#YA BOOKS

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out November 2024

🩷 Good afternoon, bookish bats. By now, you know that sweet, sapphic romance books have a special place in my heart. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in November 2024.

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💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💖 Leap - Simina Popescu 💖 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane 💖 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 💖 A New Leash on Love - Jaime Clevenger 💖 Mallory in Full Color - Elisa Stone Leahy

Fantasy 💖 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri 💖 A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 💖 The Moonstone Covenant - Jill Hammer 💖 Witch Queen of Redwinter - Ed McDonald 💖 Our Deadly Designs - Kalyn Josephson 💖 The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

Paranormal/Horror 💖 I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 💖 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri

Historical 💖 Time and Tide - J.M. Frey

Sci-Fi 💖 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[thequietesthing]

Suzanne Collins was really pissed when she saw all those edits of Snow as ‘daddy’ and whatever other bullshit after the TBOSAS movie, sat down at her laptop again and started typing “let’s see if you get the message now when HE KILLS 47 CHILDREN”

[jordanbackupsoc]

Happy 9th birthday to:

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”

“Who’s Mark?”

“Scheming face?”

“Definitely”

“I protect my investments”

“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost”

“Because I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk to you for two days”

“We could wake them up”

“SHED LAUGHED AND IF HE COULD HAVE BOTTLED THE SOUND AND GOTTEN DRUNK ON IT EVERY NIGHT, HE WOULD HAVE. IT TERRIFIED HIM”

“She was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broke that he couldn’t pull himself together into SOME SEMBLANCE OF A MAN FOR HER. THAT WITHOUT MEANING TO, HED BEGUN TO LEAN ON HER, TO LOOK FOR HER, TO NEED HER NEAR. HE NEEDED TO THANK HER FOR HIS NEW HAT.”

“I. should. let. you. die.”

“I want you to stay. I want you to… I want you”

“I WILL HAVE YOU WITHOUT ARMOR KAZ BREKKER OR I WILL NOT HAVE YOU AT ALL”

“MAYBE I LIKED YOUR STUPID FACE”

Six of Crows has my heart ❤️

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This advertisement is for The Lies We Conjure, the new contemporary supernatural thriller from Sarah Henning.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Thirteen witches. Two ordinary sisters. One locked-room murder. This whodunit is giving Knives Out meets The Inheritance Games with magic. 

An eccentric old woman approaches sisters Ruby and Wren with an offer too good to pass up: attend a fancy dinner party posing as her granddaughters for two grand each. Sounds like a great arrangement—what could possibly go wrong? Literally EVERYTHING! 

Shortly after arriving at the mysterious Hegemony Manor, the hostess is dead and a killer lies among the dinner guests. Did we mention the guests are all powerful witches? Ruby and Wren must solve the murder if they hope to make it out of the manor alive.

[caihosreads]

☠️ Kaz “Dirtyhands” Brekker

[belle-keys]

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

[amalasdraws]

IT’S HAPPENING! Aran and Tao are coming to a bookstore near you in 2026 🎉

Suzanne Samin and I are so happy the boys have found a home with Putnam (Random Penguin House) and Ruta Rimas, thanks to our agent Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary.

We can’t wait to share them (and their cat friends) with all of you. More to come!

(THIS IS A MOCK COVER AND NOT THE FINAL BOOK COVER)

[headspace-hotel]

There is a type of plot that is prevalent in YA books and starting to get into general lit that I do not like. It is a similar trope to the MacGuffin, but instead of the plot being driven by an object, it is driven by the characters being in some sort of situation with formally fixed stakes.

Just as a MacGuffin is an object with no specific properties that affect its importance to the story, the identifying characteristic of this plot is that exact nature of the situation is irrelevant or at least not very important.

A very common example is when characters are involved in some sort of game or competition—for example, the first Throne of Glass book involves the protagonist competing to become the king's assassin, but the plot of the book would need to change very little if the competition was a beauty pageant.

"Gamified" plot lines like this often also include MacGuffins (to drive the "game"), confirming the tropes' similarity in my head.

The other common example is the "magic/superhero/assassin school" plot. The "school" is often just a device that brings the characters together and keeps them on a predetermined track, but there's nothing about what the characters are learning or even the school's specific identity as an educational institution that affects the plot.

[lynsstrange]

Other YA characters taking down their enemies: massive scale magical fight scenes, complex good vs evil moral conversations, love triangles, tragedy

vs crooked kingdom

kaz brekker: so, what do you fuckers know about the stock market?

[scared-to-look]

I’ve never heard a quote about transness I’ve related to more

[soctopus]

the crows as onion headlines:

Kaz:

Inej:

Nina:

Jesper:

Wylan:

Matthias:

[opal-stars]

sprolden my beloveds on my SCREEN?!?! 😩🥹🤲🏻

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@aliceoseman @spacezeros @chronicintrovert

[jordanbackupsoc]

The fact that one of Kaz’s last thoughts before he literally drowns is that Inej is lovely brave and better than anything he deserved, etc etc. That she is his weakness, and that he needed to thank her for his new hat