Secondary Fiction 2026

SEPTEMBER

Web of Spies

By Tim Ayliffe

When Ollie heads out for a run in the park, the last thing he expects to find is a dead body. But th ... Read More

The Sign of the Raven

By Pippa Dunn

In the smog-steeped streets of London, Ashlyn Threadneedle lives a double life. By day she’s a gover ... Read More

On the Outside

By Coral Vass

Emma and Noor share everything: their love of surfing, summer skies and a friendship as deep as the ... Read More

Garden of Lost Girls

By A. L. Tait

A missing girl. A search for answers. But what if the past wants to stay buried? In a quiet, coastal ... Read More

Ruby Jones is Totally Awkward

By Rebecca McRitchie
Illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez

Ruby Jones is that girl. You know that girl? The one who does something totally embarrassing in the ... Read More

Slayer

By Leia Stone

An all-new young adult series from Leia Stone. Perfect for fans of Vampire Academy, Buffy, and House ... Read More

Coming Out At The End Of The World

By Ben Ryan

Hi, I’m Alex. Welcome to the end of the world. Have you ever had a secret so big you’d rather the wo ... Read More

Our Dark Unravelling

By Margot McGovern

When Jude Sinclair is killed in a hunting accident, Lyssa and George feel like their lives have been ... Read More

Pearl Beach

By Beth Steiner

A life-affirming coming-of-age novel about friendship, family and the bittersweet beauty of growing ... Read More

The Waiting Place

By Megan Jacobson

The perfect girl. The teen delinquent. And the bland one. All dead and sharing an unlikely afterlife ... Read More

Stray

By Rebecca Fraser

What happens when breaking the rules is the only way to find yourself? Fifteen-year-old Charli is a ... Read More

AUGUST

A New Kind of Beautiful

By Suzy Zail

A moving novel about love, loss, and the beauty in the things we can't always see. Paige Wilding has ... Read More

Us in the Bright Lights

By Zanni L Arnot

Sometimes, you have to lose everything to find yourself. A swoony and moving novel about ending up i ... Read More

JULY

The Rebound

By Fiona Harris

'Hoop wizard' Harry is relegated to his school's worst basketball team when he misses tryouts, but h ... Read More

We Did It Anyway

By Carla Salmon

Treasure. Smugglers with guns. No way off the island. Luna would do anything for her best friend, Mi ... Read More

Blood of Gods and Girls

By Katja Kaine

A fierce feminist fantasy set in a Singapore-inspired melting pot of Eastern culture - for fans of F ... Read More

Change of Plans

By Sarah Dessen

Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone else’s shadow. Fortunately, she’s got Colin, her ... Read More

Don't Forget to Smile

By Ariane Beeston

You don't stop. You never stop. Not if you want to be the best. Clara has been dancing since she was ... Read More

Eleanor Jones is Not Drowning

By Amy Doak

A new instalment in the award-winning and bestselling series about teen detective Eleanor Jones is h ... Read More

Mirrorwoven

By Bori Cser

You are cordially invited to the Dragon Masquerade … Del has two rules. One: stay away from royalty. ... Read More

Of Venom and Vengeance

By Mikayla Bridge

'HOW MANY TIMES WOULD THEY PRESS BLADES INTO EACH OTHER'S SKIN BEFORE THIS WAS ALL OVER?' Inna is th ... Read More

JUNE

Into The Storm

By Hayley Lawrence

Silas’s life is spiraling out of control when he receives an invitation from Eve to trek the Tasmani ... Read More

Six Take One

By R. A. Stephens

A fast-paced, teen-party-gone-wrong, crime novella. Cassie wonders why she agreed to a New Years Eve ... Read More

A Flash in the Dust

By Meg Caddy

A gripping historical YA thriller, with a dash of queer romance. Think the bushranger version of Fin ... Read More

The Game of Oaths

By S. C. Bandreddi

The high-stakes of The Hunger Games. The rich magical setting of Caraval. The ensemble cast of Six o ... Read More

Lies We Told This Summer

By Emily Barr

From the author of The One Memory of Flora Banks comes a YA true-crime murder-mystery with a romanti ... Read More

Cleopatra: The Girl Who Would Be King

By Jackie French

Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores yo ... Read More

MAY

The Apocalypse and Other Mild Inconveniences

By Alex Dyson

Xavier wants to be a stand-up comedian. But does he have what it takes to stand up? Xavier Gency, 12 ... Read More

Somewhere

By Shelby Matheson

A city wounded by war. A suspicious stranger. A tempting offer with a terrible price. Elsie Clarke's ... Read More

My Wonderful Disgrace

By Angourie Rice & Kate Rice

A funny, edgy dark comedy of errors – the highly anticipated second novel from best-selling authors ... Read More

Don't Let Them Leave

By Mike Lucas

A compelling and spooky thriller in the best classic ghost story tradition. Inspired by Stephen King ... Read More

Survival Show

By Juno Dawson

SING FOR YOUR LIFE! Taryn Beck and her family don’t have much, and her younger brother needs vital m ... Read More

Don't Forget to Remember Me

By Annie Drum

Don’t Forget to Remember Me is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about first love, identity and the va ... Read More

Piper at the Gates of Dusk

By Patrick Ness

The first in a new trilogy set in the world of the groundbreaking Chaos Walking series, which has so ... Read More

Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller

By Amelia Tait

Meet accidental time traveller Lily Tripp as she bounces throughout history navigating friendship dr ... Read More

Flirting with Murder

By Amanda Sellet

Virginia Tillis can solve any murder-mystery. But the murders have always been fictional until now … ... Read More

Tearing Myself Together

By Anna Whateley

Hilzy's life is forever coming undone - and so is her body. Friendship is just one more thing she ca ... Read More

APRIL

The Escape Game

By Tamara Moss
Illustrated by Marissa Meyer

It's all fun and games until someone ends up dead. Six months ago, season four of The Escape Game en ... Read More

The e-Revolution

By Catriona McKeown

All Jolie needs in life is a job -and an e-scooter to get her there. But when the town police launch ... Read More

Counting Down with Theodore Brown

By Daniel Devenney

You can't fight time, or love . . . A coming-of-age love story with a twist!? When Theodore Brown lo ... Read More

The Embarrassing Confessions of Gracie Sparks

By Fiona Harris

Things I need to do this year: Keep writing in this diary (don’t quit after one week like Aunt Lee a ... Read More

MARCH

Poster Boys

By Scott Woodard

A jock, a try-hard and a space cadet. Highview Grammar will rue the day it put 'History' on the curr ... Read More

Good Young Men

By Gary Lonesborough

A brilliant contemporary YA coming-of-age novel about three small-town Aboriginal friends finding th ... Read More

FEBRUARY

Stepping Up

By David Hill

When a sporty, outdoorsy teen's leg is crushed in a mountain-hiking accident, he has to face new cha ... Read More

Gaslit

By Megan Davidhizar

When a night of babysitting turns fatal, a girl burdened with survivor's guilt becomes increasingly ... Read More

Beth Is Dead

By Katie Bernet

Beth March has been murdered, and all her sisters are suspects . . . After a New Year’s Eve party, B ... Read More

Grave Robbing and Other Curious Activities

By Joel McKerrow

There’s a body missing at the morgue. Alexander Steeple should know - he sleeps directly above the c ... Read More

Red Star Rebels

By Amie Kaufman

From the NYT bestselling co-author of Illuminae and Aurora Rising comes a high-stakes, high-chemistr ... Read More

Romeo v Juliet

By R.A. Spratt

The OG enemies-to-lovers story gets the R.A. Spratt treatment! Selby does not want to be in the scho ... Read More

Love Me Tomorrow

By Emiko Jean

Seventeen-year-old Emma doesn’t believe in forever love, not after her parents’ heartbreaking divorc ... Read More