Forever YA
May 2025
YA Books for Adults
Royal Heirs Academy
by Lindsey Duga

King Leander Eldana has ruled Ashland for 50 years without naming an heir, requiring his four teenage grandchildren to compete at their glamorous boarding school for the inheritance of the European kingdom, in a novel with secret alliances, enemies-to-lovers romance and revenge. 
Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
by Laura Gao

Graphic Novel. After Kirby Tan breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals she joins the newspaper club, where she meets and falls for astrology-obsessed Bex and then struggles to balance her queer identity with her obligations to family and community. 
The Meadowbrook Murders
by Jessica Goodman

It's Amy and her best friend Sarah's first week of senior year at Meadowbrook Academy, but after Sarah and her boyfriend are murdered in their dorm room and Amy becomes a suspect, the school newspaper editor Liz seeks to uncover the truth. 
This Is the Year
by Gloria Muänoz

Seventeen-year-old Julieta is grieving her twin sister's death and her Florida home crumbling under climate disaster when she joins a program enlisting teens to establish humanity's first extraterrestrial settlement, in a story told in prose and verse.
(S)kin
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi

Fifteen-year-old Marisol, who sheds her skin every new moon and shifts into a fireball witch, is connected by a family secret to 17-year-old Genevieve, who reaches for some memory of her estranged mother, in a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore.
Adult Books for Young Adult Readers
Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

As China's civil war ravages and engulfs their once-privileged lives, four resourceful daughters defy tradition and flee their home as the Communist army closes in, charting a path across a war-torn nation to independence in Taiwan.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djáelâi Clark

When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the ancient city of Tal Abisi upside down, one of the Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Eveen the Eviscerator, highly skilled, discreet and professional, is brought face-to-face with a past she isn't supposed to remember and a vow she can't forget.
The Women
by Kristin Hannah

In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words “Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
I Was a Teenage Slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones

A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians.
How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel
by Kristen Perrin

After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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