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Under the Surface
Kirkus: 6 Back-to-School Novels that Deliver Teen Drama (September 2024)
Amazon: The #1 Best YA Book & Personal Editor Pick for August 2024
Publishers Weekly: "A delight from start to finish" ⭐️ starred review ⭐️ (May 2024)
The Nerd Daily: Read an Excerpt from 'Under the Surface' by Diana Urban (May 2024)
Junior Library Guild: Under the Surface is a 2024 Gold Standard Selection! (May 2024)
Kirkus: "A nonstop thrill ride through an eerily claustrophobic setting: (May 2024)
Goodreads: New YA Books to Keep Teens (and Adults!) Reading All Summer Long (May 2024)
SheReads: Most Anticipated YA Thrillers of Summer 2024 (April 2024)
Lying in the Deep
People Magazine: Best Books of Summer 2023: Our Must-Reads for Summer (June 2023)
BookBub: 15 Mysteries and Thrillers Set at Sea (June 2023)
Literary Hub: 12 YA Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror Novels to Check Out in 2023 (January 2023)
Publishers Weekly: 2023 Dark Academia Novels for Teens (January 2023)
CrimeReads: 12 YA Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror Novels to Check Out in 2023 (January 2023)
Goodreads: 2023's Most Anticipated Young Adult Books (January 2023)
Buzzfeed: Here's 40 of the Most Anticipated YA Books of 2023 (December 2022)
SheReads: Most Anticipated YA Books of 2023 (December 2022)
Brightly: The Most Exciting YA Books Coming in 2023 (December 2022)
Forever Young Adult: 2023 Most Anticipated Books (December 2022)
All Your Twisted Secrets
Honor Title in the San Jose Public Library Mock Printz Awards, 2021 (All Your Twisted Secrets)
Barnes & Noble: 11 YA Mysteries and Thrillers Set on Campus (July 2023)
Collider: 10 Mystery Novels to Read Before Watching 'Glass Onion' (December 2022)
Epic Reads: 14 Whodunit YA Books to Read if You Love Knives Out (September 2022)
Elite Daily: 10 Books to Read if you Love Squid Game (October 2021)
Epic Reads: 2020's YA Fiction Books to Read Before the Year Ends (November 2020)
BuzzFeed: New YA Thrillers and Mysteries You Won't Want to Put Down (July 2020)
The Nerd Daily: Read These 2020 YA Mystery Books for the Ultimate Thrill Ride (April 2020)
Paste Magazine: The Best Young Adult Books of 2020 (March 2020)
Goodreads: The Best Young Adult Books of March (March 2020)
Epic Reads: YA Books that Wonderfully Blend Revenge and Romance (March 2020)
Publishers Weekly: Children's Book Review - All Your Twisted Secrets (January 2020)
BookBub: The Young Adult Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2020 (January 2020)
PopSugar: New Thriller and Mystery Books to Look Out For in 2020 (January 2020)
PopSugar: Promising New YA Books to Look Out For in 2020 (December 2019)
Forever Young Adult: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 (December 2019)
School Library Journal: All Your Twisted Secrets Review (November 2019)
SheReads: The Most Anticipated YA Books of 2020 (October 2019)
Hypable: ‘All Your Twisted Secrets’ Cover Reveal, Excerpt (July 2019)
The Big Thrill: Unlocking the Allure of Locked-Room Thrillers (March 2019)
These Deadly Games
Winner of the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 2022-2023 (These Deadly Games)
YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, 2023 (These Deadly Games)
Salon: Books for Hard-to-Shop Teens and Tweens (December 2022)
Cosmopolitan: 10 of the Best New Books to Read (February 2022)
Girls Life: 8 Books to Read Based on the Cutest Candy Heart Messages (February 2022)
The Nerd Daily: Q&A: Diana Urban, Author of These Deadly Games (February 2022)
Paste Magazine: The Best New Young Adult Books of February 2022 (February 2022)
BookRiot: Most Anticipated Books of 2022 (January 2022)
Goodreads: The 68 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2022 (January 2022)
The Nerd Daily: 72 Upcoming YA Book Releases to Add To Your TBR (January 2022)
Seventeen: The Ten Best Young Adult Books Arriving in 2022 (December 2021)
Buzzfeed: 40 Highly Anticipated YA Books Releasing in the First Half of 2020 (November 2021)
She Reads: Best Fiction Books Coming in 2022 (November 2021)
