Earlier this year I put together a list of 21 books I’ll be giving priority to in the first half of 2021… But as I started to realize I was hardly picking up any young adult reads, I decided to put together another list with only YA books. Fingers crossed this will actually make me pick up more of them in the near future!
# YA PRIORITY TITLES #
- A Vow So Bold And Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer (416 pages) (published in 2021)
- Wolf By Wolf by Ryan Graudin (388 pages) (published in 2015)
- Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles (464 pages) (published in 2020)
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff (448 pages) (published in 2016)
- On The Come Up by Angie Thomas (464 pages) (published in 2019)
- Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed (448 pages) (published in 2020)
- All About Mia by Lisa Williamson (336 pages) (published in 2017)
- The How And The Why by Cynthia Hand (464 pages) (published in 2019)
- I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver (329 pages) (published in 2019)
- A Quiet Kind Of Thunder by Sara Barnard (307 pages) (published in 2017)
- Moonrise by Sarah Crossan (400 pages) (published in 2017)
- A List Of Cages by Robin Roe (310 pages) (published in 2017)
- People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins (431 pages) (published in 2018)
- Dear Justyce by Nic Stone (196 pages) (published in 2020)
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (473 pages) (published in 2019)
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (370 pages) (published in 2020)
- The Librarian Of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe (429 pages) (published in 2012)
- The Leaving by Tara Altebrando (421 pages) (published in 2016)
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silver (397 pages) (published in 2009)
- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (388 pages) (published in 2019)
Have you read any of these titles yourself or do you want to? Any titles I should give extra priority to?
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Wolf by Wolf is on my list of books I keep meaning to read but haven’t gotten around to.
I’ve read and would recommend Nevernight, Yes No Maybe So and On The Come Up. I would maybe suggest holding off on Aurora Rising until the full trilogy is out. I really wish I’d done that.
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Same here! I’ve been meaning to read Wolf By Wolf for a long time now.
And I didn’t know that about Aurora Rising! I thought the series was already completed… I’m definitely going to wait until the final book is published, and especially since there isn’t even an expected publish date yet. xD
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The How & the Why is the only one I read on here, but it was one of my favorite books in 2019. I loved it so much. I hope you do, too!
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I loved her The Last Time We Say Goodbye, so I can’t wait to finally read it!
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I still have to read that one.
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A Vow is on my TBR for next month, shout if you want to buddy read 😄
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I’m not sure if it would be the best buddy read, as a lot of people seem to complain about how disappointing it is… xD Do you still want to read The Starless Sea? We can do that in April if you want… We might try and go on vacation somewhere in March so I probably won’t have time next month.
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Oh help, I really wanted this trilogy to end with a bang, ya know. Here’s hoping we like it better!
Yeah sure, we can read The Starless Sea 😊
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Fingers crossed! The reviews complain about an open ending and overall disappointment, so I hope things won’t be too bad. xD
The Starless Sea sounds good then! Unless you prefer a King title instead?
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Hoping to read Vow soon, I’ll let you know where I landed 😊 No, The Starless Sea would be better, my TBR shelves have shrunken (I mean it couldn’t possibly be me adding too many books to them 🤷♀️🙊) so getting rid of a rather chunky book would be good (and my Kings are ebooks) 😂
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Looking forward to that! And nasty shelves for shrinking on you. xD The Starless Sea it is then! 😉
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A lot of these are high on priority list as well! One I have read though is A Vow So Bold and Deadly and I loved it, hope you do too!
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I’m really trying to read On The Come Up this year too. It’s one of my backlist priority reads.
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Same here! I’ve been saying I need to read it for ages, but somehow I never actually do pick it up.
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The Gilded Wolves is clever and so well written. A few more here which I’d really like to read. Good luck with getting through them all!
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I’m glad to hear that! I can’t wait to finally get to The Gilded Wolves.
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Oooh great list! I’m making Where Dreams Descend a priority too. I am hoping to read it this month or next month since I got an ARC on Netgalley so long ago and I need to finally read/review it. I loved Jasper Jones so much! I wish I would have liked People Kill People, but sadly it just was not for me.
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Where Dreams Descend sounds SO good! I hope we will both enjoy it… And I think it was actually you that made me add Jasper Jones to my TBR; I’m looking forward to finally read it soon!
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