- After Life by Gayle Forman: Amber bikes home one spring, seven years after she died after being hit by a car while riding that bike, and her return impacts those around her as she struggles to learn how and why she got a second chance.
- Better than Revenge by Kasie West: When seventeen-year-old Finley discovers her boyfriend Jensen used her pitch for their school's podcast team, she plots revenge while unexpectedly discovering her talent for football and a deeper connection with Jensen's rival, Theo.
- Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon: River Langston-Lee dumps his girlfriend, quits his job at his parents’ cafe and gets a job at a failing Korean cafe working with grumpy goth Sarang Cho, in an enemies-to-lovers coffee shop romance.
- Brewed with Love by Shelly Page: Teen witch Sage teams up with her former best friend and first crush, Ximena, to prevent her family's apothecary from falling to the competition.
- Build a Girlfriend by Elba Luz: Eighteen-year-old Amelia revisits her past relationships to break her family's relationship curse, become the ideal girlfriend, and seek revenge on the ex who broke her heart, only to face unexpected complications along the way.
- First Love Language by Stefany Valentine: Adopted Taiwanese American Catie Carlson yearns to understand more about her culture and biological mother and offers to teach a co-worker how to date in exchange for learning Mandarin, in a story about grief, family and following one’s heart.
- Love on Paper by Danielle Parker: Mary Decanso and Caleb Bernard are two nepo baby writers attending an exclusive writers retreat who are paired up in a romance writing competition and must work through writer’s block to create their own love story.
- Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia: Named in the will of a wealthy man as potential beneficiaries, a group of teenagers must solve a murder to win the magical inheritance.
- On the Wings of La Noche by Vanessa L Torres: Seventeen-year-old Noche, who serves as an avian guide to the afterlife, suffers inner turmoil between falling for a new boy in town and letting go of her late girlfriend's soul.
- The Afterdark by E. Latimer: Northcroft is an elite boarding school with a deadly secret. Each night as the bell tolls and the shutters slam down, cutting off the outside world, the Afterdark descends, turning the surrounding old growth forest into a macabre copy of itself. A negative photograph crawling with horrors. Evie Laurent is certain of one thing from the moment she sees Holland Morgan on the front steps of Northcroft: she wants to know everything there is to know about her. But there are some things about Evie herself that are better kept secret. Especially the fact that she let her sister drown. And that it's getting harder to ignore her dark impulses . . . Holland Morgan knows falling for Evie is just one more terrible choice in her long history of terrible choices. The problem is, she's not sure she cares. As attraction turns slowly to obsession, they find themselves playing a dangerous game. Something out there is calling to each of them. Beckoning to the shadows within. Do they fight the call and protect one another, or answer and embrace the darkness?
- The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C Parker: Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Tru’s parents alive, but moments before their murder, Tru’s mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, she’s still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that she’s balancing high school with knife and stealth training (while crushing on her BFF’s older sister). When assassins interrupt a mundane babysitting job booked through BountyApp—where lethal hunters find work and babysitters for their kids—Tru flees with a one-year-old strapped to her chest and spiraling questions: Who killed her parents? Whom can she trust? What does it mean to be a bastion? And is it ever OK to kiss a girl who’s trying to hunt you down?
- The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold: In a dystopian world devastated by The Storm, seventeen-year-old Liz finds refuge in her old bookstore, but when Maeve breaks in seeking shelter from another impending storm, the two confront their secrets and inner demons as they fight for their lives.
- The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley: Nineteen-year-old Sarah, a princess of the Egbado Clan until the British Crown kidnapped her, wants revenge against her godmother, Queen Victoria, so she aligns herself with a crime lord, in a historical thriller inspired by true events.
- The Rival by Emma Lord: Academic rivals Sadie and Seb continue their competition into college, vying for a writing staff position and falling for each other along the way.
- This Is the Year by Gloria Mu̜oz: Seventeen-year-old Julieta is grieving her twin sister’s death and her Florida home crumbling under climate disaster when she joins a program enlisting teens to establish humanity’s first extraterrestrial settlement, in a story told in prose and verse.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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