New YA Book Releases for June 11, 2025

Bibi Hossain’s father has a rule she hates, and it’s that she cannot date anyone until her older sister is married. That ruins Bibi’s plans for her first kiss this summer. It also gets her grounded when he finds out that a kiss is on her to-do list. Bibi is going to be stuck working at the family chicken restaurant all summer which will be awful and boring and everything she doesn’t want.

But then her older sister Halima drops the news that she’s going to be marrying an heir to a tea garden estate in Bangladesh. Bibi and the family are on their way now for the wedding, and Bibi hopes it’ll help soften her dad up to dating.

The family Halima is marrying into is awful. Every one of them. Especially Sohel, the younger brother of the to-be groom. There is something that Sohel and Bibi agree on, and it’s that their siblings should not be getting married. Sohel and Bibi know they need to break up the relationship, and despite their bickering, there might be actual real feelings developing between the two of them.

Enemies-to-lovers? Maybe. Or perhaps there’s something even weirder going on at this tea estate as the younger siblings work to break up their older siblings.

Amelia Applebaum wouldn’t say she’s in love with her favorite bisexual YouTuber Walter Holland. Even if she invited him to prom.

But okay, Amelia is infatuated with him and knows if the two of them could spend time together, they would hit it off so well.

She wants to convince her best friends for one last hoorah before graduation, and it might involve a road trip and it might involve Walter. It also involves her bestie Natalie.

Except as things start to roll for an unforgettable senior year, something becomes a little more certain. It might not be Walter who is Amelia’s one-and-always. It might be someone who has always been a little closer to Amelia all along.

Brenda’s determined to change the world through her scientific mind, but when her internet goes out right before a major scholarship deadline, she makes her way to Kat’s family’s cafe to get things done. Immediately, she’s smitten with Kat, who is everything cool and confident that she herself is not. Kat’s caught feelings, too–and Kat’s especially glad Brenda doesn’t care that Kat’s future involves becoming The Chosen One.

There’s one big–like, really big–problem. Kat and Brenda are from different universes. So when their worlds do collide, things begin to spiral in ways neither of them could imagine.

This queer cozy fantasy is releasing in both hardcover and paperback simultaneously so you can pick your preferred format.

This sounds like a fascinating braiding of several genres, including historical, western, and thriller.

It’s 1886 and Belle, who is 19, is finally turning herself over to Dodge City authorities. She’s committed murder. Maybe more than one.

Belle isn’t expecting her abusive husband Reginald to be there waiting when she arrives at jail. Reginald was the first man Belle ever wanted to kill, and that urge hasn’t ended. Indeed, even if she is in jail, she’ll do everything she can to avoid being taken back by him.

Even though Belle confesses to all of her crimes, no one believes her. Especially not in the 1880s. Especially not when her husband has a different story to tell.

Angélique is 18, and her lifelong dream has been to make gowns for the most elite in society. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone that way for her. She’s dyeing silk in a sweatshop, and her lot only gets harder when she’s left orphaned and in charge of her younger sister. Things were already financially tight. This makes that reality even harder.

She’s not going to give up though. Angélique takes a job designing for one of Paris’s top modistes. Her peers make fun of her for being poor, and though this job gets her one step closer to her dream, it isn’t covering the bills, either.

So when a contest is announced for a coveted protégée role, Angélique knows she’ll win. She’ll do whatever she possibly can to make it happen. And she’s doing it. But as she gets closer and closer to her dream, that ambition of hers is being weaponized and tearing open the wounds related to the destruction of her own family.

Angélique finds herself in a tough position: fight like hell for her dream or step back and save herself and her sister in a safer way?

If you love twists on Jane Austen, you’ll want to pop this Japanese Canadian take on Emma on your TBR.

Emiko is great at matchmaking. She even set up her aunt in what became a perfect love connection. Emiko’s best friend Kenzo wishes that she’d spend less time meddling in love and more time thinking about her own future. But Emiko can’t help it–she’s great at knowing who belongs with who.

Despite her skills, Emiko isn’t having luck in her own love life. While she’s keeping herself busy as a foodie, volunteering, being a social butterfly, those things are suddenly all out the window when Emiko herself starts to fall for someone she least expects to catch feelings for. Now she’s in the position to figure out what it means to fall in love and where and how her own love life is entangled with the work of setting other people up.

“Some of the most spectacular writing I’ve ever encountered in my life… Vagabonds! brought me to tears because it gave me a world in which my country could be home again.”