New Release Tuesday: YA New Releases October 27th, 2026

Young Adult New Releases October 27th, 2026

As October comes to a close there are still thrillers a plenty, and creepy plots to devour all year long, you know, if that is your vibe! Check out most of today’s YA new releases below and if you plan on adding any to your personal library we have some independent affiliates we work with Libro.fm for all your audiobooks, and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions!

What Rough Beast

by Mindy McGinnis
Published by: HarperCollins
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Horror, Paranormal, Thriller, Young Adult
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Long-held grudges and ancient evils come to roost in this psychological, speculative horror that's Don't Let the Forest In meets Stranger Things.

Nothing stays buried forever...

Ava learned the hard way that speaking up means being shut out. A social outcast, she finds comfort in her job at a wildlife rehabilitation center, surrounded by the injured, the damaged, and the lame. Best of all, the work distracts her from the night that changed her life—and the boy she holds responsible for it.

Micah knows he’s not a good guy. His past is littered with mistakes, accidents, and things he’d rather forget. But feeling guilty and accepting punishment are two different things. He doesn’t know which is worse—the weight of what he’s done… or the growing feeling that it’s all about to be dragged into the light.

Hailey will do whatever it takes to rise up from her life of abject poverty. The biggest weapon she has is her looks, and she’ll use it to get what she wants—the richest boy in town. When Ava’s claims threaten their relationship, Hailey knows she must silence her—maybe forever.

When Ava unknowingly awakens an entity that has been biding its time underground, the three teens will be brought together on a night when something wants to be born and only a death will balance the scales.

Scorpion Deep

by C.G. Drews
Published by: Feiwel and Friends
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Horror, Young Adult
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CG Drews, New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.

The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.

In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.

To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.

But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.

You're No Better

by Andrew Joseph White
Published by: Peachtree Teen
on October 27, 2026
Genres: LGBTQIA+, Thriller, Young Adult
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Bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with another horrific YA thriller: a profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world—and himself—that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him.

Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself.

Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s childhood—that he wasn’t just a witness to his father’s brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesn’t let them help with his investigation? They’ll tell everyone.

Forced to confront his past, Morgan’s ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mother’s temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach . . .

You're No Better is a gritty and unapologetic coming-of-age suspense about teens who grew up surrounded by cruelty and are clawing their way to adulthood the only way they know how.

For Ever More (Never Ever After, #2)

by Sue Lynn Tan
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Mythology/Folklore, Romance, Young Adult
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The breathtaking sequel to the New York Times bestselling Never Ever After, this epic fantasy finds Yining on the run and fighting to save her family and her kingdom.

Order now and receive the SPECIAL FIRST EDITION while supplies last--featuring a designed case cover under the jacket and illustrated endpapers, in addition to shiny foil and embossing. This must-have special edition is only available in the limited first printing.

After the explosive events of Never Ever After, Yining flees the Iron Mountains with her unlikely allies, seeking the truth about her newfound powers amid the secrets surrounding her ancestral home. But with a traitorous queen ruling the Three Kingdoms from a stolen throne, nowhere is truly safe, and Yining must decide whom to trust to keep her family--and her heart--from harm.

Mortal Things

by Marie Lu
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
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Set in a world of insatiable immortals, their eternal rivalries, and the humans trapped between them, MORTAL THINGS is a cinematic and sweeping new fantasy from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marie Lu, perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter and A Darker Shade of Magic.

Rose Lin Fairchild didn’t believe in gods, but one chose her anyway.

Rose despises Raven, the god of Death. His mysterious commands. His mercurial moods. His closed heart. But most of all, she loathes that she was forced to become his Harbinger, a human mercenary tasked to fulfil their god’s every want and whim. Still, she would do it again, because being a Harbinger is the only thing keeping her best friend alive.

When a murder rocks the world of the gods, Rose is suddenly thrust into the immortal realm's spotlight as Raven's heir. This is her chance to free her friend once and for all. But in order for her to ascend, she must first prove herself to the other gods—and the one person standing in her way is a fellow Harbinger.

Étienne Beauchard is notorious for his sly wit and charming good looks. Rose can’t stand that he is the one assigned to test her abilities, but as their initial hostility evolves into an intense attraction, they find that the gods’ secrets go deeper than they ever expected. Something is wrong in the immortal world, something that threatens to break their bond and engulf them all in war.

As Rose and Étienne fight to uncover the truth and trust each other with their hearts, they realize that everything hinges on the same How far would you go to save the person you love?

Mark of the Warrior (Breathmarked, #2)

by Shannon Lee, Fonda Lee
Published by: Wednesday Books
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mythology/Folklore, Young Adult
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In the explosive finale to the instant New York Times bestseller Breath of the Dragon, a young warrior fights to reunite his family and the realm.

Two brothers. Two nations. One destiny.

Exiled as a traitor after the Guardian’s Tournament, Li Jun has vowed to retrieve the stolen Scroll of Heaven and to honor his father’s dying request: find his mother and twin brother, Sai.

Fleeing into the East in search of their friend Ren, Jun and his longtime rival Yin Yue have no choice but to trust the two breathmarked women who saved their lives but who answer to the mysterious and draconian Council of Virtue that tore Jun’s family apart and banished him and his father a decade ago.

Recovering the Scrolls of Heaven or Earth in order to stop the brewing war that threatens to devastate East and West alike isn’t Jun’s only seemingly insurmountable challenge. The twin he was separated from in childhood is now the High Keeper who resides in the Sun Pagoda, protecting the precious Scroll of Earth from all potential enemies…including Jun.

The fate of the entire land hinges on an inevitable reckoning between brothers that will test their skills, their loyalties, and everything they thought they knew about themselves and the nature of destiny.

Snowflakes or Surf Breaks? (Love in Oak Falls)

by Lila Hazell
Published by: Holiday House
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Young Adult
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A cozy, swoony holiday romance with a Sliding Doors twist, perfect for readers of Jenny Han and Lynn Painter. Like Mint to Be for this holiday season!

One season, two choices for love…

Cassie’s small town is at its best in the holiday season. Think twinkling lights, cheery shops, skating under the stars, and curling up by a fire with a steaming mug of hot chocolate. It would be just about perfect… if Cassie didn’t feel so left behind.

All of her friends are off at college, and she’s counting the days till they – and her on again/off again boyfriend Tom – finally come home for Christmas break. Cassie’s been hoping for a romantic reunion under the mistletoe, so she’s crushed when she discovers Tom has met someone else at school.

Then Cassie’s dad offers to buy her some last-minute tickets to visit him in Australia, and the rest of the book unfolds in alternating chapters where Cassie makes one choice or another about her holiday plans.

In one strand, she stays home to try to win Tom back -- and get to know her cute new friend Jack a little better, too. In the other strand, Cassie spends Christmas in Australia, learning to surf and enjoying barbecues on the beach. If only Lucas, the son of her dad's friends, would stop acting so superior, maybe she'd even have a chance at holiday romance...

Each potential choice leads Cassie to love, and the final chapter is classic happily ever after.

Spellwright

by Heather Kassner
Published by: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
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A plucky writer of spells must team up with a frustratingly charming magician to uncover the secrets of a dangerous grimoire—and maybe open her heart in the process—in this light academia young adult romantasy perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson.

No one is allowed past the gargoyles guarding the doors of Thistledown Library. Spellwright Fia Ives should know—for months she’s hoped to be admitted inside to find a magic powerful enough to locate her late mother’s spellbook. One midnight, she finally breaks in, only to discover three mysterious figures already searching the forbidden stacks.

When the library announces the theft of a dangerous grimoire, suspicion falls on Fia. The only way to clear her name is to root out the thieves she spied that night. However, solving a magical theft isn’t easy while running her inherited spellshop alone. So Fia hires the first person who applies to help—the insufferably charming Penbrook Madbury, who is as sleepy as a cat and just as stubborn. Fia isn’t sure she can trust him with her reckless plan (let alone her beloved shop), but there’s something about the secretive magician that tempts her to try.

As a strange magic curls through town, Fia must risk her own heart to unravel a string of curses before they claim both her and Penbrook. And if some of those curses require kisses to break them, well, that’s just the whimsy of magic.

Where We Go at Night

by Ikwo Ntekim
Published by: HarperCollins
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Mythology/Folklore, Paranormal, Retellings, Thriller, Young Adult
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To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don’t want to be seen.

As far as seventeen-year-old Trixie Godfrey is concerned, her hometown of Woods Crossing would be perfect —if not for the dark world of fae and magic lurking in the shadows. Growing up, her grandfather, Pops, never allowed her to get close to them—those aberrations, Mama used to say.

But on graduation night, when Trixie sneaks home past curfew she witnesses Pops’ brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so inhuman she can no longer avoid the fae. Those without the Sight will blame wild animals, calling Pops’ death an accident, a tragedy, but Trixie knows the truth because she has the Sight. She spent years burying her "gift", but she needs to revive it now.

Determined to get justice for Pops and rid Woods Crossing of its monsters, Trixie ventures into the intriguing but deceitful world of the fae—only to find herself caught in a power struggle between ancient families more terrible and crueler than hers could ever be. Or so she thinks….

• Fae courts and forbidden alliances: Trixie is pulled into a dangerous conflict between the rival Seelie and Unseelie courts, where the lines between friend and enemy blur, and every alliance comes with a hidden cost.
• Slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance: The tension between Trixie and faerie warrior Lariel builds chapter by chapter through mistrust, stolen glances, and reluctant acts of protection—the pull is undeniable long before either admits it.
• Chosen one with a cursed legacy: Trixie carries a rare Second Sight and discovers she is the latest in a bloodline supernaturally bound to the fae through a dark ancestral bargain, making her both powerful and a target.
• Mortal girl in an immortal world: Trixie, a Black teen from small-town South Carolina, is thrust into a glittering, treacherous faerie realm where time bends, glamours deceive, and her humanity is both her greatest vulnerability and greatest weapon.

Christmas Trees & Weak Knees

by Katrina Emmel
Published by: Delacorte Press
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Young Adult
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A cozy YA holiday rom-com set on a snow-dusted Christmas tree farm, where a girl who walked away from music and a country star nursing writer’s block find themselves writing songs—and maybe falling in love—just in time for the holidays.

In my heart is a Christmas tree farm...

Paisley Morgan thought she had left the music world behind after a disastrous encounter with the band Six String Justice. Now, she's content to spend her days at her family's charming Christmas tree farm, secretly nurturing her songwriting dreams. But when a mysterious musician checks into the farm's on-site studio, her quiet life is turned upside down.

Kash "Money" Murray, fresh from a band breakup and struggling with writer's block, is sent to the farm to find inspiration. Little does he know the farm's enchanting atmosphere and its captivating caretaker, Paisley, will provide more than just a creative spark.

As the holiday season unfolds, Paisley and Kash find themselves drawn together by their shared love of music. Amidst the twinkling lights and festive cheer, they embark on a songwriting journey that could change their lives forever. But when Kash takes a bold step that threatens their budding romance, Paisley must decide if love is worth the risk. Will they find harmony together, or will their duet end before it begins?

Sun Chasers: A Novel

by Kacen Callender
Published by: Amulet Books
on October 27, 2026
Genres: LGBTQIA+, Young Adult
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From bestselling and award-winning author Kacen Callendar comes a tender and moving novel about two boys who find solace in each other while their worlds fall apart, perfect for fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

You stood still. Stared out at the ocean. Like you were searching for something. Maybe the same thing I was searching for, too. Something that belongs in my chest. Warm and bright.

Kole has mastered the art of deflection. He explains away the real reason why he had to move to St. Thomas to live with his father and his new family. He makes excuses for any bruises or limps people notice. He starts dating a girl at his new school to avoid questions about who he’s really attracted to.
But he can’t seem to hide how drawn he is to Gabriel.

Gabriel wishes he could disappear. But everywhere he goes on the island he calls home, he can’t escape the people who misgender him, who threaten him. He’s haunted by the memories of a painful past. And with his single mother barely making ends meet, he knows there’s no hope for a better life after high school.

As Kole and Gabriel slowly start to share their struggles with each other, their connection becomes a lifeline. But can a young love survive in a world determined to tear them down? Are there some wounds that can never be healed?

How the Other Half Kill

by P.C. Roscoe
on October 27, 2026
Genres: Thriller, Young Adult
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A steamy thriller set at an exclusive ski resort in the Swiss Alps where the ultrawealthy’s winter vacation is full of schemes, scandals, and murder. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and older readers who enjoyed The White Lotus.

Reilly is spending the winter looking after ultra-rich guests at a luxury ski resort. But she’s not there for the stunning slopes—she’s there to take revenge on the beautiful socialite she holds responsible for the death of her best friend.

The one distraction she didn’t plan on? Jacob. He’s irresistibly charming and Reilly feels like she could tell him anything. But revealing her true motivations could be even more dangerous than a black diamond run in a blizzard…

When her plan snowballs out of control, will Reilly become the next victim?
Don't miss the companion, How the Other Half Die!