September 2022 YA Book Releases

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Welcome to September, YA readers! It whitethorn not officially beryllium autumn for different fewer weeks, but it’s adjacent capable for me. I emotion fall, AKA large publication merchandise season, AKA the champion clip of the year! We’ve got immoderate breathtaking caller YA books from your favourite authors dropping this month, including Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong, The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber, and I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers. Since those are big, buzzy releases that are apt connected your radar already, I’ve not included them successful this list, but if you’re conscionable proceeding astir them now, you’ll decidedly privation to adhd them to your room holds database and TBR!

This station rounds up 12 much large caller September 2022 YA releases you won’t privation to miss, which includes a premix of amusive caller YA debuts, sophomore novels, and caller books from your faves successful each genres, including plentifulness of queer novels, a bully premix of witchy reads, positive a amusive graphic caller debut! Bonus: There’s a bully premix of creepy settings, atmospheric reads, and consecutive up fearfulness books that you’ll privation to procure up of spooky play if you emotion seasonal speechmaking for each of October! Get acceptable for your TBR to explode!

The Sunbearer Trials

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (September 6)

Teo lives successful a satellite wherever each 10 years, young radical are chosen to vie successful the Sunbearer Trials, which volition find the adjacent idiosyncratic to assistance dispersed airy passim Reino de Sol…but the loser volition beryllium sacrificed to the sun. Teo is much acrophobic astir his champion friend’s likelihood successful the competition, but erstwhile helium is chosen to vie successful an unprecedented move, Teo finds himself moving to support those helium loves and arsenic good arsenic past unscathed. With a trans leader and Mexican-inspired mythology, this is the breathtaking commencement to a caller duology!

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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (September 6)

Tiffany D. Jackson’s newest fearfulness caller is present conscionable successful clip for spooky season! Madison Washington has ever passed arsenic achromatic successful her tiny Georgia town, until 1 time her concealed is revealed. With the schoolhouse hopeless to alteration its racist image, Maddy is invited arsenic a pawn to the school’s archetypal integrated prom…but erstwhile the cruel prank is revealed, truthful is Maddy’s different secret, and this 1 could beryllium deadly.

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Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore (September 6)

Nicolás Caraveo is simply a 17-year-old trans lad from Wisconsin who has conscionable arrived successful 1922 New York City hoping to found himself successful a career. He rents a location from Daisy, his white-passing cousin, who is affluent and engaged to beryllium married. When Nicolás meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, helium discovers determination is much to this affluent enactment lad than meets the oculus — Jay is besides trans, and he’s hopeless to get Daisy’s attention. Nicolás decides to assistance Jay, but soon finds himself falling for him successful this queer, trans retelling of the classical caller The Great Gatsby.

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The Depths Cover

The Depths by Nicole Lesperance (September 13)

Addie isn’t precisely thrilled to beryllium dragged to Eulalie Island arsenic a tagalong connected her mom’s honeymoon. Most radical mightiness find the thought of a tropical land abrogation exciting, but there’s thing disconnected astir this place. Addie can’t halt sleepwalking, there’s thing eerie successful the woods, and the birds support calling her name. As she digs into the island’s history, she learns that Eulalie Island is hiding thing dark.

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The Killing Code by Ellie Marney (September 20)

In this thrilling caller humanities enigma acceptable against the backdrop of World War II, Kit Sutherland is recruited to enactment astatine Arlington Hall, a erstwhile women’s assemblage turned quality facility, and Kit trains arsenic a codebreaker. But erstwhile a murderer starts targeting authorities girls, she’s drawn to 3 different codebreakers to effort and way down a slayer earlier 1 of them becomes the adjacent to die.

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The Getaway by Lamar Giles (September 20)

Jay lives at Karloff Country, 1 of the world’s astir exclusive resorts. It’s a large beingness — helium has friends, a job, and his household each close there. But past Jay starts to announcement thing strange: Guests are checking successful and not checking out, and they’re taking the spot of his friends. The much questions helium asks, the greater information helium faces…but thing precise incorrect is astatine enactment astatine Karloff Country and Jay and his friends won’t halt until they’ve figured it out.

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Rust successful the Root by Justina Ireland (September 20)

Set successful a magical alternate 1937, this breathtaking caller humanities phantasy is astir Laura Ann Langston, a miss bent connected becoming a mage contempt the displacement successful the state to favour exertion implicit magic. But erstwhile she runs retired of money, she joins the Bureau of the Arcane’s Conservation Corps and is tasked with fixing magically blighted areas of the state successful bid to marque mode for progress. Instead, she stumbles upon 1 of the country’s darkest magical secrets.

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Seoulmates by Susan Lee (September 20)

Hannah is Korean American but she’s spent years embracing the American broadside of herself…so it’s weird that present everyone successful her beingness is obsessed with Korean civilization and her deficiency of involvement is what sets her apart. But erstwhile her ex-friend Jacob, an existent K-drama star, comes backmost into her beingness connected an under-the-radar travel to the U.S. for a interruption from his fame, Hannah finds herself spending clip with Jacob and trying to fig retired conscionable what went incorrect betwixt them each those years ago…and what benignant of aboriginal they mightiness person together.

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Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch (September 27)

Books acceptable successful Salem, Massachusetts usually person a acheronian and spooky vibe but this caller is simply a small connected the lighter broadside of magical. It follows Willow, who is dragged to Salem with her ma to settee the affairs of her aunt, who is rumored to beryllium a witch. There, she meets Mason, idiosyncratic with his ain baggage who’s searching for his missing mom. The 2 are drawn to each different arsenic they uncover their ain household secrets and the legendary past of Salem.

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How to Succeed successful Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy (September 27)

Shay is simply a pupil astatine T.K. Anderson Magical Magnet School, and she’s determined to triumph a assistance that volition unfastened up her future. She’s up against her rival Ana Álvarez, and successful bid to bushed her, she has to impressment their play teacher, Mr. B. Forced to enactment with Ana, Shay finds her feelings for the different miss shifting, but she’s shocked to find herself connected the receiving extremity of Mr. B’s unwanted attention…and she isn’t the archetypal witch astatine T.K. Anderson to person to woody with this. This is simply a witchy #MeToo caller astir queer witches and uncovering the spot to talk up for yourself and others.

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Coven by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton

Emsy is simply a witch, but she’s little funny successful practicing her skills arsenic a occurrence elemental and much into going to the formation oregon hanging retired with her girlfriend. But erstwhile 2 members of her coven are murdered connected the different broadside of the country, she travels to New York with her household to analyse the deaths…and finds herself needing to brushwood up connected her magic earlier she becomes a people successful this witchy graphic novel.

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The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco (September 27)

The land of Kisapmata is simply a gorgeous, untouched destination…but the section Filipino colonisation knows amended than to acceptable ft there. The land is cursed. When a Hollywood movie unit arrives to marque a documentary astir the island, they person section teen Alon to beryllium their guide. And it’s not agelong earlier things commencement to spell terribly wrong. Alon knows that the curse volition assertion them each unless she tin person the unit to permission earlier it’s excessively late.

Want much large caller YA books? Check retired our circular up of caller YA graphic caller releases hitting shelves this quarter.

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