Amazon’s Top 20 Teen & Young Adult Books of 2025

Amazon has announced their lists of best books for 2025. Here are their picks for the top 20 YA books of 2025:

And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun

Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen

Balancing Act by Paula Chase

Bitten by Jordan Stephanie Gray

Coldwire by Chloe Gong

The Crimson Throne by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis

Fake Skating by Lynn Painter

Grave Flowers by Autumn Krause

Hekate: The Witch by Nikita Gill

Hour of the Pumpkin Queen by Megan Shepherd

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This by Eugene Yelchin

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan

Nightweaver by R. M. Gray

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman

Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley

Soulmatch by Rebecca Danzenbaker

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Watch Me by Tahereh Mafi

We Fell Apart by E. Lockhart

When We Ride by Rex Ogle

Wake Your Friday Brain Cells – November 21 Edition

CHILDREN’S LIT

The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books – Lit Hub

Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz – Horn Book

I don’t believe it! Dav Pilkey takes his first number one – The Bookseller

LIBRARIES

Baltimore County reinstates 14 part-time librarians after abrupt mass firings – CBS News

Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles – KCUR

Under pressure, Maine Library Commission postpones vote to adopt new requirements for libraries – The Maine Monitor

YA LIT

From Young to Adult With ‘Six of Crows’: Your Favorite Books Are Being Quietly Re-Edited – The Harvard Crimson

Love that Chi-Chi! Ngozi Ukazu scores a different type of body checking with her new book, Flip – The Comics Journal