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The Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2018
Get ready, young adult readers! This year's list of buzzworthy books will be sure to steal hearts and send pulses racing.
Whether you're navigating the corridors of high school or the courts of the high fae, there's a little something for everyone in 2018—and this list is only the tip of the iceberg. From Angie Thomas' On the Come Up to the final installment of Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series, it's clear that young adult authors, both beloved and new, are raising the bar with lush worlds and diverse heroes.
Click on the covers below to find out when these titles are coming to a bookstore near you. Don't forget to add your favorites to your Want-to-Read shelf.
Whether you're navigating the corridors of high school or the courts of the high fae, there's a little something for everyone in 2018—and this list is only the tip of the iceberg. From Angie Thomas' On the Come Up to the final installment of Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series, it's clear that young adult authors, both beloved and new, are raising the bar with lush worlds and diverse heroes.
Click on the covers below to find out when these titles are coming to a bookstore near you. Don't forget to add your favorites to your Want-to-Read shelf.
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Which YA books are you excited to read this year? Share them with us in the comments!
Check out more recent blogs:
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2017's 20 Most-Read Books on Goodreads
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Check out more recent blogs:
The Best Young Adult Book Covers of 2017
2017's 20 Most-Read Books on Goodreads
Read More This Year with the 2018 Reading Challenge
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Jan 04, 2018 08:58AM
The Belles, Children of Blood and Bone, Poet X, and Leah on the Offbeat sit on my TBR. I cannot wait.
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Heart of Iron isn't a standalone, I think it has a sequel coming up!
Just looking to them right now is making me tear of joy💖
Don't forget Sightwitch by Susan Dennard is coming out February 13th!!!
Thunderhead... need I say more?
Three fates divide - Carve the mark was amazing, but I know there is a sad ending awaiting us...
I'm excited, there's SO MUCH potential in the new series and standalones, but I'll never touch anything by Maas again.
This year is gonna be a great year for releases yasss!!
I CAN'T WAIT.ALL THESE ARE SO AMAZING.
In my opinion, last year (at least for me) wasn't a great year for books. Yeah, there were some awesome books, but I think that this year will be the best! I'l especially excited for A Court of Frost and Starlight, Thunderhead, and the Case for Jamie. K8 and Wilde, I kind of agree with you- Sarah J. Mass' books were great... then they kind of got worse with age. I don't know, maybe that's just me. But I think I'll give her another try. Also with Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments (and spin offs)- they were okay in the begin, but now... I don't know. And Restore Me- I don't love the series (most of my friends shall now and try to kill me), but I don't know! There's a whole new year in front of us- anything could happen!
BUT WOOP FOR 2018!
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A Court of Frost and Starlight! Thunderhead! War Storm! And the other untitled Sarah J Maas book! Can't wait!
Nixonmat000 wrote: "Thunderhead... need I say more?"OMG YES
I want a sequel to The Flame in the Mist!
I can't wait to read A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan coming out on August 14!
I had no idea Morgan Matson was writing a new book!! I’M SO EXCITED!!!
Poet X sounds up my alley. Had no clue about the new Becky Albertalli book, excited.
Laurie wrote: "I want a sequel to The Flame in the Mist!"Smoke in the Sun June 2018 :)
Wilde wrote: "K8 wrote: "I'm excited, there's SO MUCH potential in the new series and standalones, but I'll never touch anything by Maas again."Me either."
Aww! Why not? I love her books!
I've been waiting for that Tamora Pierce book for OVER A DECADE gimme gimme gimme 😭
WARNER IS BACK! that is all i can say 🔥😘👌🏾🔥😍😍😍😍
Richelle Mead's The Emerald Sea, the last book in her The Glittering Court series. Tamsin's story has been the biggest mystery.
It's a no brainer: TOG 7 obviously. Also A court of Frost and Starlight. And Catwoman. Don't forget a queen of air and shadow.So TOG7 is the most anticipated books of mine and the rest come later (in whatever order)
Definitely excited for Tempests and Slaughter - I've been waiting a very long time for Numair to get his own series! Also excited for The Belles and Sightwitch - my 2018 TBR just keeps growing and growing.....
Super hyped for The Belles, Dread Nation, The Poet X and Heart of Iron!This reminded me to read my ARC of The Astonishing Color of After :)
Laurie wrote: "I want a sequel to The Flame in the Mist!"Wait no longer:)
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Delia wrote: Aww! Why not? I love her books!"At least in terms of the ToG series, at some point (and I don't hate myself enough to reread them and find the exact point, but common opinion is around book 3 or 4) they stopped being slow-paced fantasy novels and became a channel for the author's self-indulgent whims. Despite a length of over 200k, Empire of Storms had next to no actual plot. (If it had a plot, the "twist" at the end wouldn't have worked.) The majority of EoS consisted of severely bloated romantic sub-plots, which were contrived, suddenly graphic in comparison to previous installations and unnecessary.
From what I've heard, Tower of Dawn and whatever the most recent Court book was are rife with the exact same issues, including lackluster prose and copy+pasted sex scenes which were ridiculous enough to start with.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg of my issues with her and her writing.
You're allowed to love her books or whatever else you want, but I'm not going to bother with her books anymore.
Literally every one of these is in my TBR.
I'm excited about so many of these! Also loving that there are some standalones coming out that are fantasy and really glad that you guys included them on this list!
I'm looking forward to reading several of these books! But I'll name just a few: Children of Blood and Bone, The Belles, and Dread Nation! 📚
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. NonFiction 3 starred reviewsKirkus Reviews starred (August 1, 2017)
In the fall of 2013, on a bus ride home, a young man sets another student on fire.In a small private high school, Sasha, a white teen with Asperger’s, enjoyed “a tight circle of friends,” “blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming,” and invented languages. Sasha didn’t fall into a neat gender category and considered “the place in-between…a real place.” Encouraged by parents who supported self-expression, Sasha began to use the pronoun they. They wore a skirt for the first time during their school’s annual cross-dressing day and began to identify as genderqueer. On the other side of Oakland, California, Richard, a black teen, was “always goofing around” at a high school where roughly one-third of the students failed to graduate. Within a few short years, his closest friends would be pregnant, in jail, or shot dead, but Richard tried to stay out of real trouble. One fateful day, Sasha was asleep in a “gauzy white skirt” on the 57 bus when a rowdy friend handed Richard a lighter. With a journalist’s eye for overlooked details, Slater does a masterful job debunking the myths of the hate-crime monster and the African-American thug, probing the line between adolescent stupidity and irredeemable depravity. Few readers will traverse this exploration of gender identity, adolescent crime, and penal racism without having a few assumptions challenged. An outstanding book that links the diversity of creed and the impact of impulsive actions to themes of tolerance and forgiveness. (Nonfiction. 14-18)
Can’t wait for Dark Tracks by Phillipa Gregory out next month. Number 4 in her Order of Darkness series
The Belles, Catwoman, Leah Off the Beat and The Beauty that Remains all top my list.
I'm excited for a lot, but most of all, SO EXCITED for throne of glass #7 and queen of air and darkness, by my favourite authors ever. I haven't finished ALL the already published throne of glass books as I want to drag them out so It feels like less time to wait, however ive been waiting for QOAAD since LOS came out last year!!
I can't wait for War Storm, the last Red Queen book.More than a year of waiting, and I have so many questions about this world. The feels.....
So happy to see a sequel to “Flame in the Mist”. Definitely on my want to read list.
REAPER AT THE GATES! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my life is complete.
To kill a Kingdom sounds interesting. Can't wait
Dread Nation, The Wicked Deep, Onyx and Ivory and Catwoman are the ones I am most excited for. My Lady Jane, Legendary, Hero at the Fall, and Thunderhead all sound interesting...might read those also.
Excited for these. I want to find a copy of Everless so bad
