We are updating our Adult Titles with Teen Allure list for 2026! Here are some of the best new books written for and marketed to adults, but which have a ton of appeal for teens.
When disability activist and blogger Melissa Blake was trolled for putting pictures of herself online, she turned the tables on the trolls, posted selfies on her blog, and began writing this book, Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths about Disability.
In Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung, Communist China is a hotbed of revolution in 1948, and when a mother and her daughters are abandoned by their nationalist father and his extended family, they find a way to survive on their own.
P. Djèlí Clark’s mind-twisting fantasy The Dead Cat Tail Assassins follows Eveen the Eviscerator, who is neither a cat nor does she have a tail. But she is an undead assassin, contracted by someone who wishes her to fail, as she learns when she faces her target: a version of herself having traveled through time.
In Kristen Perrin’s novel How to Solve Your Own Murder, Frances learns from a fortune teller that she will be murdered. Sixty-five years later, she summons her niece Annie to discuss her will. When Annie arrives, her aunt is found dead, and she must solve the mystery in one week if she wants to inherit the estate.
In I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones has written another meta-horror novel for fans of horror movies. When Tolly witnesses a massacre at a school party at the hands of Justin, who is undead due to a prank gone wrong, Tolly is infected by evil blood and goes on a rampage himself. Only his childhood friend Amber can remind him of his innocent past and put an end to the bloodshed.
In The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett, a retelling of an ancient Greek myth, Medea’s singular talent for witchcraft lands her in trouble with her brother and father. When the hero Jason arrives to find the golden fleece, Medea sees a chance to escape, although her freedom will bring a heavy price.
Henry H. Neff’s novel The Witchstone shows lazy demon Laszlo, now hard at work to firm up a curse he’s been overseeing or his boss will turn him to goo. When he meets human Maggie, who bears this long-standing family curse and wants to avoid it, he convinces her he can help her end it if she will help him free a spirit locked in the mythical witchstone.
Told through graphic arts by multiple artists, Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi is the story of women in Iran who have resisted the morality police, the men who have shamed and beaten them for the supposed crimes of wearing their hair out in public or attending soccer matches.
~posted by Wally B.