Time for some more young adult books for you to enjoy! November 2018 sees the release of some great additions to best-selling series, such as Alison Goodman’s final instalment in her Lady Helen series, to the sequel in Marissa Meyer’s Renegades trilogy. There’s plenty of contemporaries for you to love including Rebecca Barrow’s This Is What It Feels Like and Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Little White Lies. Plus, there’s also Five Feet Apart, which has already been adapted into a film starring Riverdale‘s Cole Sprouse.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us in the comments below which ones you will be checking out!
The Dark Days Deceit by Alison Goodman
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The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen’s demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world. In the final book of the trilogy that began with THE DARK DAYS CLUB and continued with THE DARK DAYS PACT, the intrepid Lady Helen’s story hurtles to a shocking conclusion full of action, heartbreak, and betrayal.
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
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It doesn’t matter what the prize for the Sun City Originals contest is this year. Dia knows that without a band, she hasn’t got a shot at winning. Ever since Hanna’s drinking took over her life and left. It used to be the three of them, Dia, Jules, and Hanna, messing around and making music and planning for the future. But now there’s a baby, a failed relationship, a stint in rehab, all kinds of off beats that have interrupted the rhythm of their friendship. No contest can change that. Right?
Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
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The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles.
Pulp by Robin Talley
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In this novel told in dual narratives, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far we’ve come and how much farther we have to go.
This Splintered Silence by Kayla Olson
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Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first-generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, were killed by a deadly virus. Lindley always assumed she’d captain the Lusca one day, but she never thought that day would come so soon. When a member of the surviving second generation dies from symptoms that look just like the deadly virus, though, Lindley feels her world shrinking even smaller. The disease was supposed to be over; the second generation was supposed to be immune. But as more people die, Lindley must face the terrifying reality that either the virus has mutated or something worse is happening: one of their own is a killer.
The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
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Noah Shaw confesses all in this second novel of a chilling new companion series to Michelle Hodkin’s New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy!
Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Set in the world of debutante balls, grand estates and rolling green hills, Little White Lies combines a charming setting, a classic fish-out-of-water story, and the sort of layered mystery only author Jennifer Lynn Barnes can pull off.
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
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Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. She needs to keep herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardise the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Any Second by Kevin Emerson
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Five years after being kidnapped, Elian’s captor sends him into the mall–with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. Whether it’s chance or fate, Maya keeps Eli from ending them all. And now nothing is the same. Drawn together by their dark pasts, Maya and Eli know it takes only seconds for their entire worlds to change. But time will tell if meeting each other will change them for better or worse.
Mammoth by Jill Baguchinsky
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The summer before her junior year, paleontology geek Natalie Page lands a coveted internship at an Ice Age dig site near Austin. Natalie, who’s also a plus-size fashion blogger, depends on the retro style she developed to shield herself from her former bullies, but vintage dresses and perfect lipstick aren’t compatible with prospecting for fossils in the Texas heat. But nothing is going to dampen Natalie’s spirit — she’s exactly where she wants to be, and she gets to work with her hero, a rock-star paleontologist who hosts the most popular paleo podcast in the world. And then there’s Chase the intern, who’s seriously cute, and Cody, a local boy who’d be even cuter if he were less of a grouch.
The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy Brashear
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Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. Now, film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited. While on set after the scripted nuclear explosion, nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not.
The Resolutions by Mia Garcia
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New Years are for fresh starts, but Jess just wants everything to go back to the way it was. From hiking trips, to four-person birthday parties, to never-ending group texts, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora have always been inseparable—and unstoppable. But now, with senior year on the horizon, they’ve been splintering off and growing apart. And so, as always, Jess makes a plan. She adds a new twist: instead of making their own resolutions, the four friends assign them for each other—dares like kiss someone you know is wrong for you. But not even the best laid plans can take into account the uncertainties of life.
