AANHPI Month Contemporary YA Sampler

Check out these latest contemporary reads from Penguin Teen's Asian and Asian American authors!

This sampler includes the following titles:

The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram
Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater.

Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari
Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.

Not Your Average Jo by Grace K. Shim
From the author of The Noh Family, a second standalone YA novel that follows a Korean American teen as she navigates the treacherous world of nepo babies and cultural appropriation that is the Los Angeles music scene.

Rules for Rule Breaking by Talia Tucker
Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced into a shared college visit road trip where they discover that the reasons they’ve been rivals their entire lives might actually be signs they’re a perfect pair.

Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin
A sapphic summer romance filled with plenty of enemies-to-lovers sparks and swoony moments.