Best Poetry & Novels in Verse books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Total books found: 79
Page 1 of 8
-
Anger Is Only a Shadow
by Elizabeth Acevedo
9/15/2026, 336 pages.
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author and renowned poet Elizabeth Acevedo comes a white-knuckle journey to self-understanding and doing the right ...
-
Evamar
by Margarita Engle
7/28/2026, 272 pages.
From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes an enthralling and heartrending novel in verse about first love, hidden cultures, and ancestral connections that follows a teen's ...
-
Bad Queer
by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
6/2/2026, 432 pages.
A luminous and romantic debut novel in verse about navigating first love as a non–binary teenager.
-
An Expanse of Blue
by Kauakanilehua Mahoe Adams
5/19/2026, 464 pages.
Fans of The Poet X will fall for this powerful, romantic debut novel-in-verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of ...
-
The Leaving Room
by Amber McBride
10/14/2025, 224 pages.
For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist ...
-
The Story of My Anger
by Jasminne Mendez
9/16/2025, 336 pages.
The Pura Belpré Honor Award winning author of Aniana del Mar Jumps In makes her YA debut with a powerful novel-in-verse about a Texas teen who is battling racism in her ...
-
Island Creatures
by Margarita Engle
7/8/2025, 272 pages.
From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes an inspiring and luminous love story told in verse about childhood friends, once lost and now reconnected, and their fight to ...
-
Solo
by Gráinne O'Brien
5/27/2025, 192 pages.
A YA verse novel about first love and friendship, lost and found.
-
I Can't Even Think Straight
by Dean Atta
5/6/2025, 304 pages.
In this emotional novel in verse by the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo, a queer biracial teen confronts issues of race, privilege, class, and sexuality ...
-
I Am the Swarm
by Hayley Chewins
3/25/2025, 336 pages.
A propulsive YA novel in verse that blends the contemporary magic of Jandy Nelson with the simmering feminist rage of Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.
The reviewer of each book decides which categories it belongs in - but we're only human, mistakes happen. If you see a book that you think is in the wrong place, tell us!
