January 2024 Young Adult Releases

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

January 2 ✨ A Fragile Enchantment - Allison Saft @allisonhsaft ✨ Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White - Amélie Wen Zhao @ameliewenzhao ✨ Just Happy to Be Here - Naomi Kanakia @rhkanakia ✨ If You Can't Take the Heat - Michael Ruhlman @ruhlman ✨ Stay With My Heart - Tashie Bhuiyan @tashiebhuiyan ✨ Cupid's Revenge - Wibke Brueggemann @wibkebrueggemann ✨ Ghost Roast - Shawnee Gibbs @shawnee.gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs @nelletheelle ✨ Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver @mason_deaver ✨ Sky's End - Marc J Gregson @mjg_write

January 9 ✨ Somewhere in the Deep - Tanvi Berwah @tanviberwah ✨ The Atlas of Us - Kristin Dwyer @kristindwyer ✨ The Lost Ones - Lauren DeStefano @laurendestefanoauthor ✨ Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment - Arushi Avachat @arushi.24 ✨ Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce @kristylboyce ✨ Shut Up, This Is Serious - Carolina Ixta @carolinaixta ✨ Lunar New Year Love Story - Gene Luen Yang @geneluenyang ✨ We're Never Getting Home - Tracy Badua @tracybaduawrites

January 16 ✨ A Drop of Venom - Sajni Patel @sajnipatelbooks ✨ Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole ✨ If I Promise You Wings - A.K. Small @aksmallwords ✨ Evergreen - Devin Greenlee @Dev.L.Lee ✨ So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole @wordsiren ✨ Beasts of War - Ayana Gray @ayanagray_ ✨ Sun Don't Shine - Crissa-Jean Chappell @crissachappell ✨ Escaping Mr. Rochester - L.L. McKinney @ll_mckinney

January 23 ✨ Destroy the Day - Brigid Kemmerer @brigidkemmerer ✨ My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy @bdkennedybooks ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland @km_sutherland ✨ Into the Sunken City - Dinesh Thiru @dineshmt ✨ You're Breaking My Heart - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich ✨ The Getaway List - Emma Lord @dilemmalord ✨ Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports - Dahlia Adler @missdahlelama & Jennifer Iacopelli @jennifercarolyn ✨ The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee - Ellen Oh @elloecho ✨ Not Dead Enough - Tyffany D. Neiheiser @writer_tyffany

January 30 ✨ Just Say Yes - Goldy Moldavsky @goldywrites ✨ Red - Annie Cardi @anniecardi ✨ A Reckless Oath - Kaylie Smith @kaylsmoon ✨ Poemhood Our Black Revival - Anthology ✨ Wander in the Dark - Jumata Emill @brownboywriting ✨ The Dark Fable - Katherine Harbour @katharbour77

karina: shut up

ace: or what

karina: or i'll marry you

ace:

ace: *starts yodelling*

Q: What new release are you most excited for today?. I'm so glad A Show For Two is officially out in the world! I read Counting Down With You back in March and fell in love with @tashiebhuiyan’s writing, so I can't wait to start A Show For Two - my audiobook hold just came in and I'm listening to it today. Here's a quick synopsis from the author on Goodreads, which is way more fun than the official synopsis LOL. If this sounds like something you'd like, try it out! Me personally, I'm always here for books that are love letters to NYC, my city!. A SHOW FOR TWO is a YA contemporary novel and a love letter to New York City. It's inspired by when Tom Holland went undercover as a student at Tashie's high school during her senior year which is so wild and cool! This book has hate-to-love, a POC romance since Mina is Bangladeshi and Emmitt is Half-Chinese, a celebrity love interest, a complex sister relationship, in-depth discussions of mental health, a chaotic film club, loads of gen z antics, and nuanced family dynamics as the main character navigates her last year of high school. #AlltheBooksMay22 - Favorite genre #novelebookreads - Romance books #SpringFlowersMay22 - New book Tuesday #LoversBetweenCoversMay22 - Star crossed #LMSMay2022 - Right in the feels #booknookbingo - New release #AShowForTwo #CountingDownWithYou #TashieBhuiyan #inkyardpress #pocrepresentation #boostingya #yalit #ireadYA #newbookalert #readingisfun #fortheloveofbooks #readreadread #booktography #yaromance #libraryofbookstagram #librarybooks #bookishflatlay #romancebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CdYSM04LXm4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Evening rooftop posing with my copy of Counting Down with You, the young and lovely @tashiebhuiyan’s debut novel 💗 published by @inkyardpress at @harpercollins with cover artwork by moi ✨ out now! Thank you @lau.gigi.lau for sending me a copy! 🌸 #countingdownwithyou #inkyardpress #tashiebhuiyan #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverart #harpercollins #illustration #digitalillustration #illustrationartists #illustratorsoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CTMsreHMgOG/?utm_medium=tumblr

Happy May! Because Counting Down with You is all about passing time, I decided to share a page of my bullet journal as well, which is what I use to keep track of time. I particularly love that Counting Down With You is written by @tashiebhuiyan who is Gen Z, just like her characters. It really does make a difference. The book is out from Inkyard Press tomorrow (May 4th!) so you can read it too. My review is linked in bio if you want all my thoughts and check out the comments for the synopsis. Because this post is with Turn the Pages Tours, there’s also a giveaway: ********************************* Up for grabs, we have ONE (1) physical copy of Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan. To enter, follow the steps below: Follow me (your @ here), @turnthepagetours, @tashiebhuiyan and @inkyardpress Comment down below answering this question and tag @turnthepagetours in the SAME comment: [put your own question here!] For extra entries: Tag a friend in the comments (each friend tagged is an additional entry) Follow @belleeeey_, @acourtofcoffeeandbooksblog and @natreviewsbooks Enter on each of the other hosts’ stops! DISCLAIMER: This giveaway will run until May 6th at 12 AM CST. This giveaway will be open to US residents only. No giveaway accounts allowed. This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram. #countingdownwithyou #cdwy #tashiebhuiyan #inkyardpress #cdwytour #booktour #bookstagramtour #bookgiveaway #turnthepagestours #bookstagram #yabooks #yabookstagram #bookworm #iloveya https://www.instagram.com/p/COabUSsLN0F/?igshid=1ksog9qwd6kb5

That undercover story is inspiring a YA novel lol

moi:  Yeah, I saw that.  If anyone wants to check it out, go to @tashiebhuiyan on Twitter.

tashiebhuiyan: SO I'M PRETTTTTY SURE HARRY IS GOING TO SING KIWI ON SNL

Counting down with you by TashieBhuiyan

#countingdownwithyou by TashieBhuiyan

Spolier Free Review!

Rating⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(5/5)

Stop what your doing and read this book right NOW. It's going on my top 10 because it's so amazing.

This book is everything I wanted in a YA romance and more. The way the characters text, and talk to each other. The way the 2 main characters interact, all of it is just perfectection! It's also very realistic and relatable. This book is so good. I love how the author handled the family issues and the anxiety, both in very realistic and believable ways(sometimes when I'm reading about mental health struggles in contemporary books, I have to put the book down because it can be very werid how its handled) I'm very sad that I inhaled this book in a weekend, because it's that good.

Character development:

If you want a book where the main character has some major struggles, but manages to move past them and grow with the support of her friends. This is a good book for you. The Main character showed so much growth, and I just can't help but be proud of her. (You can tell I'm attached to this book right?)

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I’m very happy to share the book cover artwork I got to make for the brilliant, 22 year old, Bangladeshi American writer @tashiebhuiyan’s wonderful and charming debut novel, Counting Down With You 💘 ‘Counting Down With You is a young adult contemporary romance in which a Bangladeshi teen gets roped into a ~fake dating facade~ with the bad boy of her high school. Featuring a chaotic girl squad, kissing in the rain, moonlit dinners and far more...✨’ It’s also a story about family and the difficulties of independence. On The Quiet Pond - a book blog, Tashie talks about how writing Counting Down With You was a love letter to her Bangladeshi culture and identity. The cover features the protagonists Karina Ahmed and Ace Clyde. Published by @inkyardpress at @harpercollins and coming out on 4th May 2021! You can pre-order the book now from: @barnesandnoble @americanbooksellers @amazon @bookdepository And add it on @goodreads ✨ Read an exclusive excerpt and view the cover reveal for Counting Down With You on the book blog The Quiet Pond: https://thequietpond.com/2020/09/22/exclusive-cover-reveal-excerpt-counting-down-with-you-by-tashie-bhuiyan-a-ya-contemporary-romance-with-fake-dating/ Thanks to AD @lau.gigi.lau for her superb direction! 💜 #countingdownwithyou #inkyardpress #tashiebhuiyan #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverart #harpercollins #bookcoverreveal https://www.instagram.com/p/CGPoj6oHul0/?igshid=yeszugc0jsxz