Last year Acevedo’s passion for verse shined through in her National Book Award–winning debut, The Poet X. Her next book, With the Fire on High, will be available in May.

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Ahdieh took readers to Khorasan in her Arabian Nights–inspired series, The Wrath & the Dawn, and to feudal Japan in her Flame in the Mist duology. Her upcoming vampire series, The Beautiful, arrives this fall and will bring fans to 19th-century New Orleans.

Condie is no stranger to societies shaped by heartless regimes. Her latest dystopian standalone, The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe, follows a young ship captain who swears revenge on the raiders who stole everything she held dear.

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De la Cruz has written bestselling novels in a wide variety of genres for the YA audience. Her biggest hits include her paranormal vampire series, Blue Bloods, and her historical romance trilogy, Alex & Eliza.

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Since 2004, Johnson has published a number of bestselling YA series, including the swoony Little Blue Envelopes and the heart-pounding whodunit Truly, Devious. She’s also collaborated on YA anthologies with authors John Green and Cassandra Clare.

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In addition to penning the bestselling space opera trilogy The Illuminae Files with Jay Kristoff, Kaufman has partnered with Hunted author Meagan Spooner on the sci-fi series Starboundand Unearthed.

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This graphic designer–turned–novelist entered the YA scene with his award-winning contemporary debut, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, which tells the story of a young Persian American on his first trip to Iran.

Here are his summer reading picks: