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YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List

  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations
  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations
  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations
  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations
  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations
  • Blog - In the Classroom - YA Book Recommendations: A Round Up for Your TBR List - ya book recommendations

Looking for some great YA book recommendations you can add to your TBR list or for books you can suggest to your favorite YA readers? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve rounded up some of our best YA book recommendations from the past six months into one easy-to-navigate list. We couldn’t add all our favorites here, so be sure to check out the YA Books section of our website for all our recommendations.

A Page Turner Parade of YA Book Recommendations

Book cover. Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe. "He could charm anyone . . . until now." Award winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager. Image of two teens crossing busy city street walking small black and white dog.
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6 College Novels for Teenagers

What’s more fun to read about as a high school student than preparing to go to college? These six novels each tackle the process of making big decisions about college and the future while coming to terms with all that’s happened (or not happened) in high school.

turn applications in here
YA book recommendations. Image of book cover. New York Times Bestselling Author of The Shatter Me Series Tahereh Mafi. This Woven Kingdom. "In a tale exquisitely crafted, Mafi weaves a spell of destiny and danger, forbidden love and courtly intrigue, magic and revolution." Cassandra Clare #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Last Hours. Gold background with soldier's helmet and chainmail face covering. Red roses woven throughout.
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6 YA Fantasy Books You Need to Recommend on First Chapter Fridays

Many of our most avid readers are drawn to the escape they find in fantasy novels. Spending time with an author as they build an entirely new world, filling it with people, places and experiences, stirs within us feelings of loyalty and devotion not often found in more terrestrial picks.

I’ve had enough of reality
Book cover. Author of the National Bestseller Slay. Brittney Morris, The Cost of Knowing. The past is only half your story. Image of two teen boys looking in opposite directions. One in red, one in blue.
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9 Powerful YA Books about Grief

Books in which a character experiences grief can be healing for students struggling to navigate their own feelings. Even those not trying to manage this powerful emotion benefit from thinking more deeply about our values, the people we love, and how we want to live during the time we have. 

Nothing’s Easy
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Book cover. A New York Times Bestseller. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. "This book is for anyone who has ever loved--in any sense of the word." Emily X.P. Pan, Bestselling author. Four awards seals. Images of two people on a city street at night standing under a streetlight.
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7 Captivating YA Historical Fiction Picks for Your First Chapter Friday

You may learn about these events in history class, but it is through reading about them in historical fiction that we feel their true power and empathize with those who lived through it.

Take me Back in Time
Cover of Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land. Author of National Book Award winner Poet X. Image of two girls split by two airplanes. Girl on left has apartment building in background. Girl on right has palms in background.
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7 Excellent YA Books by Latinx and Hispanic Authors

The Latinx and Hispanic authors on this list are American themselves and often biracial, allowing them to speak to our students’ experiences straddling and blending multiple cultures. As teachers in a predominantly Latinx and Hispanic community, we prioritize finding titles that allow our students to see their own experiences and histories reflected in some of the titles we recommend.

Authentic voices
YA book recommendations. Book cover. #1 New York Times Bestseller Five Feet Apart. Rachael Lippincott, with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Drawing of lungs with flowers.
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20 Young Adult Movies Based on Books

YA books that went on to become movies (or limited series on a streaming platform) are excellent advertisements for books and very persuasive for our YA readers. More often than not, if a student loves the film version of a great story, they will fall in love with the source material too. (Usually. We won’t talk about those rare exceptions . . .)

I didn’t know that was a book

So there you have it, more than 50 (that’s right, 5-0) YA book recommendations you should be sure to check out. What YA books have you been loving recently? Is there a subgenre of YA books we absolutely need to check out? Drop us a line at [email protected] or on Instagram @threeheads.works and let us know.

If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our monthly First Chapter Friday Nearpods: we send out FIVE free quick and easy First Chapter Friday activities each month that we think you and your students will love. Looking for YA books to suggest to your students or use for your own FCF activity? Check out the YA book section of our website for all our recommendations.