The list is here! Our editors have selected the best YA books that came out in 2025. Our list includes some of the most highly anticipated novels from authors we love as well as breakout works with rave reviews. Our tales have romance, dystopia, fantasy, and so much more. Don’t let 2025 come to an end without picking up these great young adult reads.
This year, the winner of the She Reads Best Young Adult Book of 2025 Award is:
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated prequel is finally here, and this time will highlight Haymitch’s story. In honor of the fiftieth Hunger Games, the Capitol reaps twice as many tributes. Haymitch’s worst fears come true when he is ripped from his love and his family in District 12. Despite knowing he has been set up to fail, Haymitch decides to do whatever it takes to fight against his competition inside and outside of the arena.
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And don’t miss out on the rest of our favorite young adult reads from 2025!
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
In this third installment of the Legendborn series, Bree has exiled herself from the Legendborn Order to protect her family from her powers. However, the catch to her decision is an unbreakable bargain to become the new protégé of the Shadow King–a powerful being able to shape shift between the demon underworld, Earth, and the Order. However, even after Bree leaves there is danger everywhere: the Round Table is fractured without a leader, war is on the horizon, Merlins are being kidnapped and killed, and even when Nick gets imprisoned he has demands for the Regents while keeping secrets from the Order.
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A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson
Set in the 1920s in an alternate world where dragons and humans are in a fragile state of peace, Vivien Featherswallow spends the summer at an internship learning dragon languages. That is, until she accidentally starts a civil war. Now her little sister and her parents will die if she does not break the codes between the two sides.
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Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft
Clarion wants to prove herself before her coronation as the new monarch of Pixie Hollow. Luckily, she gets her chance when she hears that a monster from the Winter Wood is making its way to Spring! However, when she gets to the woods she finds Milori instead–a young guardian of the Wood. The two become fast friends while they try to save their lands. Unfortunately, there is a reason Winter and Spring fairies cannot be together, and the cost is more dangerous than anyone imagined.
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I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Jenna is sick of living in her cousin Jessica’s shadow–the perfect student, the beautiful girl, and a Harvard student come fall. Jenna has only ever been the disappointment. But when she makes a desperate wish to become Jessica, it comes true! Does Jenna have what it takes to survive in Jessica’s cutthroat school? And why does no one remember Jenna anymore? Jenna has to decide if it’s worth trading away her artistic talent, her family home, and her crush Aaron to be Jessica Chen.
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Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Evelyn has lived many, many lives, but in every one she is killed before her eighteenth birthday by a demon named Arden. Only now Evelyn likes this life and her little sister who must rely on her to stay alive. In order to save her sister, she vows to break her curse, hunt down that centuries-old supernatural being, and try not to fall in love yet again.
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Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
Dani and Alec are childhood best friends . That is, until Dani must move away and they lose touch. After her parents’ divorce, Dani moves back to Minnesota for her senior year, and only has her sweet, dorky friend to look forward to. But Alec is nothing like his childhood self–he’s a hockey star obsessed with his female fan base. The two are off to an icy start until unforeseen circumstances force them to fake date. The old friends reconnect, and face their true feelings for one another while uncovering complicated family secrets.
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Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
Highly driven junior class president Audre is trying to write a self-help book over the summer to help her get into Stanford. She decides to hire the hot and mysterious new senior Bash to help her complete five crazy dares that will hopefully give her the life experience necessary to write her book. As the summer progresses Audre and Bash struggle to stay professional as their connection becomes hard to ignore.
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Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales
Attending the prestigious Bramppath College on scholarship, talented pianist Danni does not expect to fit in among her fellow students of rich kids and royals. Instead, she catches the eye of Princess Rosemary herself. The two girls have an undeniable connection, but when someone catches them doing something they shouldn’t, Rose’s family threatens to separate them forever. Rose and Danni must decide whether it’s worth staying together and risking the fallout of ruining the crown’s reputation.
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I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins
At the age of fifteen, all members of the Strand family receive a magical power unique to them. These powers are both a gift and a curse–Nell’s sister has music bleed out of her, and her mother’s age changes everyday. When Nell finally turns fifteen her emotions create insects–beautiful, dangerous, and always on display. Grappling with controlling her new power and her mother’s neglect, this gorgeous novel told in verse tells the age-old story of how hard it is for girls to grow up.
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