While there are a plethora of wonderful winter\/holiday romances out there, I decided to focus my efforts somewhere else for this post. I\u2019ve already done a wintery-themed list for middle grade books<\/a>, so instead I went with snowy\/wintery themed YA books. I don\u2019t think YA books get as much love, just because once books are on the backlist, it\u2019s harder for them to get a lot of play. Teens are constantly chasing the newest and shiniest thing, so I thought I\u2019d share a wide-range YA books today. From holiday stories to science fiction, fantasy and mystery, there\u2019s a little bit of everything on this list and maybe you\u2019ll find something to check out for yourself!<\/p>\n This post may contain affiliate links, which means I\u2019ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read the\u00a0full disclosure<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/em> US-based Elle is a social-media influencer. But sometimes online attention isn\u2019t all it seems from the outside; with a family who are constantly on the move, and so-called friends putting pressure on her to increase her following, she decides to swap places with one of her followers for the holidays.<\/p>\n Holly lives in a small village in England, and LOVES christmas more than anything else. Nothing is going to get in the way of this year being the BEST Christmas ever . . . Nothing! But when her mum announces she\u2019s selling their house, and Woody decides they should go on a \u201cbreak\u201d, her plans for the perfect Christmas start to crumble like overbaked gingerbread people.<\/p>\n Will swapping with Elle be Holly\u2019s perfect opportunity to escape? And far from home, will they both find all they want for Christmas?<\/p>\n Chloe Kwon can\u2019t stand Peter Li. It\u2019s always been that way. Their families don\u2019t get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court\u2015Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it\u2019s the holiday season and Chloe\u2019s the photographer at the mall\u2019s Santa\u2019s Village, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. It\u2019s all Chloe can do to avoid Peter\u2019s smug, incredibly photogenic face.<\/p>\n But it turns out the mall is about to be sold to a developer and demolished for condos. Eviction notices are being handed out right before Christmas. Their parents don\u2019t know what to do, and soon Chloe and Peter realize that the two of them need to join efforts to try to save the mall. Just when it seems like they can put aside their differences and work closely (very closely) together, they discover that the Kwon and Li feud goes far deeper than either of them realize\u2026<\/p>\n Seventeen-year-old Sena Korhosen hates the sled race, especially after it claimed both her mothers\u2019 lives five years ago. Alone on her frozen planet, she makes money any other way she can\u2013until she double-crosses a local gangster.<\/p>\n Desperate to escape, Sena flees with his prized fighting wolf, Iska, and takes an offer from a team of scientists. They\u2019ll pay her way off-world, on one condition\u2013that she uses the survival skills her mothers taught her to get them to the end of the race. But the tundra is a treacherous place. When the race threatens their lives at every turn, Sena must discover whether her abilities are enough to help them survive the wild, and whether she and Iska together are strong enough to get them all out alive.<\/p>\n As the girl and the wolf forge a tenuous bond and fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and the ruthless gang leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: Where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?<\/p>\n It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom\u2019s Subaru.<\/p>\n Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani\u2019s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break.<\/p>\n It could be going better.<\/p>\n But when a dog-walking gig puts her back in May\u2019s path, the fossils she\u2019s meant to be diligently studying are pushed to the side\u2014along with the breakup.<\/p>\n Then they\u2019re snowed in together on Christmas Eve. As things start to feel more serious, though, Shani\u2019s hurt over her ex-girlfriend\u2019s rejection comes rushing back. Is she ready to try a committed relationship again, or is she okay with this just being a passing winter fling?<\/p>\n An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train, setting off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.<\/p>\n A trio of today\u2019s bestselling authors\u2014John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle\u2014brings all the magic of the holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.<\/p>\n All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It\u2019s the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist; she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed of a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as \u201ctroubled waters.\u201d<\/p>\n Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in the middle of the night and hasn\u2019t come back. Neither Imogene\u2019s stepmother nor the police know where he could\u2019ve gone, but Imogene is convinced he\u2019s looking for her mother. And she decides it\u2019s up to her to put to use the skills she\u2019s gleaned from a lifetime of reading her father\u2019s books to track down a woman she\u2019s only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she\u2019s carried with her for her entire life.<\/p>\n For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf\u2013her wolf\u2013is a chilling presence she can\u2019t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It\u2019s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human\u2013or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.<\/p>\n Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in the Whittaker Psychiatric Institute, but deep down, she knows she doesn\u2019t belong there. When she meets a mysterious new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree, she realizes she must escape and figure out who she really is.<\/p>\n After Snow breaks free and races into the nearby woods, she stumbles into icy Algid\u2013her true home\u2013with witches, thieves, and a strangely alluring boy named Kai, none of whom she\u2019s sure she can trust. As secrets are revealed, Snow discovers that she\u2019s on the run from a royal lineage she\u2019s destined to inherit, a father more ruthless than she could have imagined, and choices of the heart that could change everything . . . including Snow\u2019s return to the world she once knew.<\/p>\n With Algid\u2019s fate resting in her hands, will Snow embrace her destiny, even it means paying the ultimate price?<\/p>\n She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust, because Jacin wasn\u2019t going to die.<\/p>\n Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.<\/p>\n Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won\u2019t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend\u2015the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn\u2019t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she\u2019s been undermining her stepmother\u2019s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that\u2019s been raging for far too long. Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?<\/p>\n Deep in his terrifying realm underground, the cold and forbidding Goblin King casts a dark shadow over nineteen-year-old Liesl. Her grandmother had always warned her to follow the old laws, for every year on the longest night of winter the Goblin King will emerge into the waking world in search of his eternal bride. Sensible and plain, Liesl knows it\u2019s her duty to keep her beautiful sister safe from harm, but she wishes only to indulge in her wild, captivating music, composed and played in secret in the Goblin King\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n When her beautiful sister K\u00e4the is stolen by the Goblin King, Liesl knows she must set aside her childish fantasies to journey to the Underground and save her. Drawn despite herself to the strange, beautiful world she finds\u2013and the mysterious man who rules it\u2013she finds herself facing an impossible choice. With time and the old laws working against her, Liesl must discover who she truly is before her fate is sealed.<\/p>\n Top Ten Tuesday was created by\u00a0The Broke and the Bookish<\/a>\u00a0in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.<\/p>\n While there are a plethora of wonderful winter\/holiday romances out there, I decided to focus my efforts somewhere else for this post. I\u2019ve already done a wintery-themed list for middle grade books, so instead I went with snowy\/wintery themed YA books. 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All I Want for Christmas<\/em><\/a> by Beth Garrod<\/h3>\n
The Christmas Clash<\/a><\/em> by Suzanne Park<\/h3>\n
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves<\/a><\/em> by Meg Long<\/h3>\n
How to Excavate a Heart<\/a><\/em> by Jake Maia Arlow<\/h3>\n
Let It Snow<\/a><\/em> by John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson<\/h3>\n
The Mystery of Hollow Places<\/a><\/em> by Rebecca Podos<\/h3>\n
Shiver<\/a><\/em> by Maggie Stiefvater<\/h3>\n
Stealing Snow<\/a><\/em> by Danielle Paige<\/h3>\n
Winter<\/a><\/em> by Marissa Meyer<\/h3>\n
Wintersong<\/a><\/em> by S. Jae-Jones<\/h3>\n
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