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From great new books to favorite classic reads, from news to the latest in on-screen adaptations, Hey YA is here to elevate the exciting world of young adult lit.

Episode Date
Hey YA Extra Credit: All Things YA Short Stories
May 01, 2024
YA Poetry and Novels-in-Verse
Apr 24, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Books Out This Week
Apr 17, 2024
Book Club: Discussion of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Apr 10, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Books to Add to Your TBR
Apr 03, 2024
More Amenable to His Wooing: 25 Years of 10 Things I Hate About You
Mar 27, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: 25-Year YA Anniversaries
Mar 20, 2024
Our Favorite Queer YA Books
Mar 13, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: The Magic of Teen Writers
Mar 06, 2024
Hotties, Hauntings, and Heists: Black YA Books to Get Into
Feb 28, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: Queer YA Classics Retellings
Feb 21, 2024
When the Milkshake isn’t Milkshaking Like It Used To: Romantic YA across Genres
Feb 14, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: Standing on Business With New Historical Fiction
Feb 07, 2024
I Do What I Want — YA Anthologies
Jan 31, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: Madcap Mysteries
Jan 24, 2024
Nonfiction YA Books to Usher in Your New Era
Jan 17, 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: Here Be Dragons
Jan 10, 2024
Justice for Bertha!: Anticipated Books for 2024 and Book Trend Predictions
Jan 03, 2024
Rerun: Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
Dec 27, 2023
Our Favorite Books of 2023
Dec 20, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Grumpy/Sunshine Pairings
Dec 13, 2023
YA Cozy Mysteries
Dec 06, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Holiday Reads for December
Nov 29, 2023
All Pretty and Extra: The Best Books to Gift This Holiday Season
Nov 22, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Indigenous Books for Native American Heritage Month and Beyond
Nov 15, 2023
The Ultimate Winter Survival Kit
Nov 08, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: The Magical Girl Genre
Nov 01, 2023
YA Romantasy
Oct 25, 2023
Hey YA: New Elizabethan YA
Oct 18, 2023
Book Gremlins and Spooky Graphic Novels
Oct 11, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: In Our Witchy Bag
Oct 04, 2023
Great YA Reads to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month!
Sep 27, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: A Note About Soft Censorship
Sep 20, 2023
Fix Your Broken Heart, Blah Blah Blah — Indie YA Publishers
Sep 13, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Start Off Back-to-School Season With These Dark Academia Novels
Sep 06, 2023
The Best Book Recommendations: AI vs. Humans
Aug 30, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: September YA Adaptions for Your Watch List
Aug 23, 2023
Book Club: A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow
Aug 16, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: A Witchy Fast and Furious and Other YA Fantasies to TBR
Aug 09, 2023
Kitten Camaraderie and a Backlist Bonanza
Aug 02, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Novel Adaptations
Jul 26, 2023
Debut Novels from Some of Our Fave YA Authors
Jul 19, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Tropic Like It's Hot — YA Books With Tropical Settings
Jul 12, 2023
Our Favorite Books of the Year So Far
Jul 05, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Creepy Summertime Horror
Jun 28, 2023
Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2023
Jun 21, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Queer Graphic Novels
Jun 14, 2023
Yay, Pride!
Jun 07, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Austen Retellings That Aren't Pride and Prejudice
May 31, 2023
YA Books to Celebrate Jewish Heritage Month and Beyond
May 24, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: YA Books with the Best Summery Vibes
May 17, 2023
YA Books by AAPI Authors
May 10, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books to Read for Mer-May
May 03, 2023
YA Fantasy Worlds We’d Live In vs Ones We Wouldn’t
Apr 26, 2023
Extra Credit: We Stan a Warrior Queen — Arab American YA
Apr 19, 2023
I Want That On My Headstone: YA Novels In Verse
Apr 12, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Novellas
Apr 05, 2023
Book Club: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Mar 29, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Nonfiction
Mar 22, 2023
Beware the Ides of March
Mar 15, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: What Real Teens Are Reading
Mar 08, 2023
Getting All Up in Our Little Women Feelings
Mar 01, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: People Be People-ing — New Releases by Black Authors to TBR
Feb 22, 2023
Love is for Losers: Diverse Romance That We Love
Feb 15, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: The ALA Youth Media Awards!
Feb 08, 2023
Queer Friendships in YA
Feb 01, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Dastardly Dystopias
Jan 25, 2023
Fantasy Feels
Jan 18, 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Books About Teen Parenthood
Jan 11, 2023
Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
Jan 04, 2023
Extra Credit: Cozy YA Books to Snuggle Up With
Dec 28, 2022
The Best YA We Read in 2022!
Dec 21, 2022
Hey YA: Get These Short Graphic Novels on Your Radar
Dec 14, 2022
It's a Backlist Bonanza!
Dec 07, 2022
Can You Guess Which Shakespeare Plays These YA Novels were Inspired By?
Nov 30, 2022
Reading in a Tropey Wonderland
Nov 23, 2022
New Indigenous YA Books for Your TBR
Nov 16, 2022
We Love a Good Revenge Story
Nov 09, 2022
Extra Credit: Indigenous Graphic Novels
Nov 02, 2022
Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: YA Horror Books for Spooky SZN
Oct 26, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: October Reading at Its Finest
Oct 19, 2022
We Hope You’re Hungry: Delectable Foodie YA Fiction
Oct 12, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Fun-Sized Stories
Oct 05, 2022
It’s Latine Month!
Sep 28, 2022
Take Action This Banned Books Week
Sep 21, 2022
It’s Pumpkin Spice O’Clock!
Sep 14, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Am I the Villain?? And Other Important Questions in YA
Sep 07, 2022
Audiobook Narrators Who Always Understand the Assignment
Aug 31, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Big Sequel Energy
Aug 24, 2022
TikTok Made Us Do It
Aug 17, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books About Artists
Aug 10, 2022
She’s Got a Whole Mortuary in Her Closet
Aug 03, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: Spoiler Alert, We Love THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
Jul 27, 2022
Happy Disability Pride Month!
Jul 20, 2022
Extra Credit: Road Trippin'
Jul 13, 2022
From Catholic School to Demons, Here Are the Best Books of 2022 (So Far)
Jul 06, 2022
Reproductive Freedom is a YA Issue
Jun 29, 2022
Free Books For All!
Jun 22, 2022
It’s Giving Zendaya As Joan of Arc: Retellings for Hey YA Extra Credit
Jun 15, 2022
Let’s Talk About Asexuality in YA!
Jun 08, 2022
Happy Pride, YA Readers!
Jun 01, 2022
Excellent YA Graphic Memoirs
May 25, 2022
Extra Credit: Manga and Anime
May 18, 2022
Book Club Discussion: Queen of the Tiles
May 11, 2022
Prom Night Shenanigans: Hey YA Extra Credit
May 04, 2022
From TikTok Aesthetic to BookTok Craze: All Things Dark Academia!
Apr 27, 2022
Extra Credit: When You Lose Your Wig and Other Conundrums in Historical YA Books
Apr 20, 2022
The YA Reader in the Library With the Candle Stick: YA Mysteries
Apr 13, 2022
Add Some Poetry to Your TBR: Hey YA Extra Credit
Apr 06, 2022
Judging Books By Their Covers
Mar 30, 2022
Extra Credit: YA Books Like Spirited Away
Mar 23, 2022
I Know What You Did Last Adaptation: YA Adaptations to Look Forward to
Mar 16, 2022
Extra Credit: YA Duologies for Your TBR
Mar 09, 2022
Get Angry, Get Empowered: Talking Censorship and YA
Mar 02, 2022
The First Black Queer YA novel
Feb 23, 2022
She Might Have Pulled Off Minor Identity Theft
Feb 16, 2022
YA Books Inspired by THE WILD SWANS
Feb 09, 2022
You Get a Printz, and You Get a Printz!
Feb 02, 2022
No Justice, No Peace: YA Books with Activism
Jan 26, 2022
From Hardly Reading to Reading Harder
Jan 19, 2022
Hey YA Extra Credit: I Did Blind Date With a YA Book for Science (AKA This Podcast)
Jan 12, 2022
I Don’t Know About You, But We’re Feeling 2022: Most Anticipated 2022 YA Releases
Jan 05, 2022
Our Favorite YA Books of 2021
Dec 22, 2021
Hey YA Extra Credit: Magical, Musical YA Novels in Verse
Dec 15, 2021
Emotional Turbulence Incoming: YA Books About Found Family
Dec 08, 2021
107.5 Hey YA Extra Credit: Stunning Graphic Novels to TBR
Dec 01, 2021
Not To Be Shady Or Anything
Nov 24, 2021
106.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: See You, Space Cowboy
Nov 17, 2021
I Don’t Have Geometry In My Romance
Nov 10, 2021
105.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Titles in Translation
Nov 03, 2021
The Incendiary Opinion Episode
Oct 27, 2021
104.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Chatting BSC on Netflix with Amma Marfo
Oct 20, 2021
I'm a Cancer, How About You?
Oct 13, 2021
103.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: The Career Novel
Oct 06, 2021
The Haviest of the Haves
Sep 29, 2021
102.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Romance
Sep 22, 2021
Opening Grub Hub and Doing Some Damage
Sep 15, 2021
101.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Dipping Your Toes Into YA
Sep 08, 2021
A Hug in a Book
Sep 01, 2021
100.5: Extra Credit: Contemporary History: 3 Recent YA Releases
Aug 25, 2021
Foodie Tinder
Aug 18, 2021
99.5: Extra Credit: The First Real YA Book
Aug 11, 2021
I See a Cat, I Like It
Aug 04, 2021
98.5: Extra Credit: Unintentionally Dark and Murder-y
Jul 28, 2021
Heroines Don’t Always Have to Be Strong: YA Romance Chat with Jacqueline Firkins
Jul 21, 2021
97.5: Extra Credit: Do These Early YA Reads Hold Up?
Jul 14, 2021
Our Favorite Books of 2021, So Far
Jul 07, 2021
96.5: Extra Credit: We're Seeing Humans At Their Most Powerful
Jun 30, 2021
Malinda Lo and Jason Reynolds Share What Books Shaped Them
Jun 23, 2021
95.5: Extra Credit: You Don't Understand--"Boulder Gay" is Something I Made Up
Jun 17, 2021
Small Towns in the Pacific Northwest and Texas Are Not Similar, and Also, Idris Elba
Jun 09, 2021
94.5: Extra Credit: Community is Everything
Jun 02, 2021
We Murdered No One, and There Were No Bacchanals
May 26, 2021
93.5: Extra Credit: Were You An Extracurriculars Teen or After School Job Teen?
May 19, 2021
It Doesn't Add Up, and It's Not Because I'm Bad at Math
May 12, 2021
92.5: Extra Credit: The Things I'd Do For a New Melina Marchetta Book
May 05, 2021
Everything Is Feudal Europe
Apr 28, 2021
91.5: Extra Credit: Coming Soon to a Podcast and VOD Near You
Apr 21, 2021
I Found Myself in Walmart
Apr 14, 2021
90.5: Extra Credit: It's Too On the Nose
Apr 07, 2021
Abraham Lincoln Was Gay!
Mar 31, 2021
89.5: Extra Credit: Bookishly Honoring the Victims of the Atlanta Shootings
Mar 24, 2021
What Do We Do When We're Done With Nancy Drew?
Mar 17, 2021
88.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: In Honor of My Job Interviews...
Mar 10, 2021
Black Futures and More
Mar 03, 2021
87.5: Extra Credit: YA Horror and the Summer Scares
Feb 24, 2021
The Romance Elephant
Feb 17, 2021
86.5: Extra Credit: YA for Tweens and Younger Teens
Feb 10, 2021
Nightmare in a Crowd
Feb 03, 2021
85.5: Extra Credit: When I Hear "Steam Engine," I Think Of Jack and Kate Running Through the Boiler Room
Jan 27, 2021
Coming Soon: Smizecream
Jan 20, 2021
84.5: Extra Credit: Food and Wine, Chips and Cheese, Picture Books and YA
Jan 13, 2021
You Wear a Belt for That?
Jan 06, 2021
83.5: Extra Credit: Fat Girls in YA
Dec 16, 2020
The R Word and the X Word and YA in Translation
Dec 09, 2020
82.5: Extra Credit: Backlist Gems from YA Award Winners
Dec 02, 2020
81.5: Extra Credit: Fascism! That's Cheery!
Nov 18, 2020
Oops/You're Welcome
Nov 11, 2020
80.5: Extra Credit: Becoming a Teacher and YA Reader with Tim Milner
Nov 04, 2020
Welcome To Hey YA
Oct 29, 2020
What Even Is An Oak Tree?
Oct 28, 2020
79.5: Extra Credit: Ghost Stories
Oct 21, 2020
Get In Loser. We're Going Podcasting.
Oct 14, 2020
78.5: Extra Credit: Book Clubbing SLOPPY FIRSTS with Kristina Forest
Oct 07, 2020
I Put A Spell On You
Sep 30, 2020
77.5: Extra Credit: Extolling The Virtues of Darius The Great Is Not OK
Sep 23, 2020
The Live Experience
Sep 16, 2020
Extra Credit: Retellings
Sep 09, 2020
Your Heart Still Has Feeling
Sep 02, 2020
Extra Credit: Cemetery Boys and Bad Choices with Aiden Thomas
Aug 26, 2020
The Real Deal On IP
Aug 19, 2020
Extra Credit: Latinx YA Extravaganza
Aug 12, 2020
Teens Who Raise Their Voices
Aug 05, 2020
Extra Credit: The Get Booked Handsell
Jul 29, 2020
Time Is Meaningless
Jul 22, 2020
72.5: Extra Credit: Must-Read Fantasy Series
Jul 15, 2020
The Baby-Sitters Club Adaptation is Everything
Jul 08, 2020
71.5: Extra Credit: Katie Cotugno and the Rules for Being a Girl
Jul 01, 2020
It's a Cookie Conspiracy
Jun 24, 2020
70.5: Extra Credit: Queer YA With Leah Johnson
Jun 17, 2020
This Podcast Is Anti-Racist
Jun 10, 2020
69.5: Extra Credit: Messy, Compelling Queer Characters with Lev Rosen
Jun 03, 2020
Don't Make a "Niccceeee" Joke
May 27, 2020
Extra Credit: The Life and (Medieval) Times of Jamie Pacton
May 20, 2020
On YA "Boy Books" and Driving In The Midwest
May 13, 2020
67.5: Extra Credit: (Almost) Entirely Historical Fiction with Jordyn Taylor
May 06, 2020
Cinnamon Roll Characters
Apr 29, 2020
66.5: Extra Credit Humor Reads
Apr 22, 2020
I'm The One Pushing This Agenda
Apr 15, 2020
65.5: Extra Credit: THE MOTH DIARIES with Samantha Mabry
Apr 08, 2020
The Catnip Episode
Apr 01, 2020
64.5: Always Bring A Cat With Claribel Ortega
Mar 25, 2020
Delicious Novels and Dad Music
Mar 18, 2020
63.5: Extra Credit Backlist Picks with Shveta Thakrar!
Mar 11, 2020
Live: Podcasting While Eating Chocolate Cake
Mar 04, 2020
62.5: Backlist for Black History Month
Feb 26, 2020
Catching Feels for YA Dads
Feb 19, 2020
61.5: Loving On Jenny Han's SHUG
Feb 12, 2020
Burnt Toast
Feb 05, 2020
60.5: Extra Credit: I Hope You Get This Backlist with Farah Naz Rishi
Jan 29, 2020
One Chonky Beautiful Book
Jan 22, 2020
59.5: Extra Credit: The Walls Around Us And Phil Stamper
Jan 15, 2020
The Count of Monte Crisco
Jan 08, 2020
Wearing Real People Clothes
Dec 11, 2019
Coming At You In Claymation
Nov 27, 2019
Remember To Unclick Lumbersexual
Nov 13, 2019
Gentle Trolling
Oct 30, 2019
Being Petty Is An Important Reason To Read
Oct 16, 2019
Our Comics and YA Crossover Wishlists
Oct 02, 2019
Class Projects About Chlamydia
Sep 18, 2019
Welcome To College: Death Comes For Us All
Sep 04, 2019
Extra Credit: It's Ok If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
Aug 28, 2019
Complicated Trips To Other Planets
Aug 21, 2019
Exta Credit: MOM, THE WOLFMAN, AND ME by Norma Klein
Aug 14, 2019
Every 90s Teen Movie Ever
Aug 07, 2019
48.5 NO MORE SATURDAY NIGHTS by Norma Klein
Jul 31, 2019
I Don't Want To Go To Murder Island, Ok?
Jul 24, 2019
#47.5: BREAKING UP by Norma Klein
Jul 17, 2019
I Cried Waiting For My Pizza Today
Jul 10, 2019
#46.5: Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein
Jul 03, 2019
#46: Suzanne Collins OWNS The Mountain
Jun 26, 2019
#45.5: Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Jun 19, 2019
45: I'm Not Stephen King's Publicist
Jun 12, 2019
Extra Credit: Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein
Jun 05, 2019
#44: I'm Not The Teen Who Makes It To The Epilogue
May 29, 2019
#43: Precious Plant Nurturing Boys
May 15, 2019
#42: A Penchant For Beheading Shoplifters
May 01, 2019
#41: Everyone Dies At The Dance
Apr 17, 2019
#40: The Corn Uprising
Apr 03, 2019
#39: Gritty, The Gritty YA Novel
Mar 20, 2019
#38: Death Metal Songs You Can Slow Dance To
Mar 06, 2019
#36: The Backstreet Boys Have A New Album, Guys
Feb 06, 2019
#35: Mystery, Mystery, Murder, Murder
Jan 23, 2019
#34: Swoony Robots
Jan 09, 2019
#33: Dolly Parton, Patron Saint of YA
Dec 12, 2018
#32: Olds Like Us
Nov 28, 2018
#31: Pterodactly Boyfriend, Again
Nov 14, 2018
#29: Perfect For Fans of Magic Mike
Oct 17, 2018
#28: Can We Even Say That Word?
Oct 03, 2018
#27: Oh, and Zombies
Sep 19, 2018
#26: What Do You Get Your Podcast Partner On The First Anniversary?
Sep 05, 2018
#25: Are You Or Someone You Know Suffering From Romance?
Aug 22, 2018
Episode 23: Dark Playtime Stuff
Jul 25, 2018
#22: Hatchet Harder
Jul 11, 2018
#21: Teens and Tiny Houses
Jun 27, 2018
#20: Fathers You've Seen In 80s Movies
Jun 13, 2018
#19: You’re in Space! Look At Some Stars!
May 30, 2018
#18: A Low Grumbling Sound and Enough With Hatchet
May 16, 2018
Bonus: Malinda Lo Recommends
May 09, 2018
#17: The YA Reading Sandwich
May 02, 2018
#16: Would You Say You Wolfed It Down?
Apr 18, 2018
#15: Hot Pterodactyls Playing Baseball
Apr 04, 2018
#14: Does Time Have Meaning?
Mar 21, 2018
#13: Sliding Into the YA Category's DMs
Mar 07, 2018
Ep. #12: If Judy Blume's Characters Had Tumblr
Feb 21, 2018
Ep. #11: Like The Fast & The Furious: FAMILY!
Feb 07, 2018
Ep #10: YOWZA, it’s ADORBZ
Jan 24, 2018
Ep. #9: Sorry, But You're Old
Jan 10, 2018
Ep. #8: Say “Whoa” Like Keanu Reeves
Jan 03, 2018
Ep. #7: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Dec 13, 2017
Ep. #6: Speaking of Shipwrecks...
Nov 29, 2017
Ep #5: Sad Man Books
Nov 15, 2017
Ep. #4: Oh, The Youths!
Nov 01, 2017
Ep. #3: Are The Aliens Rich?
Oct 18, 2017
Ep. #2: Whatever Happened To Tookie De La Creme?
Oct 04, 2017
Episode #1: Jeans Are Self-Cleaning
Sep 20, 2017
Episode 0: I Like It When Books Do Weird Things
Sep 02, 2017