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Staff Favorites: Teen Edition 2025

Every year, we ask staff members around the library system what their favorite reads published in this year were. 2025 is no different, and we have a stellar lineup of fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels.

User from The Seattle Public Library

16 items

  • For a contemporary urban fantasy, look no further than Ibi Zoboi’s latest, (S)kin, which follows two girls. Their lives intersect as one follows her mother’s path as a soucouyant, a shape-shifting witch who feeds on others’ life force, and the…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
  • In Xan Kaur’s gothic horror novel When Devils Sing, four teens explore the disappearance of another teen in a small Georgian town named Carrion, which coincides with the re-emergence of cicadas after thirteen years. As they uncover terrifying…
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025.
  • The science fiction novel Augmented, by Kenechi Udogu, follows Akaego as she steps up to become augmented, using mind control and tech implants to help her grow new plants and trees in a devastated future London. An outside group warns her against…
    Book, 2025London : Faber and Faber Limited, 2025.
  • In Mahogany L. Browne’s novel A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe, six youths from Brooklyn tell interconnected stories of their lives during COVID. Sometimes poetry, sometimes prose, the novel captures the experience of living on the…
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025]
  • Usually known for her evocative historical fiction, Lauren Wolk has crafted a contemporary novel full of secrets called Candle Island. After her father dies in a car crash, young Lucretia and her famous artist mother leave the big city and move to a…
    Book, 2025New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2025.
  • Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem’s novel Daughter of Doom transports readers to 870 AD and a Viking village in Denmark. Yrsa, a Viking girl born with a crooked foot, cannot move easily, which leaves her to spend much of her time with the newly captured…
    Book, 2025Montclair ; Amsterdam ; Hoboken : Levine Querido, 2025.
  • Sophia Lee’s debut novel, Eliza, from Scratch, follows Eliza Park as she plans her perfect senior year in high school. When she is somehow enrolled in Culinary Arts class, her lack of knowledge and ability to cook leaves her foundering. The presence…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
  • Erin Entrada Kelly’s new novel, On Again, Awkward Again, follows two high school freshmen, Pacy and Cecil, as they meet and fall in love at first sight. Because both are quite shy around the other person, they rely on the questionable advice of…
    Book, 2025New York : Amulet Books, 2025.
  • Dean Atta’s novel in verse, I Can’t Even Think Straight, follows Kai and Matt as they navigate their queer identities. Kai wants to come out at school, but Matt fears his parents’ reaction if they find out he (Matt) is gay, so he pressures Kai to…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
  • Death in the Jungle

    Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

    Fleming, Candace
    Known for other explorations of crime and mystery, the author here chronicles the rise and fall of Jim Jones, who led over 900 followers of his cult to commit mass suicide in 1978.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2025]
  • Agnes Lee crafted a beautiful, haunting graphic novel titled 49 Days, which, in Buddhist tradition, is the number of days the dead must inhabit the afterlife before moving on. The story follows, almost wordlessly, Korean American Kit, as she makes…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Montclair : LQ, Levine Querido, [2024]
  • Ursula K. LeGuin’s fantasy classic, The Wizard of Earthsea, was finally given the graphic treatment it deserves (by Fred Fordham) with the release of volume one in the series. This adaptation captures details that others have missed, notably the…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, [2025]
  • Trung Le Nguyen, who created the beautiful coming-out story The Magic Fish, follows up this year with Angelica and the Bear Prince, a story about a girl grieving her grandmother and finding solace in the friendship of a theater mascot dressed as a…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : RH Graphic, 2025.
  • Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi began in 2024, but volumes 3 through 5 were published this year. The series follows two cats – pampered Maruru and tough Hachi – as they make their life on the streets of Tokyo.
    Graphic Novel, 2025[Los Angeles, California] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2025]
  • Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi began in 2024, but volumes 3 through 5 were published this year. The series follows two cats – pampered Maruru and tough Hachi – as they make their life on the streets of Tokyo.
    Graphic Novel, 2025[Los Angeles, California] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2025]
  • Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi began in 2024, but volumes 3 through 5 were published this year. The series follows two cats – pampered Maruru and tough Hachi – as they make their life on the streets of Tokyo.
    Graphic Novel, 2025[Los Angeles, California] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2025]