Here are 22 of the YA books releasing in September that have received starred reviews and praise. You will find a combination of well-known voices and new ones to discover as well as some amazing nonfiction among the novels. Enjoy!

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

Battle of the Bands edited by Lauren Gibaldi and Eric Smith

Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchison

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

For All Time by Shanna Miles

Hello (From Here) by Chandler Baker and Wesley King

Kneel by Candace Buford

Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow

Tell It True by Tim Lockette

Time Will Tell by Barry Lyga

We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson

When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII by Susan H. Kamei

When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez

Where I Belong by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora edited by Saraciea J. Fennell

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow