- The memory box, a book about grief, by Joanna Rowland ; illustrations by Thea Baker
- House of salt and sorrows, Erin A. Craig
- Into the forest, tales of the Baba Yaga, edited by Lindy Ryan
- The wolf's curse, Jessica Vitalis
- The Remedy, Suzanne Young
- The second death of Edie and Violet Bond, Amanda Glaze
- Ghost boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Pisʹmovnik, [roman], Mikhail Shishkin
- All that it ever meant, Blessing Musariri
- Summer Bird Blue, Akemi Dawn Bowman
- All of us villains, Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
- Our violent ends, Chloe Gong
- Addy's cup of sugar, a Stillwater story by Jon J Muth
- The treasure box, written by Dave Keane ; illustrated by Rahele Jomepour Bell
- The weekend, Charlotte Wood
- The summer of the gypsy moths, Sara Pennypacker
- When you read this, a novel, Mary Adkins
- The last wife, Karen Hamilton
- A dowry of blood, S. T. Gibson
- The next person you meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
- Book of the dead, Michael Northrop
- Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs, written and illustrated by Tomie de Paola
- Finn's feather, Rachel Noble ; Illustrations by Zoey Abbott
- Family lore, a novel, Elizabeth Acevedo
- In his own image, Jérôme Ferrari ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson
- Family lore, a novel, Elizabeth Acevedo
- Good girls die first, Kathryn Foxfield
- The Whittiers, Danielle Steel
- The bones of the story, a novel, Carol Goodman
- The sight, a novel, Melanie Golding
- Northranger, Rey Terciero ; Bre Indigo
- Skin of the sea, Natasha Bowen
- Walk two moons, by Sharon Creech
- They both die at the end, Adam Silvera
- Someone else's bucket list, Amy T. Matthews
- Lullabies for suffering, tales of addiction horror, edited by Mark Matthews
- New waves, a novel, Kevin Nguyen
- Scythe, Neal Shusterman
- The road to Rose Bend, Naima Simone
- As I lay dying, William Faulkner
- The beauty that remains, Ashley Woodfolk
- Annie and the Old One, illustrated by Peter Parnall
- Memoirs of a tortoise, by Devin Scillian ; illustrated by Tim Bowers
- Leif and the fall, by Allison Sweet Grant and Adam Grant ; illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard
- Death & Sparkles and the sacred golden cupcake, Rob Justus
- Elysium fire, Alastair Reynolds
- Noggin, John Corey Whaley
- The dare, Hannah Jayne
- Flight, a novel, Lynn Steger Strong
- Before we were innocent, Ella Berman