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YA Fantasy

Kingdoms. Magic. Curses. Secrets. Choose your next adventure. If you've been wanting to dip your toes into this genre these are great places to start.

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  • Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless…
    Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — YA F ADEYE 2018
  • A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. Available in…
    Book, 2019New York : Wednesday Books, 2019. — YA F DUNCA 2019
  • After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — YA F DEONN 2020
  • The first in an fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA F BROWN 2020
  • Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow...where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer,…
    Book, 2018New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. — YA F ERNSH 2018
  • The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2018Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2018] — YA F LEGRA 2018
  • Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval are over. But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives.…
    Book, 2017New York : Flatiron Books, 2017. — YA F GARBE 2017
  • In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders—legendary heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire—until a war between two sisters ripped it all apart.
    Book, 2019New York : Simon Pulse, [2019] — YA F PAU P 2019
  • All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle…
    Book, 2019New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2019] — YA F ROGER 2019
  • Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2018New York : Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — YA F NGAN 2018
  • The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would…
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — YA F TAYLO 2017
  • Tavia is at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society that wants to keep her kind under lock and key. But everything changes in the aftermath of a siren murder trial that rocks the nation, and Tavia accidentally…
    Book, 2020New York : Tor Teen, 2020. — YA F MORRO 2020
  • Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live…
    Book, 2013New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — YA F BRAY 2013
  • Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest…
    Book, 2015New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — YA F BARDU 2015
  • When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body…
    Book, 2007New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007. — YA F CLARE 2007
  • Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes…
    Book, 2014New York : Eos, 2014, 2008, 2004, 1995. — YA/F/NIX/1995
  • Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted…
    Book, 2012New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2012. — YA/F/MEYER/2012
  • Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy…
    Book, 2018New York : Flatiron Books, 2018. — YA F ALBER 2018
  • Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. But, when she tries to save a stranger…
    Book, 2019New York : Bloomsbury, 2019. — YA F KEMME 2019
  • Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Razorbill, 2015. — YA/F/TAHIR/2015