What are you reading in 2021?

I have Dragon Hoops on deck as my next YA read. So glad to see it won a Printz honor!

I'm about to start Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks!

Not much YA recently, but I did read the historical fantasy West of the Moon by Katherine Langrish. (Vikings, trolls, and 11th-century Canada.)

I just read Dancing in the dark, an Australian YA novel about an Orthodox Jewish girl who wants to learn ballet against her family's wishes. It was a nice read.

I've been reading Tweet Cute - a cute YA romance inspired by You've Got Mail about teenaged overachievers trading insults over rival grilled cheeses at their family's restaurants.

I’m reading The missing of Clairdelune, second in the fantasy quartet The mirror visitor. It’s translated from french and I’m really enjoying it.

I just started A Pho Love Story, about two teens whose families own rival pho restaurants.

>7 curioussquared: Oh, do let me know what you think - I am excited to read that one (but will make sure I have some pho nearby)

>8 Caramellunacy: I will definitely post thoughts when I'm done! I started it before bed last night and only got 2% in before conking out, so no real opinions so far :) Except that I need some pho, stat.

>5 Caramellunacy: okay, that sounds absolutely adorable!

I have been enjoying the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. I haven't been able to put them down, and will be sad when I finish the series

>10 litwitch: It was cute and low-angst, which was very much what I wanted about now (although not as much as I ended up wanting both a grilled cheese sandwich and some of Pepper's monster bakes - thankfully, the author has the recipe for the monstrosity posted.

I have already picked up her latest from the library You Have a Match - wherein a young woman learns through an ancestry/dna website that she has an Instagram influencer sister...

>12 Caramellunacy: okay, that recipe looks so delicious. 🤤🤤 Not so good on my waistline but hey, you can't have it all, right? And by that I mean it's time to get bigger pants because I'd 100% eat a serving of that. LOL

I'm definitely adding her to my to-read list!

I'm reading The grace year, another feminist dystopian novel which I didn't realise was YA when I bought it. It's very gripping so far.

I'm making an effort at the YA Book Prize shortlist, starting with 1930s theatre romance A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood.

>15 konallis: "1930s theatre romance" - AND SOLD!!!

>16 Caramellunacy: It's good fun. I'm tearing through it!

>14 Sakerfalcon: Did you finish The Grace Year yet? I loved it.

>18 litwitch: I just finished it! It was very good, but I felt the middle part dragged with too much time spent on the romance. I would really like to see what happened next, if Tierney and her cohort managed to change things at all, and what the next group of grace year girls do when they return.

>18 litwitch:
>19 Sakerfalcon:
I have Grace Year out from the library right now. Guess I'll read that one next.

>8 Caramellunacy: Following up on A Pho Love Story -- it was very sweet! You will crave pho a lot. I don't think it was super remarkable, but definitely a cute, fun read.

I'm reading Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson, the sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. This is another from the YA Book Prize shortlist, though I loved the first book and probably would have read it anyway.

>22 konallis: I also really enjoyed A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - I have the sequel here somewhere and am really just waiting to re-read the first to refresh my memory as I feel like the first time through I just swallowed it whole!

>23 Caramellunacy: I possibly should have done the same. I remember the central mystery pretty well, but I'd forgotten some of the supporting characters who play significant parts in the sequel. I spent the first chapters trying to remember who was who.

I'm now reading Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence, another from the YA Book Prize shortlist.

I just started reading K-pop confidential and it's great so far! I've always loved stories about kids/teens training for success on stage, even since reading Noel Streatfeild as a kid, and this is like the 21st century version!

I recently read Wranglestone by Darren Charlton, a gay love story set during the zombie apocalypse. Mixed feelings about this one: I thought it started solidly, but became a bit formless towards the end.

I've just read Cinderella is dead which unfortunately didn't live up to my expectations. It featured an implausibly-constructed misogynistic society, a dislikable and inconsistent heroine, insta-love, and so much stupidity in the backstory. The one notable positive about the book is that the characters are Black by default. I imagine it is a refreshing change for young POC to read a book where this is the case; I just wish it had been better.

Recently finished reading True Believer by Virginia Wolff; it won the National Book Award.
It's a sequel to Make Lemonade. Both are great.

Over the weekend I read Rainbow Rowell's Carry On and Wayward Son. Enjoyed them both and looking forward to the third and last of the Simon Snow stories in July.

>30 Jenson_AKA_DL: I really liked those two and have preordered the third :)

I finally got to Concrete Rose over the weekend, which was just as excellent as I expected, if maybe not quite on the same level as The Hate U Give and On the Come Up.

Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood, a coming-of-age story set in Italy in the 1930s. Based on Much Ado About Nothing, and incorporating the rise of fascism alongside romantic comedy.

i liked Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier.
A retelling of the twelve Dancing Princesses

I'm reading The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, which creates a background story for the brides of Dracula.

>34 konallis: That has been on my TBR pile for ages! Let us know what you think of it.

I'm reading Charlie Jane Anders' YA debut, Victories greater than death. It's similar to Aurora rising, in that it's about a disparate group of humans and aliens facing a crisis in space, but without the juvenile humour of the Kaufman book. I'm enjoying it a lot so far.