Your Next YA Read: Top Picks You’ll Love

03 Oct 2025

Your Next YA Read: Top Picks You’ll Love

Finding your next book just got easier. These YA novels are the perfect blend of timeless favorites and exciting new releases, handpicked to keep you hooked.

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The Spellbinding Magic of You and Me (The Magicals’ Alliance Book 3)

by Timoteo Tong

Release Date: September 16, 2025

Santangelo Lo Geffo, torn between love and destiny, must master his magic to stop the ruthless Máu Rabetica from seizing a sword that could make her Queen of the Gloom. With monsters, war, and secrets closing in, will Santangelo embrace his power—or lose everything?

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Attie’s Amazing Adventures: Tick Tock, Take Charge! (Charms Book Series Book 2)

by Loxley Browne

Release Date: May 11, 2025

Time is running out. Fifteen-year-old Attie thinks she’s just balancing high school, inventions, and a crash course in project management—until a forgotten photograph launches her into a mystery with stakes as high as NASA’s next mission. Tick Tock, Take Charge! kicks off a thrilling adventure where STEM, secrets, and friends collide in a race against time.

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Grim and Oro

by Alex Aster

Release Date: September 30, 2025

True love knows no bounds. This dual-sided volume includes two complete novellas. The first novella—told from Grim’s perspective—gives readers insight into his past: the motivations and events that cemented his fate as Isla’s eventual love interest.

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The Book of Dust: The Rose Field (Book of Dust Volume 3)

by Philip Pullman

Release Date: October 23, 2025

Picking up right where The Secret Commonwealth left off, this story finds Lyra alone in a city haunted by daemons, searching for her beloved Pan. Malcolm Polstead isn’t far behind, searching for Lyra. And they are both racing toward the desert of Karamakan, following the trail of roses said to hold the secret of Dust.

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Make Me a Monster

by Kalynn Bayron

Release Date: September 30, 2025

As a newly certified mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home, her days are not for the faint of heart. Luckily her boyfriend Noah isn’t squeamish, and Meka is finally feeling ready to say the three little words that will change everything.

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Bit

by Michelle Allen Higginbotham

Release Date: September 29, 2025

Bria Chambers thought growing up would be hard enough—juggling family drama, high school pressures, and the pursuit of comedy as a Chicago comedian. But when an unexpected bite pulls her into a world she never asked for, Bria must learn to navigate the sharp edges of new powers, fragile friendships, and the dangerous pull of love.

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