Explore some of the best young adult books publishing in 2025, including mysteries, romances, thrillers and more.

Must-read romance book series Possibly the only unhappy thing about getting to a romance novel’s happily ever after is having ...

The genre has had an exceptional year — one of its best of all time ... Widows are stock characters in romance, but rarely is the experience treated with such brutal depth as in this tale ...

This is usually because we were exposed to the cinematic adaptations before the books, leaving us full of ... of literature which deal with themes of good versus evil, self-acceptance and divine ...

Then there’s queer romance ... books, intersectional marginalized voices are still underrepresented, so it was important to me to include independently published books on this best-of list.