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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Aug 4

✨BLOG DISCUSSION✨
How can readers support diversity in publishing? PRE-ORDER DIVERSE BOOKS. Learn more about how preorders help authors of color before release & ways to support diverse books all year 📚🖊️📖 #yabooks #booksky #diversebooks #pocbooksky
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How Pre-Orders Support Diverse Authors & 3 Ways You Can Help As A Reader

Marginalized & diverse authors now more than ever need all the support they can get! According to Publishers Weekly summer 2025 Financial Report, sales of Young Adult Fiction “inched up o…

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jul 22

✨BOOK REVIEW✨
RUINED, an enemies-to-lovers YA fantasy, reads like a blueprint to modern romantasy ft. rebel fmc who infiltrates the royal family to get revenge!! full of tension & intrigue, though worldbuilding is sparse!🗡️✨
#bookblog #yabooks #booksky

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Ruined by Amy Tintera Review

Ruined by Amy Tintera (Ruined #1) Publisher: Harper Teen (Harper Collins) Release Date: May 3, 2016 Pages: 368 Available via Bookshop Cover Illustrator: Sarah Coleman Summary: A revenge that will c…

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌟ARC GIVEAWAY🌟

enter for your chance to win an arc copy of A TREACHERY OF SWANS ― sapphic 2025 YA fantasy! 🦢🌈🖤✨

📘rules📘
- RT + follow
- giveaway ends august 1, 2025
- open to US only
#booksky #yabooks #fantasybooks #yabooksky

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · Jul 3

ICYMI 🦴 THE HANGING BONES has a cover now! And I may be biased, but I think it is *stunning*

But wait, what’s it about, you ask? Well, look below for the official summary and prepare to go hunting in Wielinde Forest May 12, 2026!

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌟ARC GIVEAWAY🌟

enter for your chance to win an arc copy of A TREACHERY OF SWANS ― sapphic 2025 YA fantasy! 🦢🌈🖤✨

📘rules📘
- RT + follow
- giveaway ends august 1, 2025
- open to US only
#booksky #yabooks #fantasybooks #yabooksky

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 10

- latinoland: portrait of america's largest and least understood minority by marie arana // published w/ simon & schuster
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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 10

- tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions by valeria luiselli // published‪ @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 10

- an african american and latinx history of the united states by paul ortiz // published ‪ @beaconpress.bsky.social
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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 10

started a bookshop page if you'd like to find the recs more easily & support my work (thread below 👇) #latinxbooksky #nonfiction
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Latine Nonfiction

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 10

books to educate yourself on the latinx community during the immigration protests ― a thread 📖🌱
#booksky #latinxbooks #diversebooks

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 6

✨BOOK REVIEW✨
In my quest to rediscover literary fiction, I'd read CURIOUS KITTEN AT THE CHIBINEKO KITCHEN― a magical realism novel about a seaside restaurant & magical dishes!🍲🐈 #bookblog #translatedlit #booksky

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The Curious Kitten At The Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi Review

The Curious Kitten At The Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi (Meals To Remember #1) Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: February 4, 2025 Pages: 192 Genres: Adult Fiction, #LiteraryFiction, Magi…

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · Jun 4

✨bookmail✨
love discovering new indie publishers, thanks @memohcomics.bsky.social for sending this debut YA fantasy graphic novel DOMINION!! fantasy adventure about a guardsmen x vigilante forced to work together to solve murders 🏰🕯️🗡️ #booksky #fantasybooks #comics #indiebooks

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 28

need to read emily's book soon, its been on my tbr forever 😍📖

24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 28

diverse ya book rec of the day 💌

'the astonishing color of after' by emily x.r. pan follows leigh chen sanders as she confronts the grief of losing her mom & who is certain turned into a bird. a trip to taiwan leads leigh chasing ghosts & learning family secrets

#yabooks #diversebooks #booksky

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 28

bookmail is always the best mail 🥰📚💌 #booksky #books

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 28

I LOVE YOU SO MOCHI by sarah kuhn ― very delightful & cozy YA romance about a fashionista who travels to japan to visit family & figure out who she is! perfect for 'a cuban girl's guide to tea and tomorrow' lovers 💌🌸 #booksky #YALit #bookreview #yabooks

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 22

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 22

KRISTINA FOREST WRITES THE CUTEST YA ROMANCES!!!! pls if you need more Black romance authors to read & want sweet YA romance books, pick up kristina's books! will be reading her newest very soon (oh i'm absolutely seated bc i got a heartsick arc) 🥰😚🧡💌✨
#booksky #yabooks #diversebooks #romance

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 22

🌱pub date: october 14, 2025, with holiday house books
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bookshop (to pre-order): bookshop.org/a/892/978082...
#yalit #youngadultbooks #2025releases

A Riddle of Thorns

Check out A Riddle of Thorns - A Riddle of Thorns is a twisty Dark Academia mystery—glittering, elegant, unsettling, and perfect for fans of Divine Rivals and The Inheritance...

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 22

🌹COVER REVEAL🌹
A RIDDLE OF THORNS by sasha & sarena nanua, 2025 YA historical fantasy mystery! 1913, Paris ― Sana Gupta competes against 3 strangers in Razorthorn Manor to claim her inheritance & solve her mother's disappearance 🗝️🥀

⭐cover artist: salome totladze
#booksky #yabooks #yafantasy

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 22

my two moods as a reader #booksky

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 21

🌱🌈BOOKMAIL🌱🌈
ahh macmillan & bramble surprised me with an arc of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social a cozy fantasy companion to SPELLSHOP. the covers for these books are the cutest!! LOVE TO SEE MY COZY FANTASY COLLECTION GROW 🥰🌷🕯️
#booksky #fantasybooks #cozyfantasy #thespellshop

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 20

not sure if this makes sense, but reading books, buying books, and adding books to your tbr are 3 entirely different hobbies #booksky

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 20

may book haul 🍊💌― arc copies from bookfest weekend + publishers for 2025 ya books!! kristina forest, jackie khalilieh, lauren muñoz, angeline boulley, jamison shea, a.b. poranek, so many great authors🥰📙 #booksky #yabooks #diversebooks ‪@sonorareyes.bsky.social ‪ @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social

book haul flat lay with arcs of young adult books

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · May 8

📖 what other book recommendations do you have for YA fantasy in this space? + have you read any of these??

✒️authors: @kendareblake.bsky.social @tarasimauthor.bsky.social, kelly andrew, i.v. marie, zoe hana mikuta, @vvmontalban.bsky.social, nicki pau preto, @linseymiller.bsky.social #bookblogger

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