The Best New YA Books Out January 2023

French Kissing successful New York by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau (January 3)

Last summer, Margot fell for a cute American lad named Zach nether the lights of Paris. This summer, she’s yet headed to New York to enactment the edifice country and be her father’s wedding, and she can’t hold to reunite with Zach. But a batch has changed successful a year, and Margot finds herself torn betwixt the representation of a cleanable Paris nighttime and caller anticipation successful New York.

Rebel of Fire and Flight by Aneesa Marufu (January 3)

Khadija loves escapade stories of magic and romance, but her ain beingness is overmuch much restricted. When she gets connection that her matrimony has been arranged, she makes the impulsive determination to interval distant connected a blistery aerial balloon, which puts her successful the way of a mediocre glassmaker’s apprentice and a brewing war.

Breakup from Hell by Ann Davila Cardinal (January 3)

Mica is bored of her beingness successful tiny municipality Vermont, but erstwhile she meets Sam, she abruptly finds that things are looking up. Sam is breathtaking and absorbing but the much clip she spends with him, the weirder things look to get. And erstwhile she discovers immoderate of his secrets, Mica knows she needs to interruption up with him…but what if the consequences are acold worse than she could imagine?

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Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (January 3)

Ex–best friends Bradley and Celine are world rivals who haven’t spoken successful years. These days, Bradley is simply a shot prima and jock portion Celine has recovered societal media fame exploring conspiracy theories. When they some motion up for the aforesaid wilderness endurance course, they find that indispensable enactment together. Ugh. But the much clip they walk together, the much they retrieve wherefore they utilized to beryllium friends…and observe that possibly there’s a caller benignant of aboriginal successful store for them.

We Are All So Good astatine Smiling by Amber McBride (January 10)

From the award-winning writer of Me (Moth), present is simply a marque caller caller successful verse astir Whimsy, a miss successful the infirmary for attraction for objective slump erstwhile she meets Faerry, a lad whom she feels an instant transportation with successful much ways than one. As they get to cognize each other, Whimsy and Faerry recognize their lives and their stories are twined successful much ways than one.

Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson (January 17)

This is simply a novella sequel to Sorcery of Thorns, which is simply a amusive phantasy escapade astir a Librarian’s apprentice who discovers there’s much to sorcery than she’s ever been taught. In this sequel, Elisabeth and Nathaniel are ensconced successful his manor aft their adventures in Sorcery of Thorns, lone to find that the wards meant to support the property are trapping them there.

The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan (January 24)

Aziza is the lone hedge witch successful her town, which means she’s usually precise engaged cleaning up magical misdeeds and mischief. But each that pales successful examination to the acheronian that swallows up the wood extracurricular of town, and Aziza needs help. Enter Leo: A twelvemonth ago, helium was cursed to hide his existent emotion and he’s been searching for a mode to easiness the ache of the loss. He agrees to assistance Aziza successful speech for assistance breaking his curse, but a newcomer and the evil they’re battling volition marque their elemental bargain overmuch much hard than they anticipated.

The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon (January 24)

Kermit is grief-stricken aft the nonaccomplishment of his sister and is hardly getting done his days erstwhile helium receives an invitation to articulation the Minus-One Club, a radical of teens astatine his schoolhouse who’ve each mislaid idiosyncratic adjacent to them. As Kermit grows person to this unexpected group, helium finds himself drawn to Matt, his crush, whose positivity helps Kermit find his mode forward. But erstwhile Matt’s ain inability to afloat look his nonaccomplishment puts him jeopardy, Kermit indispensable measurement guardant to bring the radical together.

6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe (January 24)

Penny and Tate decidedly bash not similar each other, but they’re forced to enactment done it acknowledgment to their moms. Penny’s ma becomes Tate’s mom’s surviving kidney donor, and Penny and Tate indispensable instrumentality attraction of them portion they recuperate. Which makes the information that they support astir kissing each the much confusing…and intriguing.

Promise Boys by Nick Brooks (January 31)

J.B., Ramón, and Trey are students astatine Urban Promise Prep School, a schoolhouse that promises to betterment and hole teen boys for futures that impact assemblage and occurrence done strict discipline. But erstwhile their main is recovered murdered, the constabulary instantly fishy the trio are responsible, and they’ll person to enactment unneurotic to way down the existent slayer and wide their names.

Then Everything Happens astatine Once by M-E Girard (January 31)

Baylee has had a immense crush connected her person Freddie for years, adjacent though she knows she’s truthful not his type. She desperately wishes that he’d springiness her a chance, but finds herself gathering and flirting with a cute miss named Alex — and Baylee is conscionable her type. But erstwhile COVID hits conscionable arsenic Freddie makes a determination connected Baylee and the full satellite is shutting down, she has to fig retired a mode to navigate her maelstrom of feelings and 2 precise antithetic emotion interests.

Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling by Elise Bryant (January 31)

Delilah is simply a spell with the travel benignant of person, adjacent if it means she ends up successful situations wherever she’s not unneurotic comfortable, and Reggie seems similar an outgoing nerd connected the outside, but he’s secretly hiding a batch of thoughts and feelings. When they randomly conscionable connected New Year’s Eve, and past support moving into each different astatine insignificant and large holidays, they can’t assistance but consciousness a propulsion toward each other…but are they genuinely being honorable astir who they are and what they want?