As part of the 2018 When Words Collide readers and writers festival in Calgary, I presented my quasi-annual recommendation list of what’s new and notable in young adult literature. By popular request, I share the list here, with the titles linked to online ordering through Owl’s Nest Books.
Thanks for your interest!
The Librarian of Auschwitz
by Antonio Iturbe
Hull Metal Girls
by Emily Skrutskie
Heart of Iron
by Ashley Poston
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
Exo
by Fonda Lee
Tangled Planet
by Kate Blair
The Gallery
by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Live In Infamy
by Caroline Tung Richmond
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
by MacKenzi Lee
That Inevitable Victorian Thing
by E. K. Johnston
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
by F. C. Yee
Burn Baby Burn
by Meg Medina
Recipe For Hate
by Warren Kinsella
Dreamland Burning
by Jennifer Latham
Soldier Boy
by Keely Hutton
The Way Back Home
by Allan Stratton
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Among the Red Stars
by Gwen C. Katz
What the Night Sings
by Vesper Stamper
Ink
by Alice Broadway
The Hearts We Sold
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
The Winnowing
by Vikki VanSickle
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Bull
by David Elliot
Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
We Come Apart
by Sarah Crossan & Brian Conaghan
The Murderer’s Ape
by Jakob Wegelius
Thornhill
by Pam Smy
Akata Witch
by Nnedi Okorafor
The Ruinous Sweep
by Tim Wynne-Jones
Black Chuck
by Regan McDonnell
13 Minutes
by Sarah Pinborough
Ghost Boys
by Shenaaz Nanji
Summerlost
by Ally Condie
Fifteen Point Nine
by Holly Dobbie
The Art of Starving
by Sam J. Miller
Prince of Pot
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Grendel’s Guide to Love and War
by A. E. Kaplan
Fire Song
by Adam Garnet Jones
Refugee
by Alan Gratz
The Luckiest Scar on Earth
by Ana Maria Spagna
Piecing Me Together
by Renee Watson
Release
by Patrick Ness
Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K. Choi
The Lines We Cross
by Randa Abdel-Fattah