Author Interview: The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels Being xennial/elder millennial queers, we grew up on the edges of the AIDS crisis, old enough to feel its shadow but young enough that much of what happened was filtered through adult commentary, news […]
Young Adult New Releases April 21st 2026 Where has April gone?! Anyways today we are celebrating most of today’s YA New Releases. We hope you check out our indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – if you plan to purchase & all sales help indie bookstores!
Feature: We Were Warned: YA Dystopian Fiction and the World We are Living in Now There is a genre of book that an entire generation devoured in their yound adult years, stayed up too late finishing, and then set aside when they got older because the moment passed and so […]
Young Adult New Releases April 14th 2026 Happiest of Book Birthday’s to today’s YA books hitting the shelves! We love seeing them all in one space, and we hope that helps you in your decisions on what new books to add to your shelves & TBRs! We hope you check […]
Book Recommendations: The Cost of the Bargain Two books landing this April from Page Street YA are doing something that goes past their gorgeous covers and their queer romances, though they have all of those things. The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki releases April 21st and The Redwood […]
Young Adult New Releases April 7th 2026 Happy April! Today we have a lot of Book Birthday’s to to celebrate! Check out most of today’s YA books hitting the shelves below! We hope you check out our indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – if you plan to purchase & all sales help indie […]
Cover Crush: The Verdant Cage by Jess Lourey The Verdant Cage follows Rose Allgood, a seventeen-year-old apothecary who has spent her whole life inside a walled community that everyone calls home and no one questions. Until her mother is murdered and her brother is the one who gets blamed for […]
Feature: Fear Street, Then and Now: How The Prom Queen Found Its Way Back When a glossy new edition of Fear Street: The Prom Queen showed up from Simon & Schuster (TY!), I was transported right back to my teen years (ahem, that’s in the late 1900s for folks who […]
Young Adult New Releases March 31st 2026 It’s Tuesday, new release Tuesday! Time to wish a Happy Book Birthday to today’s new releases check out most of today’s YA books hitting the shelves below! We adore our amazing indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – we are all for the non-billionaire affiliates over here!
Audiobook Review: Why This Wretched Beauty is the Dorian Gray Retelling We Were Always Waiting For Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 and was immediately condemned for it. Critics called it unclean, effeminate, contaminating. The original magazine version had already been edited without his knowledge to […]