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Kelly and Erica highlight the best of September's new YA books, including some feminist nonfiction, thrilling mysteries, goth-y fun, and more.
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Show Notes:
Self-Silencing Is Making Women Sick
Twilight Will Be Back in Theaters This October
The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
YA Novels in Verse for 2025
Truth Is by Hanna V. Sawyerr
Arm in Arm: The Grimke Sisters' Fight for Abolition and Women' s Rights by Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America by Deborah Heiligman
You’ve Goth My Heart by L.C. Rosen
By Invitation Only by Alexandra Brown Chang
When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Niven
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis
Through Our Teeth by Pamela N. Harris
Who’s All Going (To Die)? by Lisa Springer
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry
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