: Our Black Revival, edited by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, and Taylor Byas Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Ayimidi-Ibike and Adiba Jaigirdar Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender First Test: The Graphic Novel by Tamora Pierce, Devin Grayson, and Becca Farrow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica are off this holiday week, but we thought it would be fun to share a rerun of our most anticipated books of 2023, which originally aired on January 4, 2023. Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA books coming out in the first half of 2023 that they're super excited about. 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The 2023 Reading Log! Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert  The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan Break Up From Hell by Ann Davila Cardinal Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood All That’s Left to Say by Emery Lord My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon When the Vibe is Right by Sarah Dass She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran Wolfwood by Marianna Baer The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone by Heather McGee You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron Mysteries of Thorn Manor by  Margaret Rogerson Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica take a look at the best YA books they've read this year, talk adaptation news, and discuss a few things they want to watch for the holidays. 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! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. The holidays are here, and we've got three different levels for gifting to suit every budget. Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Adaptation of Lara Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Donnell is in the works! Books Discussed All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley Invisible Son by Kim Johnson Enter the Body by Joy McCullough  The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyuuga, illustrated by Nekokurage A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis  The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros  Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz Northranger by Rey Terciero, illustrated by Bre Indigo Cat + Gamer Wataru Nadatani The Do-Over by Lynn Painter A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti  The entire Graceling series by Kristin Cashore The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel) by Natsu Hyuuga, illustrated by Touko Shino Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe Accountable by Dashka Slater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Tirzah recommends two books with grumpy/sunshine pairings in YA romance! 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! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Charming as a Verb by Ben Phillipe Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tirzah and Erica discuss the state of YA cozy mysteries and mention a few to TBR. 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! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. The holidays are here, and we've got three different levels for gifting to suit every budget. Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News The best YA audiobooks of 2023 Books and Articles Discussed Diverse Cozy Mysteries Make Room for the New Cozy Mysteries— We Want More The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyuuga and Nekokurage A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee Duels & Deception by Cindy Anstey The Marvelous by Claire Kann Goldie Vance by Hope Larson, illustrated by Brittney Williams Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize by Margot Rabb The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Secret Key by Lena Jones Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price Other authors mentioned: Ally Carter, Nancy Springer, Olivia Twist, Aya de León Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices