Your Guide to Fall 2022 YA Books: October-December

As always, this list of new fall 2022 YA books will not be comprehensive, especially as book publication

Use this list less as definitive this season and more as pretty accurate with some

This list does not include comics, and it does not include new paperbacks

Grab your TBR, open up your book tracker of choice, and add some great fall 2022 YA books

Roxie Clark has seen more dead bodies than your average 17-year-old

Instead of fearing the curse, however, Roxie has combined her flair for performance and her gruesome family

A year after the murder, Roxie’s desperate to help Skylar find closure and start to

And the closer they get to the truth, the more Roxie starts to wonder if some scary

Is she MTB with Gilly? Or is Berry her true soul mate? Only time (or 304 pages) will

But Reapers have recently been spotted in Japan, and it’s only a matter of time

But he’ll only help Ren if she finds a sword lost thousands of years ago &

As her journey thrusts her in the middle of scheming gods and dangerous Yokai demons, she will

Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die

 He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his

But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever —

One of the first women to earn a degree in medicine, Walker championed women’s rights,

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to 16-year-old girls

Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection — from werewolves to vampires to zombies —

And so too the monsters of Rogers’s imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee stories —

Today is the day Jo Monarch has been wishing on the moon about her entire life

The day she could move across the mountains to a glittering, rich future

The damaged stepson of one of the Reps, Cove has been groomed as an emotional weapon, taught

Can she really have everything she’s ever wished for…when it means leaving all

With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the

Before Prince Eric’s mother, the Queen of Vellona, went missing two years ago, she reminded

Now Eric is on a quest to find the Isle of Serein, the witch’s legendary

Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones

 Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide

But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness inside is more

But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria’s parents exile her to California to stay

And almost 60 years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, A Scatter

Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one

But when Luce’s English teacher shares an original script about the disappearance of another little

Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the

With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn’t help when Natalie notices a

Now Natalie finds herself juggling all kinds of feels and responsibilities

But as Natalie’s plan to self-treat unravels, so does the perfect façade she&

Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as

In Better Than We Found It, best-selling author Frederick Joseph and debut author Porsche Joseph make

Until he’s kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he’s

To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the part his abductor has

When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the

Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming

Isaac Griffin has always felt something was missing from his life

As his family history is revealed, Isaac finds himself drawing closer to Max

There’s no one Kelsie Miller hates more than Eric Mulvaney Ortiz — the homecoming king,

After they run into each other — literally — at the last high school party of the

Suddenly, a plan is formed: they’ll go on a road trip to the University of

Used to succeeding in everything, Kelsie and Eric assume they’ll naturally figure out the details

The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn’t be more different

Gabriela, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability

Despite their differences, as soon as they met on the first day of freshman year, they had

Suddenly senior year doesn’t look anything like they hoped it would

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s

But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it’

When Jessamine comes across a recruitment poster reading “Pony Express Special Assignment: St

Jessamine cuts her hair, dons a pair of pants, and steps into the world as Jesse

As they encounter mysterious portals that carry them miles in an eyeblink and unusual creatures with uncanny

Outrunning your fate earns a wish and the chance to steal the king’s immortality

Yet when Selestra touches Nox in her very first prediction, their fates become entwined, and death seeks

What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world&

In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments until

Tristan and Dylan have escaped the afterlife, defying fate: Dylan should have been killed in a horrific

Alone, they’ll die, but being together has its own difficulties

If only she’d also learned the fundamentals of human biology or even how to read

At high school, Lark discovers the world is very different than she has been told, from the

Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has built a quiet, safe life for herself, teaching young

To right this wrong, and save lives and her own magical powers, Frances must hunt down answers

With the recent death of her mother, Sam’s focus is the farm, which her family

But Sam doesn’t know that an even bigger threat looms on the horizon

As Sam’s family wrestles with intensifying discrimination and even violence, Sam forges a new and

When the United States announces that those of Japanese descent will be forced into “relocation camps,&

Csilla Abado has a full plate after becoming the first Queen of Bones

Otherworldly creatures are spilling through, threatening more than just the island kingdom

As their leader, Csilla takes every decision head-on, but her sister’s death weighs on her,

When Lorelei suddenly goes missing, he joins the search, but his time is running out and he

A menacing and powerful magic rests under her skin, and she fears it as much as she

She flees only to be caught, alongside Csilla’s first mate Nara, by an Incendian Scout

Becoming his fire god’s champion and wielding his obsidian sword has given him even more

As the war between gods and mortals builds to a crescendo, Csilla, Kane, and Lorelei must not

The Singh sisters grew up helping their father navigate the bustle of the Songbird Inn

But things are about to heat up now that the Songbird has been named the Most Romantic

If she does, her grief for Pop, their dad’s late husband, will overwhelm her

Until a blizzard traps her in a barn with the boy she accidentally stood up and has

Talking to girls is such a struggle! When a pretty actress comes to the Songbird with her

When two potential suitors float in on a summer breeze, Rani is swept up in grandeur to

The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy

Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother — only to find there is

But rebellion beckons, because it all feels like an illusion now

If they cannot save each other or themselves, we are all doomed

Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today — and

Being part of The Ark’s fandom has given her everything she loves — her friend

He’s their frontman — and playing in a band with his mates is all he

But Jimmy and Rowan are just friends — and Rowan has a secret girlfriend the fans can

 I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the

Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy

Adam is thrilled; it’s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray

And they can’t wait to see each other — surely, this is just what they

The only upside of her stay are her run-ins with Daksh, the Acharya’s son, who

Alone and betrayed in a land infested with monsters, Katyani must find the answers to her past

Soon, terrified by the tightening vise of Hitler’s power, Charlie and the other Swingjugend are

Even the most powerful magic can’t hide a secret forever

Croi wakes the next morning with something pulling at her core, summoning her to the Otherworld

For Croi is not a brownie at all but another creature entirely, enchanted to forget her true

Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they’re not friends

Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows

With the sisters’ futures — and lives — in jeopardy, they’ll have to decide

Her father, a professor of African American history, is a walking encyclopedia, spouting off random dates and

Ruth, on the other hand, would rather sit quietly reading or writing in her journal

Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their

When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her

With cinematic sweep and tender observation, Sacha Lamb presents a totally original drama about individual purpose, the

So when she’s accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to

Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl

With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a

Shira Barbanel has a plan: this Hanukkah, she’s going to get a boyfriend

The only problem? Shira’s an absolute disaster when it comes to flirting

Which means he’s the perfect person to teach her how to win Isaac over

But as Shira starts to see the sweet, funny boy beneath Tyler’s playboy exterior, she

The other Scapegracers are much jollier, heading into the winter holidays having set up shop as curse&

So if she’s going to find Madeline, her only ally is Mr

But she and her trusty stolen bike are in for a bumpy ride…

To make matters worse, the school admins replace her elite squad member with a sub-par new recruit,

Together Abyan, Artemis, and the rest of the team unravel the mystery of why Artemis is actually

When Zephyr is forced to infiltrate an enemy camp to keep Ren’s followers from being

Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family’s apartment in Brooklyn

This was supposed to be Rania’s greatest summer: hanging out with her best friend, Fatima,

A road trip leads to searching for answers to questions she didn’t even think to

Ever since a vampire murdered her mother, Ava has been determined to get revenge

The magicians may not be the bloodsuckers she’s hunting, but Ava is convinced something supernatural

If she joins them, they promise to teach her the skills she needs to hunt vampires and

And to do so, she must put on the performance of her life in a sinister and

Jessica doesn’t like parties, and she doesn’t like Tegan, who has an obvious,

When a body is discovered at the beach, friends start turning on friends, and lies start piling

Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan

She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about

As things start to feel more serious, though, Shani’s hurt over her ex-girlfriend’s

There are some lines that should never be crossed — even in a city ruled by hunger

Morality, after all, has become a fluid thing since the Nazi siege has cut off her city

But honestly, she’s running against Gerald Thomas, a rigid rule-follower whose platform includes reinstating a

Iran suddenly dominates the nightly news, and her opponent seizes the opportunity to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria

You won’t find it on a map, your phone won’t work here, and

But on her 16th birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true

While Jay might be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls, he also seems to know

Not all monsters can be slain, and not all nightmares are confined to the dark

Meet Eugenides as a young boy in “Breia’s Earrings,” and Irene as a

The resulting narrative takes us through Brian’s childhood and slice of life stories on the

But Lari’s world turns upside down when her beloved grandmother passes away

Determined to protect her home, Lari does the unthinkable — she works together with Pedro Molina to

Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world’

Eight years ago, everything changed for Devlin: Her country was attacked

Joining the spy ranks herself, Dev sees her mother only when receiving assignments

After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accidentally messes up his throwing arm

And instead of spending the summer with his friends, Declan is forced to get a job to

So Declan ends up playing a lot of Imperialist Empires online and making new friends

Finn is the first person who might be just as angry as Declan

How white kids like them are being denied opportunities because others are manipulating the system

So when his new friends decide it’s time to fight back, Declan is right there

But when things turn deadly, Declan is going to have to decide just how far he’

 Owl and her aunt and uncle never speak of the brutal attack that brought

Together, they challenge each other, learn to question their preconceptions, and risk a romance their families are

Three teens struggle to carve out futures for themselves under a totalitarian regime

In a desperate, fatal act of protest against the oppressive new government, he sets himself on fire

Štěpán finds his Olympic hockey ambitions jeopardized and must conceal his sexual orientation

With their futures hanging in the balance, all three must decide whether to keep struggling to survive

When Quinta meets Twain outside of the Emporium, two things happen: One, Quinta is sure she’

Soon, their lace catches the eye of the Casorina, the ruler of Severon

However, they can’t sew a dress without more material, and the secret to starlight’

A powerful and romantic adventure set in a whimsically magical world

All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death

But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak

Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her

When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree

If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to

Yet here I am, stuck in a strange, dangerous place with the worst of the supernaturals, the

The question is whether we’ll find a way out before I kill him…or

But I have a nasty suspicion that Grace isn’t as human as she thinks, and&

Something stronger than fear…and way more bloody dangerous

Meanwhile, Serilda is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery of his forgotten

He also seeks vengeance against the seven gods who have long trapped the Dark Ones behind the

Romance and adventure collide in this stunning finale to the Rumpelstilskin-inspired fairy tale

For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living

Luminary is a book of practical magic that empowers you to pursue mental wellness with curiosity

Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across

To many, being Nubian means you’re fated for a life plagued by difficulties and disrespect

Something within them is changing, giving each of them extraordinary powers

And there are people Up High watching, eager to do anything they can to become even more

The fate of their city, and their people, hangs in the balance

Born and raised behind the high security walls that sealed their fate, she’s now a

With unrest brewing both inside and outside the Q, reaching the exit is a daunting and dangerous

Strap in for breakneck action and compelling characters in this timely, nonstop thriller

Sixteen-year-old Eiric Halvorsen is among the luckier ones — his family has remained prosperous

Also at risk is Eiric’s half-systir, Liv, who’s under suspicion for her interest

After one performance that amazes even herself, two wyrdspinners in the audience make Reginn an irresistible offer:

They soon realize that a great evil lurks beneath the dazzling surface and that old betrayals and

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a

It’s a feast of irresistible characters, hilarious dialogue, and masterful storytelling — in short, everything

As the city grinds to a halt, 12 teens band together to help a friend pull off the

But then, we can’t always prepare for the magical moments that change everything

Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon — comes another novel of Black teen

When Jamison almost forgets the date of his mother’s birthday, he worries that his

Jamison begins to take photos of ordinary people on the street, at the same time and place

His endeavor turns into a school project, and then into something more

But more importantly, he’s able to revive the memory of his mother, and to connect

New friends (and foes), challenging classes (at times too challenging), and maybe a cute tutor-turned-something-more (if her

And when Avi stumbles across the truth, her relationship with Belle is put to the test

After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her

Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up

How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something

But her parents and their struggling Chinese bakery, Sweetea, aren’t far from campus or from

She also finds a familiar face — her middle-school rival, Chris Lu

Chris is cute but still someone to be wary of…until a vandal hits Sunny’

Can they root out the ugly history and take on the current threat?

Which means saying goodbye to her old cleanup ways — and their inherent moral ambiguities — and

And of course it doesn’t hurt that the candidate is Avery Green’s dad

Meanwhile at Roosevelt High, Margot finds herself roped into a second election, this one for school president

With Margot rocking both campaigns and maybe even making friends, it seems like she’s well

Adele grew up in the shadows — first watching from backstage at her mother’s Parisian

 Many of the men that try to charm Adele’s new friends do so with