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Below, you will find the top 10 choices from the full list selected by the 2024 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Committee of the Young Adult Library Services [...]

Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love with You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud. By Becky Holmes. Apr. 2024. 224p. Unbound, paper, $16.95 (9781789651638). 364.163. Holmes, a personality on [...]

DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools. By Max Felker-Kantor. Apr. 2024. 288p. Univ. of North Carolina, paper, $27.95 (9781469679044). 362.29. Felker-Kantor (Policing Los Angeles, [...]

Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership. By Chaya Milchtein. Apr. 2024. 304p. illus. Little, Brown, paper, $19.99 (9780316565516). 388.3. Since 2017, Milchtein has been online, demystifying car ownership and [...]

Herbs and the Earth: An Evocative Excursion into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs. By Henry Beston. Apr. 2024. 152p. illus. Godine Nonpareil, paper, $18.95 (9781567927733); e-book (9781567927740). [...]

The Long Hallway. By Richard Scott Larson. Apr. 2024. 192p. Univ. of Wisconsin, paper, $21.95 (9780299347246). 791.43616. Larson first viewed John Carpenter's classic horror film Halloween when he was nine, [...]

Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within. By Jim Wilson. Apr. 2024. 264p. illus. New Book Authors, paper, $18.95 [...]

* Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring. By Brad Gooch. Mar. 2024. 512p. illus. Harper, $42 (9780062698261); e-book (9780062698285). 709.2. His alphabet was unlike any other, comprised of [...]

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins. By Sonny Rollins. Ed. by Sam V. H. Reese. Apr. 2024. 172p. illus. NYRB, paper, $17.95 (9781681378268). 788.7. Saxophone virtuoso Rollins began keeping notebooks in [...]

Vegan Candles: 21 Soy and Plant-Based Candles for Beginners. By Delphine Reposeur. Apr. 2024. 80p. illus. Stackpole, paper, $17.95 (9780811772808). 745.593. In 2017, Reposeur couldn't find candles that were natural, [...]

String Quilts: Sustainable Patchwork Projects Using Fabric Scraps. By Carolyn Forster. Mar. 2024. 176p. illus. Search, paper, $25.95 (9781800920828). 746.46. Waste not: put all fabric scraps into a string quilt [...]

Bones Worth Breaking By David Martinez. Apr. 2024. 400p. Farrar/MCD, paper, $18 (9780374610951). 810. Author Martinez wanted to write this memoir with his younger brother, Mike, an energetic man who [...]

Instructions for Traveling West. By Joy Sullivan. Apr. 2024. 160p. Dial, paper, $17 (9780593597613); e-book (9780593729069). 811. Sullivan's highly accessible debut collection can be read as a loosely assembled memoir [...]

* The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. By Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung. May 2024. 336p. Penguin, paper, $20 (9780143133285); e-book (9780525505044). 973-0495. The duo who won the American Book [...]

A Kind of Madness. By Uche Okonkwo. Apr. 2024. 208p. Tin House, paper, $16.95 (9781959030386). Okonkwo's debut short-story collection is an artistic exploration of the hidden lives of ordinary people. [...]

Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life. By Helen Fisher. May 2024. 400p. Gallery, paper, $18.99 (9781982142704); e-book (9781982142728). Joe-Nathan lives his life by rules and routines; on weekdays, he brings a [...]

The Heirloom. By Jessie Rosen. May 2024. 320p. Putnam, paper, $18 (9780593716052). Shea is in love with John, but when he proposes with an heirloom ring, she can't stop thinking [...]

Long after We Are Gone. By Terah Shelton Harris. May 2024. 432p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $16.99 (9781728265773); e-book (9781728265797). Shelton Harris (One Summer in Savannah, 2023) returns with another heartrending story [...]

The Lies among Us. By Sarah Beth Durst. Apr. 2024. 334p. Amazon/Lake Union, paper, $16.99 (9781662514722); e-book (9781662514715). Leah and Hannah are sisters who have just lost their mother. They [...]

A Magical Girl Retires. By Seolyeon Park. Tr. by Anton Hur. Apr. 2024. 176p. illus. HarperVia, paper, $21.99 (9780063373266); e-book (9780063373273). Magical girls--think Sailor Moon--have been inhabiting manga, manhwa, comics, [...]

The Possessed. By Witold Gombrowicz. Tr. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Mar. 2024. 416p. Black Cat, paper, $17 (9780802162526); e-book (9780802162533). Gothic themes and melodramatic flourishes dramatize a modernist novel preoccupied with [...]

Sleepaway. By Kevin Prufer. Apr. 2024. 184p. Acre, paper, $20 (9781946724717). Renowned poet Prufer's debut novel is an excellent, slow-moving apocalyptic narrative set in 1984 in a small American town [...]

Table for One. By Yun Ko-eun. Tr. by Lizzie Buehler. Apr. 2024. 264p. Columbia Univ., paper, $20 (9780231192033). The title story in Ko-Eun's (The Disaster Tourist, 2020) short-story collection features [...]

Tired Ladies Take a Stand. By Gretchen Anthony. May 2024. 336p. Park Row, paper, $18.99 (9780778307969); e-book (9780369746887). Anthony (The Book Hater's Book Club, 2022) presents a story about four [...]

What's Not Mine. By Nora Decter. Apr. 2024. 248p. ECW, paper, $18.95 (9781770417649). Bria is 15 and surviving the summer as best she can. With her dad away to address [...]

Under a Neon Sun. By Kate Gale. Apr. 2024. 240p. Three Rooms, paper, $16 (9781953103499). In her debut novel, Gale examines the uncertainty and chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic through [...]

* Cast a Cold Eye. By Robbie Morrison. Apr. 2024. 448p. Bantam, paper, $18 (9780593723333); e-book (9780593723340). Glaswegian coppers Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid return (after Edge of the Grave, [...]

Night Falls on Predicament Avenue. By Jaime Jo Wright. Apr. 2024. 384p. Bethany House, paper, $17.99 (9780764241451). When night falls on a small-town bed and breakfast in Iowa, secrets from [...]

Nothing without Me. By Helen Monks Takhar. Apr. 2024. 400p. Random, paper, $18 (9780593596180); e-book (9780593596197). April Eden is on the verge of greatness. Her directorial debut, The Vanished Woman, [...]

Point Zero. By Seicho Matsumoto. Tr. by Louise Heal Kawai. Mar. 2024. 286p. Bitter Lemon, paper, $16.95 (9781913394936). Sometimes a novel can serve as a snapshot of a national cultural [...]

Under the Paper Moon. By Shaina Steinberg. Apr. 2024. 304p. Kensington, $27 (9781496747808); e-book (9781496747815). During World War II, aeronautics heiress Evelyn Bishop, desperate to find her brother in a [...]

Young Rich Widows. By Vanessa Lillie and others. Apr. 2024. 352p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $16.99 (9781728294018); e-book (9781728294025). Young Rich Wives is a fun, campy thriller that will have readers laughing [...]

Flight of the Wild Swan. By Melissa Pritchard. Mar. 2024. 416p. Bellevue, paper, $18.99 (9781954276215); e-book (9781954276222). Drawing on Florence Nightingale's extensive letters and journals, Pritchard strips away sentimental imagery [...]

The Kiss Countdown. By Etta Easton. Apr. 2024. 336p. Berkley, paper, $18 (9780593640227); e-book (9780593640234). In this adorable debut romance novel, Amerie Price runs into her red flag of an [...]

The British Booksellers. By Kristy Cambron. Apr. 2024. Thomas Nelson, paper, $17.99 (9780785232247); e-book (9780785232254). Christy Award-winner Cambron's latest is set during the years prior to and during WWI and [...]

The Triumph of the Lions. By Stefania Auci. Tr. by Katherine Gregor and Howard Curtis. Mar. 2024. 384p. HarperVia, paper, $18.99 (9780062931702); e-book (9780062931726). This second book (after The Florios [...]

Late Bloomer. By Mazey Eddings. Apr. 2024. 400p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $18 (9781250847089); e-book (9781250847096). Eddings (The Plus One, 2023) delivers another unique and refreshing romance, accurately representing neurodiversity in [...]

Old Flames and New Fortunes. By Sarah Hogle. Apr. 2024. 384p. Putnam, paper, $18 (9780593715055); e-book (9780593715062). Moonville, a quaint town in rural Ohio, is where Romina Tempest and her [...]

Sandcastle Inn. By Irene Hannon. Apr. 2024. 352p. Revell, paper, $17.99 (9780800741921); e-book (9781493444809). Book 10 in the Hope Harbor series offers strong characters and positive yet realistic relationships. After [...]

When I Think of You. By Myall Ariel. Apr. 2024. 368p. Berkley, paper, $18 (9780593640593); e-book (9780593640609). Danny is a movie director, a legacy talent who inherited his famous father's [...]

One Last Word. By Suzanne Park. Apr. 2024. 288p. Avon, paper, $18.99 (9780063216099); e-book (9780063216105). If you died, are there things that you would want to say to that ex-boss [...]

The Orchids of Ashthorne Hall. By Rebecca Anderson. Apr. 2024. Shadow Mountain, paper, $16.99 (9781639932351). Botanist Hyacinth Bell is an expert in the care of orchids and a decided novice [...]

The Stranger I Wed. By Harper St. George. Apr. 2024. 368p. Berkley, paper, $18.99 (9780593441008); e-book (9780593441015). The inheritance left to Cora Dove and her two sisters by their paternal [...]

The House That Horror Built. By Christina Henry. May 2024. 336p. Berkley, paper, $18 (9780593638217); e-book (9780593638224). Harry Adams, a single mom with a 14-year-old son, lost her restaurant-server position [...]

Can't Spell Treason without Tea. By Rebecca Thorne. May 2024. 336p. Tor Bramble, paper, $19.99 (9781250333292); e-book (9781250333308). Can't Spell Treason without Tea might best be described by quoting the [...]

The Demon of Devil's Cavern. By Brennan LaFaro. Apr. 2024. 202p. DarkLit, paper, $16 (9781998851348); e-book (9781998851355). In this new story set in Buzzard's Edge, readers get a continuation of [...]

Withered. By A. G. A. Wilmot. Apr. 2024. 320p. ECW, paper, $18.95 (9781770417038); e-book (9781778523106). Shortly after the death of their father, 18-year-old Ellis, who's in recovery from an eating [...]

A Letter to the Luminous Deep. By Sylvie Cathrall. Apr. 2024. 400p. Orbit, paper, $18.99 (9780316565530); e-book (9780316565547). Set in a fantastical realm where letters serve as the primary mode [...]

Relics of Ruin. By Erin M. Evans. Apr. 2024. 448p. Orbit, paper, $19.99 (9780316441049); e-book (9780316441148). Evans continues the Books of the Usurper series (following Empires of Exile, 2022). Vigilant [...]