Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Time Out by Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, and Carlyn Greenwald
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
Fake It by Lily Seabrooke (Contemporary)
Pack of Her Own by Elena Abbott (Paranormal)
Cinder Ella by ST Lynn (Fantasy)
The Weight of Living by M.A. Hinkle (Contemporary)
Roller Girl by Vanessa North (Contemporary)
Bonus: These are all Adult, but in YA, check out contemporary graphic novel Cheer Up! by Crystal Frazier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter
The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill (MG GN)
Tell Me How it Ends by Quinton Li
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
The Farian War by K.B. Wagers
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
The Salvagers and The Starmetal Symphony by Alex White
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine
Viral Airwaves by Claudie Arseneault
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern
Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Forward March by Skye Quinlan (f/f)
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (m/f)
You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie (f/f)
Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (m/f)
Planning Perfect by Haley Neil (f/f)
Bonus: Coming later this year, Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See (m/f) and Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda DeWitt (m/m)
Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum
The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
This is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde
Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley
Alice Austen Lived Here and Green by Alex Gino
Jamie by L.D. Lapinski
Ana on the Edge and Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Kevin Sylvester and Basil Sylvester
For part I, click here.
Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (historical m/m YA Romeo & Juliet)
Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth (text), Stephanie Kate Strohm (text), and Jamie Green (art) (contemporary YA fantasy graphic novel Twelfth Night)
Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra (pan m/f contemp rom Much Ado About Nothing)
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu (sci-fi thriller Hamlet)
Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese (pan m/f contemp rom Much Ado About Nothing)
Bonus: The followup to Twelfth Grade Night, King Cheer (contemporary YA graphic novel King Lear), releases in October.