For those of you that love a little young adult fiction in your life, I have compiled a list of some upcoming releases that look particularly good or I know are garnering quite a bit of hype! Their titles all link to their Goodreads page, and just so you know, I shortened the summaries a bit (so if you want the full summary, click the title link!).

APRIL

Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough

Release: April 2, 2018
Synopsis: When Harriet Price risks everything creating a hoax to expose the school’s many problems – with help from notorious bad-girl Will Everheart, no less – she tells herself it’s because she’s seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating. But as Will and Harriet’s campaign heats up, it gets harder for them to remain sworn enemies – and to avoid being caught. 

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Release: April 24, 2018
Synopsis: When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group… Even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways… It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.

MAY

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

Release: May 1, 2018
Synopsis: The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we’d have a High Priestess do some odious ceremony, as lanthe had done the year before. A year. Gods, nearly a year since Rhys had called in his bargain, desperate to get me away from the poison of the Spring Court to save me from my despair.

Puddin’ by Julie Murphy

Release: May 8, 2018
Synopsis: It is a companion novel to Dumplin’, which follows supporting characters from the first book in the months after Willowdean’s star turn in the Clover City pageant. Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream—and to kiss her crush…

My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma

Release: May 15, 2018
Synopsis: To get her Bollywood-like life on track, Winnie will need a little bit of help from fate, family, and of course, a Bollywood movie star. Like an expertly choreographed Bollywood dance scene, Nisha Sharma’s off-beat love story dazzles in the lime light.

JUNE

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

Release: June 5, 2018
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least get some streams on her mixtape… With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it.

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

Release: June 5, 2018
Synopsis: Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family… When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the island—a summer of storms, of love, of salt—Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms.

JULY

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

Release: July 3, 2018
Synopsis: The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents’ tragic deaths left her alone on theInfinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth… Romy begins exchanging messages with the captain of theEternity, another ship that will be joining the Infinity, and their friendship breathes new life into her world. But as the Eternity gets closer… suddenly, there are worse things than being alone.

Contagion by Erin Bowman

Release: July 24, 2018
Synopsis: After receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons…and dead bodies. As they try to piece together who—or what—could have decimated an entire operation, they discover that some things are best left buried—and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Release: July 10, 2018
Synopsis: Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold. But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand.

Any of these novels getting added to your TBR??

A.S. Thornton

A.S. Thornton has evolved from book blogger to author with a particular fondness for writing forbidden love in ancient deserts. When not writing, she’s caring for dogs and cats as a veterinarian. You’ll never find animals at the center of her writing, though, because those fictional worlds don’t have veterinarians and her literal brain can’t accept that the poor critters would be without parasite prevention. Thornton’s debut, DAUGHTER OF THE SALT KING is available wherever books are sold.