Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. The following are young adult books published in and/or reviewed by Jessica in 2025
Browsing: YAlit
YAlit refers to young adult literature. YAlit are books for teens, ages 12 and up.
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your library. The following middle grade and YA graphic novels were published in 2025.
Two magicians — one summer, one winter — must work together to save their land in A Fate So Cold, by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman.
Two strangers become friends through notes in a library astronomy book in The Secret Astronomers, by Jessica Walker.
The fates of three princesses are tangled in Victorian-era politics and intrigue in A Queen’s Match, the sequel to A Queen’s Game, by Katharine McGee.
A young woman catches the eye of a prince in Never Ever After, a Cinderella reimaging influenced by Chinese fairy tales by Sue Lynn Tan.
Amber McBride’s The Leaving Room is a hopeful YA novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death.
Court intrigue, political maneuvering and Scottish folklore collide in The Crimson Throne, the first book in the Spy and Guardian series by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis.
A chance encounter at Comic Con turns into a romance of epic proportions in Heartstrings, the third book in Ali Novak’s Heartbreak Chronicles.
A girl’s induction to a secret society comes at a price in Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls, a mystery by Rowana Miller.