Best Teen & YA Books of 2023

Barnes & Noble’s Best Teens & YA Books of 2023

It’s time for the Barnes & Noble round-up of the Best Teens & YA books of the year! We’ve compiled the best of the best new fiction books of 2023 for teenagers and young adults. From epic fantasies like Murtagh to rom-coms such as Check & Mate, and the next installments of popular YA book series Heartstopper and Once Upon a Broken Heart, find your next new read here at Barnes and Noble.

The latest installment for fans of the world of Eragon, Murtagh is an epic new fantasy of larger-than-life proportions set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle.

Find out what happens to Evangeline Fox in A Curse for True Love, the deadly conclusion to the popular New York Times #1 bestselling trilogy, Once Upon a Broken Heart.

For fans of gothic fantasy, mystery and romance, A Study in Drowning, is the perfect addition to your YA bookshelf.

Don’t miss the latest volume of Heartstopper, an LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about falling in love and about cherishing the small moments that makeup something larger and more important.

Check & Mate is a YA debut novel about rival chess players who are playing a match for the heart, winner takes all.

For more popular and bestselling fiction books for young adults and teenagers, be sure to browse our full collection of Teen & YA books!

The 10 Best Teens & YA Books of 2023:

The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart) by Stephanie Garber
Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Beholder by Ryan La Sala
Heartstopper Volume 5 (Heartstopper Series) by Alice Oseman
Betting on You by Lynn Painter
Murtagh (The World of Eragon) by Christopher Paolini
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

(Listed in alphabetical order by author)