39 of the Most Anticipated YA Books for the Rest of the Year

The fall season is lining up nicely for YA enthusiasts, with several highly anticipated sequels slated for the shelves. Kerri Maniscalco closes out her Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy, while Tracy Deonn follows up her hit debut, Legendborn, with the pulse-pounding Bloodmarked. 

Variety in genre and theme is pretty impressive this year, too, with lots of designations flipping and folding in on one another. For instance: Chloe Gong mixes historical drama and speculative fiction in 1930s Shanghai with Foul Lady Fortune. Courtney Summers brings feminist themes and a queer POV to mystery-thriller traditions with I’m the Girl. And Aiden Thomas adds Mexican mythology to the now-familiar high-stakes tournament in The Sunbearer Trials.
 
For fans of buffet-style short fiction, watch for several themed anthologies, including Eternally Yours (paranormal romance) and The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror.
 
To measure relative anticipation, the books gathered here are based on early reviews, author followings, and those titles showing up most frequently on readers’ Want to Read shelves. Each book also has above a 3.5 star average rating (at the time this article was written). Feel free to continue the brainstorming or make your own recommendations in the comments section. And, as ever, scroll over the covers to learn more about each book, and be sure to add what catches your eye to your own Want to Read shelf!

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