Podcasts by The B&N YA Podcast
Explore the stories behind the young adult books you love with the B&N YA Podcast. Join host Melissa Albert, editor of the B&N Teen Blog and bestselling author of The Hazel Wood, as she sits down with fellow YA authors to talk about books, life, their teen years, their pop cultural obsessions, and how they came up with the stories that keep us up at night. Subscribe to listen in on fascinating new conversations every other week.
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An Epic End to 2018 and a Look Ahead from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, B&N Teen Blog editor Melissa Albert sat down with blog contributors and authors Dahlia Adler and Sona Charaipotra to discuss the YA books we loved in 2018, and the incredible YA
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A Special Message from the B&N YA Podcast from 2020-02-10T22:40:50
Thank you for subscribing to the B&N YA Podcast!
This is a special message to let you know, soon we'll be merging our YA podcast with our main B&N Podcast. We've got so many YA writers jo...
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Abigail Hing Wen from 2020-01-10T18:35:43
Our guest today is the novelist Abigail Hing Wen, who joins us to talk about her new YA novel Listen
Ryan LaSala from 2019-12-12T22:40:13
On today's episode we're joined by Ryan LaSala, for a conversation about his bewitching debut novel Listen
Tomi Adeyemi with Melissa Albert from 2019-12-05T19:06:58
Hi YA Podcast listeners. If you're a regular listener you know that one of our most exciting episodes ever was Melissa Albert's interview last December with the groundbreaking fantasy author Tom...
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Brandon Sanderson from 2019-11-27T15:05:47
On today's episode science fiction and fantasy titan Brandon Sanderson joins us to talk about his brand new YA novel Listen
Akwaeke Emezi from 2019-11-18T14:00
Our guest for today's episode is Akwaeke Emezi, the author of the new YA novel Pet, whi...
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Neal Shusterman from 2019-11-14T14:00
What would happen if the future were made perfect? That was the question National Book Award-winning author Neal Shusterman posed in 2016's YA blockbuster Listen
Maggie Stiefvater from 2019-11-07T14:00
Maggie Stiefvater is the keeper of a host of odd obsessions, threading her bestselling fantasy novels with vicious water horses, sleeping Welsh royalty, ley lines, and liminal spaces. She’s the ...
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Holly Black from 2019-10-31T13:00
A Halloween treat for readers -- we return to our wide ranging interview with the queen of shadowy fantasy, Holly Black! Black's books straddle the real world and the realm of the fey, or reim...
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Rick Riordan from 2019-10-24T13:00
On today's episode, we're joined by the writer Rick Riordan, known by thousands of readers around the globe for his blockbuster series including Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Kane Chronic...
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Nic Stone from 2019-10-17T13:00
Nic Stone entered the YA canon with her blistering debut, Dear Martin, in which a con...
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Ruta Sepetys from 2019-10-11T17:16:44
Today special guest is the internationally bestselling author Ruta Sepetys. In novels like Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea, Sepetys has given readers glimpses into t...
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Laura Ruby from 2019-10-10T15:57:13
Laura Ruby is the author of books including the fairy-tale inflected award-winner Bone Gap, the York trilogy, a steampunk series for younger readers, and her latest Listen
Rainbow Rowell — Wayward Son from 2019-10-03T13:00
On today's episode we've got a conversation we've been waiting for since... well, since we heard that author Rainbow Rowell was going to give readers a sequel to her captivating contemporary fan...
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Mariko Tamaki from 2019-09-26T15:42:01
Today on the YA Podcast, our special guest is the celebrated graphic novel writer Mariko Tamaki, in to talk about her razor-sharp and groundbreaking new take on a DC comics character who has cro...
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David Yoon from 2019-09-19T13:00
David Yoon is the debut author of Listen
Shelby Mahurin from 2019-09-12T15:17:15
On today's episode we spoke with novelist Shelby Mahurin about her darkly enchanting debut Listen
Katharine McGee from 2019-09-05T13:30:04
Our guest on today's episode of the B&N YA Podcast is the writer Katharine McGee talking about her new novel Listen
Leigh Bardugo — Revisited from 2019-08-29T13:00
We are resharing one of our favorite conversations that we originally posted earlier this year, in case you missed it!
Leigh Bardugo is the keeper of the Grishaverse, a sprawling fantasy ...
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Gretchen McNeil from 2019-08-22T13:00
Gretchen McNeil is the author of YA books including the Agatha Christie-inspired Ten; ...
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Derek Millman from 2019-08-15T13:00
Today our special guest is Derek Millman, author of the new novel Swipe Right ...
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Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal from 2019-08-08T13:00
Erin A. Craig from 2019-08-01T13:28:22
If we had to name two things we're maybe most obsessed with on the B&N YA Podcast, they would be amazing debuts, and fascinating twists on classic tales. So we're thrilled today to have as our g...
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Serena Valentino from 2019-07-25T13:00
For six books and counting, author Serena Valentino has enraptured readers with her stunning upendings of the tales of favorite heroes and villains in her Disney Villains series, reimagining bel...
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Rory Power from 2019-07-11T13:00
Astrid Scholte from 2019-07-04T13:00
In Astrid Scholte's inventive and beguiling mashup of murder mystery and fantasy, Fo...
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Claire Legrand from 2019-06-28T13:00
Claire LeGrand is the author of YA and middle grade books including The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, feminist horror novel Sawkill Gir... Listen
Sarah Dessen from 2019-06-27T13:00
Sarah Dessen is a YA queen, the beloved author of over a dozen contemporary YA novels exploring themes of loss, first love, assault, family ties, and all the confusing, heartbreaking, thrilling ...
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Sandhya Menon from 2019-06-20T13:00
Since the release of her bestselling debut, When Dimple Met Rishi, San...
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Hafsah Faisal from 2019-06-13T13:00
Since 2010 author and designer Hafsah Faisal has been writing about books on her blog Icy Books, and now she's celebrating the launch of her own Arabian culture inspired fantasy debut. Listen
Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy from 2019-06-06T14:44:19
Days after they got engaged in front of a joyous bookstore audience, I sat down with Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy to talk about their inclusive fantasy/sci-fi series starter Listen
Jennifer Donnelly from 2019-05-30T13:00
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of historical fiction including Printz honoree A Nor...
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Christine Riccio from 2019-05-23T13:00
Every week, Christine Riccio tells hundreds of thousands of people what to read next on her booktube channel PolandBananasBooks—and now, she's promoting her own bestselling debut novel. Listen
Julie Buxbaum from 2019-05-16T20:51:29
Maureen Goo from 2019-05-09T20:31:25
Maurene Goo writes warm, funny romantic comedies with irresistible hooks and fabulous supporting casts, about type-A K-Drama obsessives, K-pop stars, LA prankster girls, and heart-lifting love s...
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Elizabeth Acevedo from 2019-05-02T13:00
Today on the B&N YA Podcast, Elizabeth Acevedo joins us to talk about her forthcoming novel Listen
Emily A. Duncan from 2019-04-18T13:00
Emily A. Duncan is a youth services librarian and YA author whose Russian-inspired fantasy debut, Listen
Danielle Paige from 2019-04-04T20:00
Danielle Paige has revisited the story of Dorothy Gale, gone dark retelling the Snow Queen, and now, with Listen
Samira Ahmed from 2019-03-28T20:50:22
Samira Ahmed’s debut, Listen
Dhonielle Clayton from 2019-03-14T13:00
On today's podcast, Dhonielle Clayton drops into the studio to talk about her new novel Listen
Sarah Enni from 2019-03-08T19:00
For the last four years, Sarah Enni has traveled the country interviewing YA authors about their histories, their craft, and their new releases, as the creator and host of the wonderful First Dr...
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Gita Trelease from 2019-02-27T20:00
In this episode we're featuring a crossover with our sibling podcast The B&N Podcast as we welcome debut novelist Gita Trelease, whose sparking new novel Listen
Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan from 2019-02-22T19:44:34
When Bett Devlin discovers that her Dad has a new long-distance boyfriend, that’s one thing. But when he wants to send Bett off to a strange summer camp with his new boyfriend's daughter Avery?...
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Laura Sebastian from 2019-02-15T19:22:18
Laura Sebastian’s Ash Princess is a book of elemental magic, fallen royals, a...
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Leigh Bardugo from 2019-02-08T14:00
Leigh Bardugo is the keeper of the Grishaverse, a sprawling fantasy landscape that includes the Listen
Angie Thomas — Podcast Extra from 2019-02-07T16:22:36
Today we have a special treat for you, a YA Podcast extra featuring bestselling author Angie Thomas talking with YA podcast host Melissa Albert about her brand-new book Listen
Ben Philippe from 2019-01-31T18:02:20
Does anyone in high school really know themselves? That’s one of the subjects explored — via laughter — by this week’s guest Ben Philippe, who dropped by our studio to talk about his wonderful ...
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Roshani Chokshi from 2019-01-24T21:31:44
Maureen Johnson from 2019-01-17T18:00
Whether she’s writing London-set ghost stories, offbeat coming of age tales, or cold-case mysteries, Maureen Johnson’s YA books are full of eccentric supporting characters, eerie and oddball twi...
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Malala Yousafzai from 2019-01-10T14:00
Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, an advocate for comprehensive women's education around the world, and the author of the brilliant memoir Listen
Christopher Paolini from 2018-12-31T15:36:51
Christopher Paolini has been writing about the wide world of Listen
Julie Murphy from 2018-12-19T18:59:08
Julie Murphy is the author of layered contemporary tales celebrating body positivity, fierce female characters, and complicated friendships. Her bestselling second book, Listen
Chris Colfer from 2018-12-06T14:00
Chris Colfer has been a YA writer, middle grade writer, screenwriter, actor in movies including Listen
Cassandra Clare on Queen of Air and Darkness from 2018-11-30T14:00
On December 4 Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices trilogy will end with Que...
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Tahereh Mafi from 2018-11-15T21:35:05
Tahereh Mafi’s latest book is a departure for the author of the bestselling dystopian Shatter Me series, and magical middle grade novels including Listen
Ransom Riggs from 2018-11-08T22:00
Since 2011 Ransom Riggs has told stories set in the strange and dangerous world of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, taking his peculiars across Europe and across time. In th...
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Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera from 2018-10-25T18:38:53
Becky Albertalli is known for hilarious, feelsy, sweet and sour high school stories stuffed with wildly relatable insights and characters that will become your best friends. Adam Silvera is know...
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Neal and Jarrod Shusterman from 2018-10-19T20:56:59
Neal Shusterman deals in dark fictional visions — but he never forgets to give readers a reason to hope. His Unwind dystology centered on a dystopia in which children can be retroactively aborte...
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Lauren Oliver from 2018-10-18T16:53:07
Lauren Oliver grew up in a house full of books, writes her novels even when she's at parties, and has so many ideas she started a company, Glass Town Entertainment, to help her turn more of them...
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Neil Patrick Harris from 2018-10-05T13:00
In show business, a "triple threat" is a performer who can sing, dance and act -- and that makes Neil Patrick Harris, who is all these things and the author of an inventive series of books for y...
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Angie Thomas from 2018-10-04T13:00
Angie Thomas's Black Lives Matter-inspired debut, The Hate U Give Listen
Nova Ren Suma from 2018-09-27T13:00
Nova Ren Suma writes haunting, female-fronted tales about sinister things, exploring the complexities of family, different kinds of ghost stories, and what it means to be a woman in the world. H...
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Courtney Summers from 2018-08-30T13:00
Courtney Summers’ latest book, Sadie, is a dark new thriller fusing episodes of a tr...
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Kara Thomas from 2018-08-16T16:10:14
Kara Thomas writes page-turning thrillers with true crime DNA, about complicated girls navigating hard histories, dangerous entanglements, and dark deeds. Her latest is Listen
Marisha Pessl from 2018-08-02T13:31:47
Marisha Pessl debuted in 2006 with Special Topics in Calamity Phy...
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Stephanie Garber from 2018-07-18T13:00
Stephanie Garber’s debut novel Caraval is a jewel box of a book, filled with unearthly delights. With its magical dresses, life-or-death riddles, and glittering carnival backdrop, it be...
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Nicola Yoon from 2018-07-05T13:00
Nicola Yoon writes love stories that will break your heart, filled with all the hope, excitement, and uncertainty of first romance. Her characters fall in love through emails, from afar, or in t...
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Rainbow Rowell from 2018-06-28T13:00
Rainbow Rowell is a literary chameleon. From a devastating teen love story to a magical realistic marital romance to her latest project, reviving Brian K. Vaughan's Listen
Sabaa Tahir and Renée Ahdieh from 2018-06-14T13:00
Renée Ahdieh and Sabaa Tahir have been shaping the landscape of YA fantasy since the release of their debut novels in 2015. Ahdieh’s Listen
Gayle Forman from 2018-05-31T13:00
Gayle Forman is an author best known for demolishing readers’ hearts. In books like If I St...
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