From great new books to favorite classic reads, from news to the latest in on-screen adaptations, Hey YA is here to elevate the exciting world of young adult lit.
Our Favorite Books of the Year So Far
53 mins; July 05, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Creepy Summertime Horror
10 mins; June 28, 2023
Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2023
47 mins; June 21, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Queer Graphic Novels
16 mins; June 14, 2023
Yay, Pride!
57 mins; June 07, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Austen Retellings That Aren't Pride and Prejudice
10 mins; May 31, 2023
YA Books to Celebrate Jewish Heritage Month and Beyond
58 mins; May 24, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: YA Books with the Best Summery Vibes
11 mins; May 17, 2023
YA Books by AAPI Authors
61 hours 39 mins; May 10, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books to Read for Mer-May
10 mins; May 03, 2023
YA Fantasy Worlds We’d Live In vs Ones We Wouldn’t
57 mins; April 26, 2023
Extra Credit: We Stan a Warrior Queen — Arab American YA
12 mins; April 19, 2023
I Want That On My Headstone: YA Novels In Verse
58 mins; April 12, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Novellas
12 mins; April 05, 2023
Book Club: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
58 mins; March 29, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Nonfiction
15 mins; March 22, 2023
Beware the Ides of March
59 mins; March 15, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: What Real Teens Are Reading
12 mins; March 08, 2023
Getting All Up in Our Little Women Feelings
61 hours 5 mins; March 01, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: People Be People-ing — New Releases by Black Authors to TBR
13 mins; February 22, 2023
Love is for Losers: Diverse Romance That We Love
57 mins; February 15, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: The ALA Youth Media Awards!
14 mins; February 08, 2023
Queer Friendships in YA
51 mins; February 01, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Dastardly Dystopias
9 mins; January 25, 2023
Fantasy Feels
60 hours 34 mins; January 18, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Books About Teen Parenthood
11 mins; January 11, 2023
Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
54 mins; January 04, 2023
Erica goes over a few cozy YA books she’s reading to while away the winter with.
12 mins; December 28, 2022
The Best YA We Read in 2022!
52 mins; December 21, 2022
Hey YA: Get These Short Graphic Novels on Your Radar
10 mins; December 14, 2022
It's a Backlist Bonanza!
51 mins; December 07, 2022
Can You Guess Which Shakespeare Plays These YA Novels were Inspired By?
9 mins; November 30, 2022
Reading in a Tropey Wonderland
50 mins; November 23, 2022
New Indigenous YA Books for Your TBR
10 mins; November 16, 2022
We Love a Good Revenge Story
58 mins; November 09, 2022
Extra Credit: Indigenous Graphic Novels
12 mins; November 02, 2022
Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: YA Horror Books for Spooky SZN
59 mins; October 26, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: October Reading at Its Finest
12 mins; October 19, 2022
We Hope You’re Hungry: Delectable Foodie YA Fiction
54 mins; October 12, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Fun-Sized Stories
9 mins; October 05, 2022
It’s Latine Month!
40 mins; September 28, 2022
Take Action This Banned Books Week
13 mins; September 21, 2022
It’s Pumpkin Spice O’Clock!
52 mins; September 14, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Am I the Villain?? And Other Important Questions in YA
14 mins; September 07, 2022
Audiobook Narrators Who Always Understand the Assignment
55 mins; August 31, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Big Sequel Energy
14 mins; August 24, 2022
TikTok Made Us Do It
48 mins; August 17, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books About Artists
13 mins; August 10, 2022
She’s Got a Whole Mortuary in Her Closet
51 mins; August 03, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Spoiler Alert, We Love THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
12 mins; July 27, 2022
Happy Disability Pride Month!
57 mins; July 20, 2022
Extra Credit: Road Trippin'
11 mins; July 13, 2022
From Catholic School to Demons, Here Are the Best Books of 2022 (So Far)
59 mins; July 06, 2022
Reproductive Freedom is a YA Issue
12 mins; June 29, 2022
Free Books For All!
52 mins; June 22, 2022
It’s Giving Zendaya As Joan of Arc: Retellings for Hey YA Extra Credit
17 mins; June 15, 2022
Let’s Talk About Asexuality in YA!
61 hours 35 mins; June 08, 2022
Happy Pride, YA Readers!
12 mins; June 01, 2022
Excellent YA Graphic Memoirs
48 mins; May 25, 2022
Extra Credit: Manga and Anime
21 mins; May 18, 2022
Book Club Discussion: Queen of the Tiles
56 mins; May 11, 2022
Prom Night Shenanigans: Hey YA Extra Credit
11 mins; May 04, 2022
From TikTok Aesthetic to BookTok Craze: All Things Dark Academia!
62 hours 59 mins; April 27, 2022
Extra Credit: When You Lose Your Wig and Other Conundrums in Historical YA Books
19 mins; April 20, 2022
The YA Reader in the Library With the Candle Stick: YA Mysteries
54 mins; April 13, 2022
Add Some Poetry to Your TBR: Hey YA Extra Credit
10 mins; April 06, 2022
Judging Books By Their Covers
61 hours 44 mins; March 30, 2022
Extra Credit: YA Books Like Spirited Away
13 mins; March 23, 2022
I Know What You Did Last Adaptation: YA Adaptations to Look Forward to
56 mins; March 16, 2022
Extra Credit: YA Duologies for Your TBR
16 mins; March 09, 2022
Get Angry, Get Empowered: Talking Censorship and YA
55 mins; March 02, 2022
The First Black Queer YA novel
12 mins; February 23, 2022
She Might Have Pulled Off Minor Identity Theft
58 mins; February 16, 2022
YA Books Inspired by THE WILD SWANS
18 mins; February 09, 2022
You Get a Printz, and You Get a Printz!
53 mins; February 02, 2022
No Justice, No Peace: YA Books with Activism
14 mins; January 26, 2022
From Hardly Reading to Reading Harder
54 mins; January 19, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: I Did Blind Date With a YA Book for Science (AKA This Podcast)
18 mins; January 12, 2022
I Don’t Know About You, But We’re Feeling 2022: Most Anticipated 2022 YA Releases
42 mins; January 05, 2022
Our Favorite YA Books of 2021
54 mins; December 22, 2021
Hey YA Extra Credit: Magical, Musical YA Novels in Verse
13 mins; December 15, 2021
Emotional Turbulence Incoming: YA Books About Found Family
54 mins; December 08, 2021
107.5 Hey YA Extra Credit: Stunning Graphic Novels to TBR
13 mins; December 01, 2021
Not To Be Shady Or Anything
57 mins; November 24, 2021
106.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: See You, Space Cowboy
12 mins; November 17, 2021
I Don’t Have Geometry In My Romance
56 mins; November 10, 2021
105.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Titles in Translation
14 mins; November 03, 2021
The Incendiary Opinion Episode
45 mins; October 27, 2021
104.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Chatting BSC on Netflix with Amma Marfo
30 mins; October 20, 2021
I'm a Cancer, How About You?
45 mins; October 13, 2021
103.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: The Career Novel
17 mins; October 06, 2021
The Haviest of the Haves
54 mins; September 29, 2021
102.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Romance
12 mins; September 22, 2021
Opening Grub Hub and Doing Some Damage
35 mins; September 15, 2021
101.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Dipping Your Toes Into YA
15 mins; September 08, 2021
A Hug in a Book
49 mins; September 01, 2021
100.5: Extra Credit: Contemporary History: 3 Recent YA Releases