Best Short Stories books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
Short Stories
Total books found: 40
Page 1 of 4
-
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
by Ruben Reyes
8/6/2024, 240 pages.
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
-
The Black Girl Survives in This One
by Desiree S. Evans
4/2/2024, 368 pages.
A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end.
-
All These Sunken Souls
by Circe Moskowitz
10/17/2023, 256 pages.
From haunted, hungry Victorian mansions, temporal monster–infested asylums, and ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners and cursed patriarchs in ...
-
The Collectors
by A.S. King
9/19/2023, 272 pages.
From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people...
-
If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery
9/5/2023, 272 pages.
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.
-
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
by Sidik Fofana
8/1/2023, 224 pages.
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend ...
-
Those Who Saw the Sun
by Jaha Nailah Avery
7/11/2023, 320 pages.
The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong.
-
My Monticello
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
10/11/2022, 224 pages.
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret ...
-
Tasting Light
by A. R. Capetta
10/11/2022, 320 pages.
In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities.
-
Man Made Monsters
by Andrea Rogers
10/4/2022, 320 pages.
Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade.
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!