(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (November 4th, 2025)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

A Dark Forgetting by Kristen Ciccarelli

Seven Deadly Thorns by Amber Hamilton

Fallen City by Adrienne Young

Never Seen the Stars by Kate Korsh

Coldwire by Chloe Gong

Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson

Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington

The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

Gilded in Vengeance by Lyssa Mia Smith

The Fangirl Project by Beth Reekles

A Fate So Cold by Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman

Fade Into You by Amber Smith & Sam Gellar

A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow by Kendall Kulper

Under A Fire-Red Sky by Geraldine McCaughrean

Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko

The Writing Room by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Reasons We Break by Jesmeen Kaur Deo

Hear Her Howl by Kim DeRose

We're Not Safe Here by Rin Chupeco

New Sequels:

Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark Trilogy #2) by Tigest Girma

A Queen's Match (A Queens Duet #2) by Katharine McGee

We Fell Apart (We Were Liars #3) by E. Lockhart

Starchaser (Nightweaver #2) by R.M. Gray

Beautiful Brutal Bodies (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces #2) by Linda Cheng

Witchlight (The Witchlands #5) by Susan Dennard

The Same Backward As Forward (The Inheritance Games #0) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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📘The Unlikely Housemate (The Improbable Neighbor Series – Book 1) ✨

He’s popular. She’s not. And sharing a house? Definitely not part of her high school survival plan.

Chrissy Lang has one goal for junior year: stay invisible. With Page Buchanan—the resident queen bee and self-proclaimed nerd hunter—lurking around every corner, blending in feels like the only safe option.

But everything changes when Theo Pearson, the most popular guy in school (and Page’s ultimate crush), ends up living with Chrissy’s family. 👀

Suddenly: • People notice her. • Page is not happy. • Theo is way too charming. • And Chrissy’s heart? Yeah… it’s confused.

Now she has a choice: Hide in the shadows like always—or step into the spotlight and figure out who she really wants to be. 💛

Perfect for fans of clean, sweet, slow-burn, opposites-attract romance with all the butterflies.📚

Celestin Tian is the kind of guy who fails at everything: school, cooking, life… you name it. Constantly messing up, he’s about as far from a hero as you can get.

Then, out of nowhere, a glowing scroll delivered by a very impatient eagle changes everything. He’s been accepted into OMGS — Olympus Mighty Gods’ School, a divine academy where gods recognize heroes, what is called mythology & history is here in the flesh!

Celestin must survive, find his place, & maybe prove that even a failure can rise to greatness.

It's finally here! Almost! Now called The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, the adaptation of Sally Green's Half Bad trilogy lands on Netflix on 28 October 2022.

Click here for the first ★★★★★ review and a breakdown of the characters you're going to love and hate and those you'll be surprised by:

You know how it feels when you read a book that comes out of nowhere and you’re totally blown away? And then that author comes out with their second book and you both really, really want to read it and you’re also afraid it won’t live up to the experience of the first? That was me with Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley. I’d listened to Boulley’s first novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, and I loved that it was so different from anything I’d read before. The audio book gave me an aural experience of the Anishinaabemowin language that I certainly wouldn’t have had just by reading the book. It was so many things at once — a crime novel, a bittersweet romance, a coming of age story of a young woman with a foot in two very different cultures, trying to reconcile what she can, let go of what she can’t. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and informative without being preachy. So when Warrior Girl Unearthed came out this month, I felt an internal hesitation before opening it up. One night I decided to just read a chapter or two, see what I thought. The next thing I knew I was half way through the book.

You don’t need to have read Firekeeper’s Daughter to enjoy Warrior Girl Unearthed, but it is set ten years later in the same community. Our protagonist, Perry Firekeeper-Birch, is the young cousin of Daunis Fontaine, the central character of Firekeeper’s Daughter. Perry is all set to have a summer of slack in 2014, but an incident with a bear, her car, and a metal fence leaves her in debt to her Aunt Daunis, who signs her up for the last spot in the Kinomaage Summer Internship program. Perry is assigned to work with Cooper Turtle, the supervisor of the tribal museum, and through his mentorship begins to learn about the ancestral remains languishing in universities and museums (despite laws requiring their cataloging and repatriation to the tribes they belonged to). Perry’s sense of justice is kindled and then put to the test as she learns the extent to which artifacts are being withheld from their original tribes. In the meantime, women from the community are going missing and Perry doesn’t want to be next.

This was just as compelling a read as Firekeeper’s Daughter. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. And, like with Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley is a master at giving the reader a window into Perry’s life as a mixed Native and Black young woman — life within the tribal community of Sault Ste Marie and Sugar Island — and the weighty history that each person carries with them. I felt like I learned alongside Perry about the history of ancestral remains and the efforts of tribes to repatriate the bones and the cultural materials of their people. I felt Perry’s frustration at the way in which people and institutions refuse to respect those bones and artifacts. Boulley includes a list of resources at the end so the reader can dive deeper into the original materials Cooper assigns Perry to read in the book. And the book itself is gorgeous, with a cover designed by Caldecott winner Michaela Goade (We Are Water Protectors). Island Books also has a limited supply of beautiful page overlays from Goade to enjoy as a gift with purchase!

✩🏴‍☠️🌊Review:

Get ready to set sail and embark upon the show-stopping sequel to “Defy the Night.”

For the first time, the reader is able to venture beyond the Kingdom of Kandala aboard the “Dawn Chaser.” Kemmerer immerses the reader in in the environment on the pirate ship by using language fit for sea life, nautical terms, and detailed imagery. 

Kemmerer is also thoughtful in the worldbuilding of the Kingdom of Ostriary. Through Captain Rian Blakemore’s character, the reader learns about the political atmosphere surrounding the chain of six islands and the infighting over the throne. 

Blakemore also serves as a source of tension for Tessa and Corrick’s relationship. Blakemore manipulates Tessa into seeing only the evil in Corrick, who is struggling to choose his true self over the cruel persona he has adopted for so long. With so many people influencing their perceptions of each other, Tessa and Corrick's love is put to the test overseas like never before. 

Once again, the reader alternates between Tessa and Corrick’s perspectives with the addition of a new viewpoint: “The Outlaw.” The Outlaw’s point-of-view allows the reader to keep up with Kandala while Tessa and Corrick are abroad. The mystery surrounding his identity also keeps the reader on their toes and contributes to the story’s wild twists and turns. 

While there are only three perspectives featured, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing side characters like Quint, King Harristan, and Rocco play larger roles in this novel. I look forward to seeing how they fit into the final book in the “Defy the Night” trilogy and how Tessa and Corrick will recover from the explosive way “Defend the Dawn” ended!

➤ 4.25 stars

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