Grab your comfy sweaters! We’re rolling into cozy autumn reading season with some AMAZING new reads. Here’s your October 2022 YA book preview!

10/4: A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful queer coming-of-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. 

10/4: The Wolves Are Watching by Natalie Lund

A fresh, compelling, and eerie exploration of small-town living, stolen children, and wolves that watch in the woods.

10/11: So, This Is Christmas by Tracy Andreen

Let It Snow meets Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares in this new small-town Christmas romance. Now in paperback!

10/11: The Edge of Being by James Brandon

A tender and heartfelt queer YA novel about the multiplicities of grief, deeply held family secrets, and finding new love.

10/18: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.

10/25: Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds

A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might not go according to plan, in this charming winter romcom from the author of The Summer of Lost Letters.