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The titles on this preview list do not represent all the young adult books being released from January-April. Publication dates may change. What books are you most interested in? Leave a comment below and pre-order today.

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1. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Talia Hibbert | Joy Revolution | January 3, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


2. The Wrong Kind of Weird

James Ramos | Inkyard | January 3, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


3. For Lamb 

Lesa Cline-Ransome | January 3, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


4. We Are All So Good at Smiling

Amber McBride | Feiwel & Friends | January 10, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



5. Cool. Awkward. Black.

Karen Strong | Viking Books for Young Readers | January 10, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


6. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Shannon Gibney | Dutton Books for Young Readers | January 10, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


7. Friday I’m in Love 

Camryn Garrett | Knopf BYR | January 10, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


8. As You Walk On By

Julian Winters | Viking BYR | January 17, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



9. Sun Keep Rising

Kristen R. Lee | Crown BYR | January 24, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


10. The Minus-One Club 

Kekla Magoon | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | January 24, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


11. Reggie & Delilah’s Year of Falling

Elise Bryant | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


12. Play the Game

Charlene Allen | HarperCollins/Tegen | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



13. The Davenports

Krystal Marquis | Dial | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


14. How to Be a (Young) Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi | Nic Stone | Kokila | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


15. Promise Boys 

Nick Brooks | Feiwel & FriendsMacmillan | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


16. The Black Queen

Jumata Emill | Delacorte Press |  January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



17. Nerdcrush

Alisha Emrich | Running Press Kids | February 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


18. Daughters of Oduma

Moses Ose Utomi | Atheneum BYR | February 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


19. Wildblood: A Novel

Lauren Blackwood | Wednesday Books  | February 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


20. The Beauty Trials (The Belles, Bk. #3)

Dhonielle Clayton | Disney-Hyperion | February 14, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



21. And Other Mistakes

Erika Turner | Feiwel and Friends | February 14, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


22. Last Chance Dance

Lakita Wilson | Viking BYR | February 21, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


23. Delicious Monsters 

Liselle Sambury | Margaret K. McElderry | February 28, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


24. Chaos Theory 

Nic Stone | Crown BYR | February 28, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



25. There Goes the Neighborhood 

Jade Adia | Disney-Hyperion | March 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


26. The Jump

Brittney Morris | Simon & Schuster BYR | March 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


27. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics, 6)

Kalynn Bayron | Feiwel and Friends | March 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


28. Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir) 

Colin Kaepernick | Eve L. Ewing | Orlando Caicedo | Graphix | March 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



29. Chaos & Flame

Tessa Gratton | Justina Ireland | Razorbill | March 28, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


30. Blood Debts

Terry J. Benton-Walker | Tor Teen | April 4, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


31. The Making of Yolanda La Bruja

Lorraine Avila | Levine Querido | April 11, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


32. Master of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, Bk. 3)

Rena Barron | Harperteen | April 11, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop



33. Work with What You Got: A Memoir

Zion Clark | James S. Hirsch | Candlewick | April 11, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop 


34. The Song of Wrath 

Sarah Raughley | Margaret K. McElderry Books | April 18, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


35. That Self-Same Metal (Forge & Fracture, 1)

Brittany N. Williams | Abrams | April 25, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


36. Money Out Loud : All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us

Berna Anat | Monique Sterling | Quill Tree Books | April 25, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


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