Romance

Becky Albertalli

Seventeen-year-old Molly has had 26, count 'em, 26 crushes and not one boyfriend. But wait, here comes number 27: sweet, adorable Reid. Could a relationship finally be in the offing? But what about flirtatious, hipster-cool Will? Doesn't he count? Love sure is complicated, and for Molly, this annoying fact of life is exacerbated by her anxiety, hypersensitivity, doubts, and even self-hatred.

Rachael Allen

Spencer has been able to see directly into Hope's bedroom window from his own since she moved to town the summer before seventh grade. From that vantage, they've been in the right place to fall for each other, but never at the right time. That hasn't kept Spencer from annotating, in detailed, drawn taxonomies, their ever-changing relationship throughout middle and high school: Hope as the only girl who likes to climb trees with him. Hope as the one person who doesn't make fun of his Tourette's. Hope as the object of his affection when she's dating other people, but who is emotionally unreachable when she isn't.

Jay Asher

Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon. It's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other.

Rachael Allen

Holland has always had to prove she was talented enough to play with the guys. Now, as a member of her high school's boy's hockey team, that means giving 100 percent on the ice, and trying to ignore any disapproving comments. Keeping her head in the game wouldn't be so tough if the cocaptain Wes wasn't always on her case. But when they bond over a love of '80s music, she starts considering breaking her no dating teammates rule.

Emma Chastain

As if starting high school wasn't daunting enough, Chloe Snow has to do it without her free-spirited writer mother-who bolted to Mexico to find her "muse"-and alongside her religious best friend, Hannah, and Hannah's judgmental, picture-perfect family. Fortunately, Chloe has a caring dad; a new best friend, Tristan; and the lead in the school's musical!

Melissa De la Cruz

Ji-su has gotten used to the pressure her parents put on her to excel in school, but the summer before her senior year they've pushed into her personal life, arranging matchmaker-organized dates (seons) so she can meet the perfect guy to complement her perfect future. But when they suddenly send her from her ultracompetitive South Korean high school to one in San Francisco, Ji-su's dating life gets even more complicated.

Maurene Goo

Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother.

Greg Howard

Told from both viewpoints, Beckett Gaines, an out-and-proud choir member, and star quarterback Jaxon Parker team up to derail the budding romance between their parents.

Nina LaCour

Spotting a girl he has sat beside in silence for a year, Mark bonds with Kate over their unrequited same-sex crushes throughout the course of a fateful pride week in San Francisco.

Mackenzi Lee

Two friends on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe stumble across a magical artifact that leads them from Paris to Venice in a dangerous manhunt shaped by pirates, highwaymen and their growing attraction to one another.

Rachael Lippincott

Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.

Sandhya Menon

A heartfelt romantic comedy told from the alternating perspectives of two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged their marriage follows the efforts of one to distance herself from the agreement and the other to woo his intended during a summer program they are attending together.

Kevin Panetta

Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band, if he can just convince his dad to let him quit their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away his days over rising dough and hot ovens. But in the midst of interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easy-going guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of breads, love begins to bloom . . . that is, if Ari doesn't ruin everything.