Summer Reading Guide 2024: Young adult

Comes the Night

Isobelle Carmody

A superb YA fantasy set in the near future, full of secrets, high stakes, peril, deceptions and dreamwalkers, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles and…

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The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome, Book 1)

Catherine Doyle

From the number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle comes the most fiery enemies-to-lovers romantasy of the year. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo and Stephanie Garber.

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Hover Car Racer: The Graphic Novel

Matthew Reilly, John Hanna (illus.)

Matthew Reilly's blockbuster novel Hover Car Racer explodes off the page as a thrilling new graphic novel, brilliantly illustrated by John Hanna.

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Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, Book 1)

Tigest Girma

A lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister in this dangerously romantic dark academia debut.

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The Sweetness Between Us

Sarah Winifred Searle

Heartstopper meets vampires in this blood-sipping-turned-romance graphic novel from the Prime Minister's Literary Award-winning and CBCA short-listed creator of The Greatest Thing.

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When the World Tips Over

Jandy Nelson

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, the New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun.

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White Noise

Raelke Grimmer

Fifteen-year-old Emma is woken up by her dad's nightmares. Again.

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A Way Home

Emily Brewin

Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home.

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We Didn’t Think It Through

Gary Lonesborough

The justice system characterises Jamie Langton as a 'danger to society', but he's just an Aboriginal kid, trying to find his way through adolescence.

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Almost Nothing Happened

Meg Rosoff

Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson is back in this highly anticipated, brand-new adventure to follow the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, Chalice of the Gods.

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The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (Sunderworld Vol. 1)

Ransom Riggs

The much-anticipated new fantasy series from Ransom Riggs, his first since introducing the #1 global phenomenon Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.

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Don’t Let the Forest In

CG Drews

Deliciously dark and dangerously addictive, Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education in this queer dark academia YA thriller from the author of the sensational The Boy Who Steals Houses, filled…

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Looking for Smoke

K.A. Cobell

A literary-thriller murder mystery, set within a Native American community for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter, Sadie and the One of Us Is Lying series by a debut own voices author

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