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Dahlia Adler is an American author of young adult and new adult fiction. Personal life Dahlia Adler was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs. She is a graduate of New York University, with a BA in journalism. In addition to writing novels, she also runs the queer representation-focused blog LGBTQreads.com, and was a blogger at the Barnes & Noble Teen blog from December 2013 until November 2019 and a contributor to Buzzfeed Books from January 2020 to April 2023. As of June 2023, she is a monthly guest contributor to the Romance blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Selected works Adler's debut young adult novel, Behind the Scenes, about high school senior Ally who gets entangled in her celebrity best friend Vanessa's Hollywood life when she falls for her co-star, was published in 2014 by Spencer Hill. It has also been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Kiwi. A companion novel, Under the Lights, followed in 2015. In the companion novel Vanessa has to deal with a new co-star while Ally is off at college, and the former unexpectedly falls for the girl assigned by her publicist to handle her. Under the Lights was included on ALA's Rainbow Book List in 2016. Adler wrote a three-book new adult series called Radleigh University. The third book, Out on Good Behavior, was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Awards in both Teen Literature and Romance. In 2021, Adler published her first young adult novel in five years, Cool for the Summer, with Wednesday Books. It was an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and Alma's choice for Best YA of 5781. Her next novel, Home Field Advantage, released on June 7, 2022, and was an Indie Next Pick and Junior Library Guild selection. Her next novel, Going Bicoastal, released in June 2023 and received a Sydney Taylor Book Award silver medal for YA. All three books are on the ALA Rainbow Book List. Adler is the editor of His Hideous Heart, an anthology of retellings of Edgar Allan Poe stories, featuring authors Kendare Blake, Rin Chupeco, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn, Amanda Lovelace, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Hillary Monahan, Marieke Nijkamp, Caleb Roehrig, and Fran Wilde, which was published by Flatiron in 2019. It was named a Junior Library Guild selection and a Best YA of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. In 2019, she announced her next anthology, That Way Madness Lies, a collection of reimaginings of Shakespeare's work; it published in 2021 and named a Bank Street Best Young Adult Book of the Year. Her third anthology, At Midnight, released in 2022. She also contributed to three young adult anthologies out with Candlewick in 2018, Harlequin Teen in 2018, and Knopf in 2019. Bibliography Young Adult Novels Behind the Scenes (2014, Spencer Hill) Under the Lights (2015, Spencer Hill) Just Visiting (2015, Spencer Hill) Cool for the Summer (2021, Wednesday Books) Home Field Advantage (2022, Wednesday Books) Going Bicoastal (2023, Wednesday Books) My Name is Everett (2025, Wednesday Books) Editor His Hideous Heart (2019, Flatiron Books) That Way Madness Lies (2021, Flatiron Books) At Midnight (2022, Flatiron Books) Out of Our League (with Jennifer Iacopelli) (2024, Feiwel & Friends) For the Rest of Us (2025, Quill Tree Books) Anthologies (contributor) "Daughter of the Book" in The Radical Element, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018, Candlewick) "Molly's Lips" in All Out, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018, Harlequin Teen) "Two Truths and an Oy" in It's a Whole Spiel, edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke (2019, Knopf) "Lygia" in His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler (2019, Flatiron Books) "I Bleed" in That Way Madness Lies, edited by Dahlia Adler (2021, Flatiron Books) "Say My Name" in At Midnight, edited by Dahlia Adler (2022, Flatiron Books) "Volley Girl" in Out of Our League, edited by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli (2024, Feiwel & Friends) New Adult Last Will and Testament (2014) Right of First Refusal (2016) Out on Good Behavior (2016) Honors and awards 2016: Bisexual Book Award in Teen Literature and Romance for Out on Good Behavior (nominated) 2019: Publishers Weekly Starred Review for His Hideous Heart 2021: Indie Next List (Cool for the Summer) 2021: Alma Award for Best Jewish YA Novel of 5781 for Cool for the Summer 2022: Publishers Weekly Starred Review for Home Field Advantage 2022: Indie Next List (Home Field Advantage) 2022: Publishers Weekly Starred Review for At Midnight 2023: Indie Next List (Going Bicoastal) 2024: Indie Next List (Out of Our League) 2024: Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor for Going Bicoastal References. Discover the Dahlia Adler popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dahlia Adler books.

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  • Under the Lights synopsis, comments

    Under the Lights

    Dahlia Adler

    Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, his parents' wealth, and the occasional modeling gig. But his laidback lifestyle is about to ...

  • Just Visiting synopsis, comments

    Just Visiting

    Dahlia Adler

    Reagan Forrester wants outout of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas.​V...

  • Out on Good Behavior synopsis, comments

    Out on Good Behavior

    Dahlia Adler

    Frankie Bellisario knows she can get anyone she sets her sights on, but just because she can doesn't mean she shouldnot when the person she's eyeing is Samara Kazarian, the daughte...

  • Right of First Refusal synopsis, comments

    Right of First Refusal

    Dahlia Adler

    On the lacrosse field, Cait Johanssen gets what she wants. Off the field is another story. Because what she wants is the school's hot new basketball studentcoach, Lawrence Mason, w...

  • Cool for the Summer synopsis, comments

    Cool for the Summer

    Dahlia Adler

    "Witty, wise, and disarmingly tender. I am hopelessly devoted to this summer dream of a book." Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Age...

  • Behind the Scenes synopsis, comments

    Behind the Scenes

    Dahlia Adler

    High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be Vanessa Park star of Daylight Falls, TV's hottest new teen drama but Ally's not interested in following in her BFF's Hollywood...

  • Last Will and Testament synopsis, comments

    Last Will and Testament

    Dahlia Adler

    Lizzie Brandt was valedictorian of her high school class, but at Radleigh University, all she's acing are partying and hooking up with the wrong guys. But all that changes when her...

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    That Way Madness Lies

    Dahlia Adler

    In That Way Madness Lies, fifteen acclaimed writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics! “From comedy to tragedy to sonnet, from texts to storms to ...