Debut YA Authors: April – June 2021

There are so many debut YA authors publishing their first book this year! If you missed the first quarter list, check out my post from yesterday. Just in the first half of the year, there is over 60 debut titles being published. Hence the reason for breaking up my list like this. Today we’re focusing on the spring list Debut YA Authors: April – June 2021.

You’d better get ready to add a lot more titles to your TBR! I was given Indivisible by Daniel Aleman from the publisher to review, so be looking for that on my blog in the coming months. Somewhere Between Bitter & Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp looks really good and Sunny G and a Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon looks right up my alley too.

April

• The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith (Release date: April 6)
• Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau (Release date: April 6)
• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price (Release date: April 6)
• Somewhere Between Bitter & Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp (Release date: April 6)
• What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson (Release date: April 6)
• Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve (Release date: April 13)
• Moving On by Nicole Bross (Release date: April 19)
• These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy (Release date: April 20)

May

• Indivisible by Daniel Aleman (Release date: May 4)
• Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan (Release date: May 4)
• Sunny G and a Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon (Release date: May 4)
• Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter (Release date: May 4)
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (Release date: May 4)
• Baby & Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma (Release date: May 11)
• Every Body Shines edited by Cassandra Newbould (Release date: May 11)
• Not Our Summer by Casie Bazay (Release date: May 11)
• Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass (Release date: May 11)
• It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland (Release date: May 18)
• Made in Korea by Sarah Suk (Release date: May 18)
• Kiss and Repeat by Heather Truett (Release date: May 25)
• Words Composed of Sea and Sky by Erica George (Release date: May 25)
• Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi (Release date: May 18)

June

• Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June (Release date: June 1)
• The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin (Release date: June 1)
• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (Release date: June 1)
• The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez (Release date: June 1)
• Daughter of Sparta by Claire M. Andrews (Release date: June 8)
• Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Release date: June 8)
• Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson (Release date: June 8)
• Queen of All by Anya Leigh Josephs (Release date: June 8)
• The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt (Release date: June 8)
• Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury (Release date: June 15)
• Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall (Release date: June 22)
• Sisters of the Snake by Sarena and Sasha Nanua (Release date: June 15)
• The Summer of Lost Letters by Hannah Reynolds (Release date: June 15)

If you get a chance to purchase, borrow from the library, and read some of these author’s debut works – send them some love on social media!

Make sure to come back tomorrow for YA Debut Authors publishing books from July – December, you don’t want to miss some more amazing titles! And if you want to check out debut authors that published titles in 2020, check out last year’s list as well!

Check out the 21ders website for debut middle grade and YA authors to learn more about them and their books being released this year! If you are a debut YA author and you’d like to be added to the list – leave a comment with your name, book title, and expected release date!