Earning billions of views and millions of followers, YouTubers entice legions of fans that publishers are eager to attract by translating their brand to the page. Below we round up some recent and anticipated YA releases from this new community of celebrities.
The Last Message Received
Trunko’s collection is based on her Tumblr The Last Message Received, in which the last social media updates, texts, and other messages of people are shared. This is the second book from Trunko, who also wrote 2016’s Dear My Blank: Secret Letters Never Sent.
Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort Of)
Known to 1.4 million YouTube fans as ARose186, Rose’s lifestyle themes make their way to a book for teens that covers everything from makeup to diet to making friends.
The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl (The Haunting of Sunshine Girl #3)
This is the third and final installment of the YA adaptation of the popular YouTube horror series.
Note to Self
S&S’s Atria is banking on the success of published YouTube stars with its Keywords imprint. Franta’s second book for the imprint is another diary-like volume showing the man behind the millions of subscribers.
This is Really Happening
The debut book from BuzzFeed editor Chack, who was diagnosed with cancer at a young age, is a collection of humorous essays about her sometimes fraught life.
Karina Garcia’s DIY Slime
A popular DIY crafter on YouTube, Karina’s book shares plenty of artisanal recipes for making homemade slimes.
Ryan Higa’s How to Write Good
Known on YouTube as nigahiga to more than 19 million subscribers, and with a view count surpassing three billion, Higa’s first book is a memoir combined with his own illustrations, about his struggle with depression before finding an outlet.
101 Things That Piss Me Off
Ballinger’s popular YouTube channel features rants against inanimate objects that rile her up. In her illustrated book, she shares the 101 things that piss her off most.
Adultolescence
Hanna’s YouTube channel, The Gabbie Show, is so popular she earned a Kids’ Choice Award for vlogging. In her first book, a collection of poems, Hanna confronts the experience of growing up.
Undercover Princess (The Rosewood Chronicles #1)
Known on YouTube as Noodlerella, Glynn offers up the first in a middle grade series about a girl entering a school for royalty.
Children of Eden
Graceffa’s YouTube channel boasts more than seven million subscribers, and that fan base translated to big sales for his 2015 memoir In Real Life (Atria/Keywords). Children of Eden is his first novel, a dystopian YA story set in a world with population restrictions.
Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery
Rhett & Link, best friends and L.A. comedy duo, bring their popular classical myth-themed morning show to print, in a book that shares tips from mythology for day-to-day life.
A Very, Very Bad Thing
The Facebook livestreamer made his literary debut with 2016’s Drag Teen (Scholastic); his latest YA novel is about a teen confronting his sexuality amidst intolerance.