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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