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Aherin, Cecelia FLAWED DUOLOGY

1. Flawed 2. Perfect

In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl

takes a stand.

Key words: dystopia, science fiction

Bacigalupi, Paolo SHIP BREAKER

1. Ship Breaker 2. The Drowned

Cities 3. Tool of War

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip

the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Key words: science fiction, fast-paced, bleak

Baldwin, Kathleen STRANJE HOUSE

1. A School for Unusual Girls

2. Exile for Dreamers

3. Refuge for Masterminds

Banished to a boarding school to be reformed into marriageable young ladies in war-torn early 19th-

century England, Miss Georgiana and her new friends are secretly entangled in a world of spies,

diplomacy and romance.

Key words: historical fantasy, romantic, fast-paced


Bracken, Alexandra PASSENGER

1. Passenger 2. Wayfarer

When a violin prodigy who has lost everything wakes up on a ship in another time period, a man who wants to escape a life of servitude is forced to

confront his past while keeping his former captors from claiming a stolen object of untold value.

Key words: fantasy, suspense, romance, time travel

Buckley, Michael UNDERTOW

1. Undertow 2. Raging Sea 3. Heart of the

Storm

A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors

marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island.

Key words: urban fantasy, suspenseful, action-

packed, romantic

Caine, Rachel THE GREAT LIBRARY

1. Ink and Bone 2. Paper and Fire 3. Ash and Quill

In a world where the Great Library of Alexandria governs the flow of information to the people, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe

that knowledge is more valuable than human life after his friend inadvertently commits heresy.

Key words: dystopia, fantasy

Cameron, Sharon FORGETTING DUOLOGY

1. The Forgetting 2. The Knowing

Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of

bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any

trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out

what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.

Key words: dystopia, romance, suspense


Carson, Rae THE GOLD SEER TRILOGY

1. Walk on Earth a Stranger

2. Like a River Glorious

3. Into the Bright Unknown

Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when

her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous

journey.

Key words: historical fantasy, romance, suspenseful

Chokshi, Roshani STAR-TOUCHED QUEEN

1. The Star-Touched Queen

2. A Crown of Wishes

Sixteen-year-old Maya's arranged marriage turns out much better than she expected, but her husband's magic--and her curiosity--may threaten more than

her life.

Key words: world-building high fantasy, lush writing style, strong female character

Colasanti, Susane CITY LOVE

1. City Love 2. Lost in Love 3. Forever in Love

Told from alternating points of view, City Love is the story of three very different girls living together in NYC as they struggle to find the balance between

their dreams, their pasts, and their complicated hearts

Key words: multiple perspectives, contemporary,

romance, post-high school life

Dayton, Arwen SEEKER SERIES

1. Seeker 2. Traveler 3. Disruptor

After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid,

fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.

Key words: multiple perspectives, genre blending sci-

fi-fantasy-steampunk


Elliott, Kate COURT OF FIVES

1. Court of Fives 2. Poisoned Blade 3. Buried Heart

When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-

ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother

and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.

Key words: world-building high fantasy, compelling

Gier, Kerstin SILVER TRILOGY

1. Dream a Little Dream

2. Dream On 3. Just Dreaming

Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home

and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn

bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys

who happen to be her new classmates.

Key words: paranormal, romance, magic

Grey, Melissa THE GIRL AT MIDNIGHT

1. The Girl at Midnight

2. The Shadow Hour 3. The Savage

Dawn

A girl, who's adopted and raised by a race of creatures with feathers for hair and magic in their veins, becomes involved in an ancient war and a

centuries-old love, discovering startling truths about the world she lives in

Key words: multiple perspectives, urban fantasy,

plot-driven

Hall, Maggie THE CONSPIRACY OF US SERIES

1. The Conspiracy of Us

2. Map of Fates 3. The Ends of the

World

When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a

trail of clues across Europe.

Key words: thriller, suspense


Han, Jenny TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE

1. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

2. PS I Still Love You

3. Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day

those letters are accidentally sent

Key words: contemporary romance, engaging

Heilig, Heidi THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE

1. The Girl from Everywhere

2. The Ship Beyond Time

Growing up beside her father on a time-traveling ship that ventures to real and imaginary places, 16-year-old Nix struggles to preserve her life when her father obsessively pursues a map in a past time period in

ways that threaten her existence.

Key words: fantasy, fast-paced, time travel

Isbell, Tom THE PREY

1. The Prey 2. The Capture 3. The Release

After the apocalyptic Omega, a group of orphaned teen boys learn of their dark fate and escape, joining

forces with twin girls who have been imprisoned for the 'good of the republic.' In their plight for

freedom, these young heroes must find the best in themselves to fight against the worst in their enemies

Key words: dystopia, science fiction

Jordan, Sophie REIGN OF SHADOWS

1. Reign of Shadows

2. Rise of Fire

Hiding in a tower and faking her death after an evil chancellor murdered her parents and seized the

throne, Princess Luna flees her shelter alongside a mysterious archer and finds their burgeoning love

threatening her survival.

Key words: high fantasy, romantic


Lackey, Mercedes. HUNTER

1. Hunter 2. Elite 3. Apex

Centuries ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were slashed open, allowing

monsters from mythology through to destroy much of civilization. Now, only the corps of Hunters with

magical abilities can protect the populace from the continuing attacks. Joy, a mountain girl from a close

knit village who comes to the big city to join the Hunters, thinks she is only there to perform her

civic duty, but soon becomes aware of some disturbing truths that force her to question everything

she grew upbelieving.

Key words: dystopia, fantasy, action-packed

Landers, Melissa STARFLIGHT

1. Starflight 2. Starfall

Desperate to relocate to an off-world place where nobody cares about her humble working status or

her criminal past, Solara Brooks indentures herself to a rich bully who pretends to be her servant on a starship full of eccentric crewmates after he is

framed for conspiracy on Earth.

Key words: science fiction, multiple perspectives, romance

Matharu, Taran THE SUMMONER SERIES

1. The Novice 2. The Inquisition 3. The Battlemage

When Fletcher, a blacksmith's apprentice, learns he can summon demons, he travels with his demon to

an academy for adepts where he is to train as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the orcs, but

he discovers that all is not as it seems

Key words: fast-paced, high fantasy

May, Elizabeth THE FALCONER

1. The Falconer 2. The Vanishing

Throne 3. The Fallen

Kingdom

In 1844 Edinburgh eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron is neither an ordinary debutante, nor a

murderess--she is a Falconer, a female warrior born with the gift for hunting and killing the faeries who

prey on mankind and who killed her mother

Key words: historical fantasy, plot-driven, steampunk


O’Brien, Caragh VAULT OF DREAMERS

1. The Vault of Dreamers

2. The Rule of Mirrors

3. The Keep of Ages

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and

discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.

Key words: science fiction, fast-paced

Oakes, Colleen QUEEN OF HEARTS SAGA

1. Queen of Hearts 2. Blood of

Wonderland 3. War of the Cards

Follows the downward spiral of princess Dinah, whose future reign in Wonderland is threatened by a

devastating betrayal that leaves her with a broken heart and taking on the personality of the Queen of

Hearts.

Key words: fantasy, suspenseful

Oliver, Lauren REPLICA

1. Replica 2. Ringer

In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma

get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while

uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.

Key words: science fiction, experimental format

Paige, Danielle DOROTHY MUST DIE SERIES

1. Dorothy Must Die 2. The Wicked Will

Rise 3. Yellow Brick War 4. The End of Oz

Extra: Dorothy Must Die: Stories

Whisked to Oz by a Kansas twister, Amy Gumm discovers that the magical land has been destroyed by Dorothy's tyrannical rule, a situation that compels Amy to join an order of deposed magic-wielders who

seek to put an end to Dorothy's reign.

Key words: dystopia, fantasy, action-packed, gruesome


Ritter, William JACKABY

1. Jackaby 2. Beastly Bones 3. Ghostly Echoes 4. The Dire King

Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator

of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial

murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.

Key words: supernatural mystery, Sherlock Holmes

meets Doctor Who

Rossi, Veronica RIDERS

1. Riders 2. Seeker

After regaining consciousness from a seemingly fatal accident, eighteen-year-old U.S. Army Ranger Gideon Blake discovers that he is War, one the

legendary Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and together with Conquest, Famine, and Death, must

save humanity from an ancient evil.

Key words: urban fantasy, intricately plotted

Russell, Romina ZODIAC

1. Zodiac 2. Wandering Star 3. Black Moon 4. Thirteen Rising

When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing

thousands of citizens, Rhoma Grace, a sixteen-year-old student from House Cancer, must convince

twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac against Ophiuchus, the exiled thirteenth Guardian of Zodiac

legend, who has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy.

Key words: science fiction, fast-paced, richly detailed

Salisbury, Melinda THE SIN EATER’S DAUGHTER

1. The Sin Eater’s Daughter

2. The Sleeping Prince

3. The Scarecrow Queen

For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the castle of Lormere, the goddess-embodied, whose

touch can poison and kill, and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is immune to her touch returns to the kingdom

she finds herself caught up in palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who

claims to love her.

Key words: high fantasy, strong female character, world-building


Schwab, Victoria MONSTERS OF VERITY

1. This Savage Song

2. Our Dark Duet

As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met.

A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray

area in between

Key words: urban fantasy, action-packed

Scott Sigler GENERATIONS TRILOGY

1. Alive 2. Alight 3. Alone

Waking up in a mysterious enclosed space with no memory of their identities, a group of adults uncovers

evidence of a long-past war and the horrifying realities of their confinement.

Key words: science fiction, fast-paced, suspenseful

Shepherd, Megan THE CAGE

1. The Cage 2. The Hunt 3. The Gauntlet

Cora wakes up in a cage on an alien planet where she meets the Kindred, her mysterious alien captors, and along with other teenager abductees must find a

way to escape back to Earth

Key words: science fiction, action-paced, fast paced

Vega, Danielle THE MERCILESS

1. The Merciless 2. The Exorcism of

Sofia Flores 3. Origins of Evil

In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike

Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.

Key words: horror, creepy, gruesome


Key Words

Action-packed: pulse-pounding, high-octane excitement is the rule!

Bleak: dark outlook, frequently devoid of faith in human nature and tending away from hope or

optimism

Compelling: these powerful books draw readers irresistibly into the story.

Creepy: unsettling in a visceral, skin-crawling way, these books make the reader uneasy, and may

often have supernatural elements and eerie settings.

Dystopia: These books feature repressive governments or systems of social control that force

individual citizens to question the status quo and challenge the establishment.

Engaging: capture the imagination of readers through narrative style, character, or use of detail.

Fast-paced: events in these exciting books unfold rapidly, moving the reader quickly through the story

Gruesome: not for the squeamish, these books include a significant amount of explicit gore or other

grisly elements.

High fantasy: With dragons, wizards, and questing heroes, these books fully embrace traditional

fantasy storytelling.

They are set in alternate worlds filled with magic and fantastic creatures.

Historical fantasy: These stories feature magic, mythical creatures, and other fantastical elements...in

otherwise recognizable historical settings and periods.

Plot-driven: events rather than characters propel these stories forward.

Romantic: not genre romances, but featuring strong romantic elements—either between characters or

in the story itself

Steampunk: stylish retro-futurism evokes the society, politics, and clockwork aesthetics of the

Industrial Revolution.

Suspenseful: ranging in intensity from subtle psychological unease to nail-biting suspense, these

books keep readers on edge.

Unconventional: using unique or unexpected elements, these books may twist, adapt, or play on

conventional storylines.

World-building: immerse the reader in vivid imaginary worlds of invented histories, languages,

geography, or cultures.

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