Want a road trip story that isn’t set in the U.S. and features a bisexual disaster of a lead character? This is one for your TBR.

Krishna is in at her dream college, yet she feels like a complete mess. She’s spent the summer in India flirting with Amrit, her neighbor, but nothing came of it. Krishna is convinced she’ll be the only college freshman who has never even been kissed.

So, when her flight back home is delayed, and she receives a flirty text from Amrit, Krishna decides she’s going all in, right now. Amrit is miles away at a family wedding, so Krishna reaches out to her cousin, Priti, for help. Priti needs to dial in more help, too, in the form of her best friend, Rudra Desai–that’s who has the car.

The three are on the road to this wedding so that Krishna can have her happily ever after with Amrit before it’s too late. Except, well, feelings might be bubbling up inside Krishna for someone else on this trip (ahem, Rudra), whose heart may already belong to her cousin.

Nick Carrington wants out of Greenwood, Oklahoma, but he didn’t expect those dreams to come true thanks to tragedy. He’s now forced to begin anew in Harlem, and he has an acceptance to West Egg Academy in his hands. It’s billed as an integrated and prestigious academy, but is it really? Nick’s experiencing some of the same prejudice he did before in Oklahoma. Making matters more complicated are the feelings Nick has for Jay Gatsby Jr, the son of the Academy’s founder.

Nick wanted to escape to make a name for himself as a journalist. But when he exposes some of the truth behind West Egg Academy, the consequences are quick. Now Nick and Jay have to decide whether to stay put and not make waves or if they’re ready to burn the entire institution down by revealing its secrets.

This is a queer remix of The Great Gatsby, and it sounds great.

Eight teens went on a school trip to Hollow Lake National Park, but only five of them returned. Those five carry with them the trauma of losing three of their classmates and what they experienced in those woods.

Now, those survivors are being targeted by someone or something. Evie then receives a threat: if she doesn’t return to the island, she’ll lose all of her loved ones.

Evie and the rest of the survivors are now heading back to the island, and it’s not going to be any more fun than before. They’re there to face the secrets they faced before and confront the person or thing that has been following them all.

Naomi Ward and her family are spending the summer in a cabin located in Sparksburg, Virginia. It’s rural and remote. Everything about the place gives Naomi bad vibes from the beginning, but she seems to be the only person particularly concerned.

So she begins to investigate the town and quickly learns that Sparksburg was a sundown town. Everything she was feeling about the town seems to be confirmed now.

As she’s learning about Sparksburg, Naomi is also being haunted by the ghost of a girl outside her window. This leads Naomi to learn about two girls who’ve recently gone missing in town, and despite everyone telling her she should enjoy her summer, Naomi wants to find out what happened to them.

To get to the bottom of the mystery, Naomi will not only have to confront a local who has been giving off bad vibes, but she’ll also have to wrestle with her own trauma.

Stratton’s book is being compared to Jordan Peele and Tiffany D. Jackson, and I’m all in on this work of historical horror. A couple of other YA books that tackle sundown towns, which might make for a meaningful reading list or potential read-alikes, are The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson and Split the Sky by Maria Arnold (and, of course, the classic work of nonfiction, Sundown Towns by James Loewen).

In the interest of continuing to track this, Quindlen’s new release will be available on shelves in both hardcover and paperback formats. I really hope the dual release continues to increase this year — it’s a nice way to give readers the choice that best suits their needs.

This one’s actually a rerelease, too, so you may be familiar with it.

Hannah plans on having a fun senior year. That’s all she wants. Unfortunately for her, she begins to fall hard for another girl, and that girl happens to be her best friend Baker. Hannah knows she should seek out the guy everyone says is right for her, and she should follow the straight and narrow as defined by the small town politics and faith of her Louisiana home.

Too bad the heart wants what the heart wants.

What unfolds is a story about deciding between following what people think you should want and what you truly want for yourself.

Jenna Chen lives in the shadow of her extremely perfect cousin, Jessica Chen. Jessica’s got the grades. She’s got the social life. She’s got the perfect looks. Jessica’s even got an acceptance to Harvard.

Jenna Chen could never.

At least, she couldn’t until one day she wished to be her cousin and woke up to find that wish had come true. Now everything is perfect, or is it? Perhaps the idea of perfect Jessica Chen is something entirely different than actually being Jessica Chen. It doesn’t help that people don’t even seem to remember that Jenna Chen was a real person, too.

Can Jenna ever return to being herself, or is she destined to be Jessica Chen forever?

There’s still a dearth of YA novels that get a paperback first printing, but Dass’s standalone supernatural thriller is among them.

It’s almost graduation, and Maya Woods wants to have one last cruise around her Caribbean island with besties Pearl, Erica, and Lystra, to celebrate. But when the girls are forced to make an emergency stop on Annatto, an island avoided by locals and tourists for its rumored monsters, things go from bad to worse. Erica turns up dead, and the remaining three girls have to flee before bringing her body back.

Grief rushes through their small community, and now the girls are forced to face accusations, as well as their personal traumas, as they figure out what really happened to Erica. Was it an accident, or was it something more sinister?