Teen Read Month 2025

Spooky and pumpkin spicy reads for Teen Read Month 2025

Updated September 8, 2025
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Glorious rivals
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
Paper Book
FIVE PLAYERS REMAIN. Seven Players arrived on Hawthorne Island to play a billionaire's game. Now only five remain, and the race to the finish line is on. EVERYONE IS A LIAR. The heat turns up on the competition - and between the players - and...
Don't Let The Forest In
Drews, C G.
Paper Book
The deliciously dark and dangerously addictive New York Times bestseller, from the author of the sensational The Boy Who Steals Houses. Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education in this queer dark academia YA horror, filled with...
After life
Forman, Gayle
Paper Book
The extraordinary new young adult novel from bestselling author of If I Stay, Gayle Forman.
Immortal Dark
Girma, Tigest.
Paper Book
A lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister in this dangerously romantic dark academia debut.Orphan Kidan Adane is the heiress to a fallen House of humans bound to vampiric creatures known as draniacs. As a...
Murder between friends
Lawson, Liz
Paper Book
Two years ago, the murder of a neighbor tore three best friends apart--now the killer is going to walk free and the ex-friends are going to have to face the past--and each other--in another twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Agathas.
I am not Jessica Chen
Liang, Ann
Paper Book
Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will...
To steal from thieves
Lobb, M. K.
Paper Book
In this high-stakes heist novel, an alchemologist and a con man team up to steal a rare necklace--but complicated feelings of attraction and deception threaten to destroy everything and everyone they love--for fans of Alexandra Bracken and Judy I. Lin. Within the...
Immortal Consequences
Marie, I V.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I.V. Marie's thrilling dark academia debut set at a magical boarding school in purgatory where some fates are worse than death ... For fans of Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education. ...
Everything is poison
McCullough, Joy
Paper Book
This historical novel in prose and verse tells the story of a deadly secret hiding in plain sight and of the women who risk everything to provide care for those with nowhere else to turn, perfect for fans of Blood Water Paint and The Lost Apothecary. Early...
The Girl You Know
Rose, Elle Gonzalez.
Paper Book
An unputdownable and utterly compulsive dark academia thriller about who is allowed to break the rules and who suffers the consequences, perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and Holly Jackson. The week before Luna's twin sister Solina was...
DeadHappy
Silver, Josh
Paper Book
Be prepared to be scared again in the nail-biting sequel to HappyHead. 'One of the very best voices in YA right now.' Benjamin Dean FRIENDS, WELCOME TO ELMHALLOW. YOU ARE THE CHOSEN TEN.  By some miracle, Seb has survived the HappyHead programme, only to find...
The Otherwhere Post
Taylor, Emily J.
Paper Book
A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick! An instant New York Times bestseller! The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique returns with this stunning dark academic fantasy full of deadly magic and dangerous secrets, perfect for fans of...
Song of a Blackbird
van Lieshout, Maria.
Paper Book
Fictionalised but based on true events, Song of a Blackbird has two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a thrilling true story of a WWII-era bank heist carried out by Dutch Resistance fighters.
A Language Of Dragons
Williamson, S F.
Paper Book
The most exciting debut of 2025 - an incredible fantasy Dark Academia, perfect for fans of Babel, Fourth Wing, and the Scholomance trilogy EVERY FIRE STARTS WITH A SINGLE SPARK. Welcome to Bletchley Park... with dragons. London, 1923. Dragons soar through the...

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