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This week, Tirzah recommends three creepy horror novels set during summer, perfect for reading around the campfire! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power rea...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA books they are super excited about that are coming out the second half of 2023. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Sign up for our new newsletter The Deep Dive. Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is free. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links,...

Erica discusses a few graphic novels she's read lately that highlight and center queer characters. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Subscribe to The Deep Dive! Your first read is free (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers). Sign up here bookriot.substack.c...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some recent queer YA reads for Pride and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Sign up for our new newsletter The Deep Dive. Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is free. This content contains affiliate links....

This week, Tirzah recommends three YA Austen retellings that aren't Pride and Prejudice. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, fea...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some fabulous YA books by Jewish authors for Jewish Heritage Month and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: First Edition podcast News: PEN America and Penguin Random House Sue Florida School District The City...

This week, Erica gets into a manga that takes place on a rural island in Japan and a book where the main character is down bad for her bestie. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Also, check out First Edition! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through thes...

Tirzah and Erica talk about some great books by AAPI authors for AAPI Heritage Month and beyond! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: First Edition podcast News: Seattle Public Library Grants Free Access to Banned Books The Ones We’re Meant to...

This week, Tirzah recommends three YA books about mermaids and merfolk to get you excited for the release of Disney’s live action The Little Mermaid and to celebrate Mer-May! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O’Neal explores the wide bookish w...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some fantastical worlds in YA they’d want to live in versus ones they’d rather not. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter News: Twilight TV Series announced Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerso...

Erica celebrates Arab American History month by sharing some YA books by Arab American authors. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsle...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA novels in verse for National Poetry Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter News: Two more Heartstopper graphic novels The history of YA novels in verse: Sonya Sones, Stop Pretendin...

This week, Tirzah talks about the trend of YA novellas and some recent novellas releases that should be on your radar! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Dis...

Tirzah and Erica discuss the book All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter We Were Liars adaptation  Kodansha launching a manga app this year All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad...

This week Erica discusses some YA graphic nonfiction books that are helping her reach her reading goals. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: Sign up for...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA Shakespeare retellings. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe Twelfth Grade Night, Saving Haml...

This week, Tirzah discusses some of the YA books that are most popular with the teens she works with! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: The Lesbiana’s...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA historical fiction with strong female leads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann Angel Of Greenwood by Randi Pink The Silence of Bones, The Forest of Stolen Girls, and The Red...

Erica discusses some new YA books of different genres by Black authors to have on your radar for the first part of the year. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOO...

Tirzah and Erica discuss some diverse YA romance books to read for the month of love and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: Come Work for us! We’re hiring a Full-Stack Web Developer. Details here. New Twilight books! Highly Suspiciou...

It's the most wonderful time of the year—the ALA Youth Media Awards have been announced! This week, Tirzah takes us through the YA highlights. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affilia...

Erica and Tirzah talk about YA books with great examples of queer friendship. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: Give the gift of TBR! Come Work for us...

Erica talks about a couple YA dystopian novels she’s been into lately. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: Gift TBR! The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Ni...

Tirzah and Erica get all in their fantasy feels and share their favorite YA fantasy. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: Give the gift of TBR! They Both...

This week, Tirzah highlights three new 2023 releases that are all about teen parenthood. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: 16 & Pregnant by Lala Thoma...