Southwest Teens Top 20: 2025Like this list

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• My Hero Academia

  Team-up Missions. 1, Team-up Missions Begin

  Akiyama, Yōkō (Comic book writer),

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  Southwest teens jumped from MHA to this cool spinoff series, where favorite characters go on missions with established superheroes.

• Heartstopper. Volume 2

  Oseman, Alice,

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  Alice Oseman's romantic graphic novels continue to charm Southwest teens, who worked their way through the series this year.

• Throne of Glass

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  Southwest teens flocked to the start of this popular series, in which a teen assassin must work for a man she hates in order to win her freedom.

• The Hunger Games #1

  Collins, Suzanne

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  The Hunger Games captivated teens all over KPL, including at Southwest, where they started (or reread!) the series.

• One of Us Is Lying #1

  McManus, Karen M.

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  Another exciting series starter grabbed attention at Southwest this year!

• Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. #2

  Aidalro,

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  Where kids in America play Bloody Mary, Japanese students look for Hanako-san. Southwest teens checked out this series, in which the ghost is real...but he's a boy, not a girl!

• If He Had Been With Me #1

  Nowlin, Laura,

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  Autumn and Finn's tragic romance continued to catch teens' attention at Southwest this year. Remember to read the sequel as well!

• Powerless

  Roberts, Lauren, 2002-

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  Like Northside readers, Southwest's patrons checked out the first volume of Lauren Roberts' smash series repeatedly in 2025.

• Wanted!

  Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece

  Oda, Eiichirō, 1975-

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  Fans of One Piece, one of the greatest manga series running, picked up this standalone collection of Oda's other work.

• Into the Pit

  Cawthon, Scott, 1971-

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  FNAF is popular everywhere, but Southwest teens have a particular love for the franchise. They were swept up into the creepy atmosphere of this graphic novel.

• Unravel Me #2

  Mafi, Tahereh

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  Tahereh Mafi's dreamy romantasy series - with its enigmatic, aesthetic covers - still wins patrons' hearts, a decade after it started.

• The False Prince

  Nielsen, Jennifer A.

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  The False Prince is another first-in-a-series experience that Southwest teens tried out!

• One-Punch Man. Volume 3

  ONE, 1986-

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  Funny and brilliantly drawn, One-Punch Man was a series of interest for many Southwest patrons.

• Haikyu!! Volume 1, Hinata and Kageyama

  Furudate, Haruichi, 1983-

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  The world's preeminent volleyball manga was another popular series to start in 2025.

• Delicious in Dungeon. Volume 1

  Kui, Ryoko,

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  Buoyed by a brilliant anime adaptation, Southwest patrons checked out Ryoko Kui's hilarious manga...and if you haven't, you should, too.

• Good Girl, Bad Blood #2

  Jackson, Holly, 1992-

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  Holly Jackson fans continued the story started in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder with this book.

• Jujutsu Kaisen. Volume 1, Ryomen Sukuna

  Akutami, Gege, 1992-

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  Ludicrously strong Yuji Itadori accidentally breaks the seal on a cursed object with his friends, and life is never the same. Teens ate up the series from the start.

• The Maze Runner #1

  Dashner, James, 1972-

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  Another modern classic for teens got looks and checkouts. Since the final book of the sequel trilogy was released this year, it was a great time to step into the story!

• One Piece

  East Blue Part 1 / Volume 1

  Oda, Eiichiro, 1975-

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  We try not to repeat authors, but we'll make an exception for Oda. The live-action Netflix adaptation of One Piece made the first volume of the manga appealing for teens.

• The Cruel Prince 1

  Black, Holly

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  Holly Black's story of intrigue and romance among the Faerie Court appealed to teens looking for more romantasy to read.