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Love YA books? Check out the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2025

The YA Book Prize celebrates the best fiction for young adults by authors from the UK and Ireland. The prize is run by The Bookseller magazine in partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival.

We’re excited to share the 10 brilliant titles shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025:

πŸ“— Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Γ€bΓ­kΓ©-ÍyΓ­mΓ­dΓ© and Adiba Jaigirdar (published by Usborne)
πŸ“— Songlight by Moira Buffini (published by Faber)
πŸ“— Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan (published by Bloomsbury YA)
πŸ“— The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle (published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
πŸ“— Lover Birds by Leon Egan (published by HarperFire)
πŸ“— The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald (published by Penguin)
πŸ“— The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson (published by Electric Monkey)
πŸ“— If My Words Had Wings by Danielle Jawando (published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
πŸ“— Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald (published by Faber)
πŸ“— Apocalypse Cow by O R Sorrel (published by Guppy Books)

You can find out more about all of this year’s shortlisted books and authors, and read the first chapter of each book for free, on the YA Book Prize website.

The winner will be announced on 21 August 2025.

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