New YA Book Releases For The Rest of 2025

This year, rather than offering up giant roundups of new YA book releases on a quarterly basis, I’ve put together a weekly list. This makes it easier to look at and make reading plans, as much as it makes it easier to write about a wider array of titles with a little bit more depth. But as we round into the final weeks of the year, the number of new releases drops off significantly. Between that and holidays which will change up when you receive this newsletter, this week’s new release newsletter will cover all of the rest of the books hitting shelves in 2025.

The same caveats that have applied in recent quieter weeks apply here as well. There’s not a lot of diversity in titles and content, but that’s a consequence of fewer releases and not a change in YA diversity more broadly. You’ll find here, too, the two YA comics which released this month–there are no more, and there are no YA nonfiction releases, so there will be no separate coverage of those for December. For titles not released last week or this week, I’ve included the publication date.

Take this as your chance to get to know some of the new books that can often get overlooked this time of year. Take it also as your opportunity to catch up with some of the releases you’ve already squirreled away on your TBR but haven’t yet had a chance to crack open. I know that I am!

New Hardcover YA Releases This Week

Bone Broth by Alex Taylor For teen readers ready for books about starting life out as a young adult comes this queer thriller. Ash, who is transmasculine, is beginning his first job in a London ramen shop. His work? Creating bone broth. But financial challenges are making everything in Ash’s world–and the world around him–shift. He’s had some difficulty with the job, primarily relating to getting to know and enjoy the company of his coworkers. So when Ash’s boss turns up dead at a staff party, and suddenly, everyone wants a selfie with the corpse, Ash begins to deeply worry about the consequences. Who caused this and what are the implications? The art in this graphic novel looks fantastic.

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