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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 400 pages

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyo

Psychological ThrillerWhodunitYoung AdultRacism
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Vanishing Girls

Lauren Oliver · 343 pages

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her si

Psychological ThrillerFriendship and BetrayalTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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Glorious Rivals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 432 pages

Friendship and BetrayalEnsemble CastYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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If Looks Could Kill

Julie Berry · 437 pages

Friendship and BetrayalWhodunitCharacter-DrivenYoung Adult
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Flawless

Sara Shepard · 330 pages

**Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. *Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher*.** ***Emily likes her new friend Maya...as much more than a friend.*** Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. And their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever. And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked

Friendship and BetrayalWhodunitTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages

Boarding SchoolRacismTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas · 485 pages

*"Although this is Australian author Tsiolkas’ fourth novel, it is the first to be published in the U.S. With its raw style, liberal use of profanity and racial epithets, and laserlike focus on the travails of suburban life, it is a down-and-dirty version of Tom Perrotta’s best-selling Little Children (2004). At a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a man loses his temper and slaps the child of the ho

Friendship and BetrayalRacismContemporary FictionCharacter-Driven
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The Last Party

A.R. Torre · 349 pages

Psychological ThrillerWhodunitTense and SuspensefulEnsemble Cast
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All of This Is True

Lygia Day Peñaflor · 432 pages

Friendship and BetrayalPsychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The List

Siobhan Vivian · 333 pages

Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.

Boarding SchoolFriendship and BetrayalCharacter-DrivenYoung Adult
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The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes · 152 pages

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a

Boarding SchoolFriendship and BetrayalContemporary FictionPsychological Thriller
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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

Friendship and BetrayalRacismMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulCharacter-DrivenMystery
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Never Never

Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher · 400 pages

No 1 New York Times bestselling author of Hopeless joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of Mud Vein. Together, they have created a gripping, romantic tale unlike any other. "How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you've never met." Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fo

Psychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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Threshing Day

Rebecca Yarros · 204 pages

Thirteen short stories, set in the Empyrean world, in which cadets compete to earn the bond of a dragon.

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulCharacter-DrivenEnsemble Cast
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Mudbound

Hillary Jordan · 335 pages

"It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm; a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not; charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eld

Friendship and BetrayalTense and SuspensefulEnsemble CastRacism
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Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

Psychological ThrillerWhodunitTense and SuspensefulMultiple POV
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One by One

Ruth Ware · 372 pages

Psychological ThrillerWhodunitTense and SuspensefulMultiple POV
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The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 400 pages

"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and phi

Friendship and BetrayalTense and SuspensefulPsychological ThrillerMultiple POV
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On the Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta · 300 pages

Boarding SchoolFriendship and BetrayalYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula

Boarding SchoolFriendship and BetrayalYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 482 pages

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover

Tense and SuspensefulWhodunitContemporary FictionCharacter-Driven
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Before the Fall

Noah Hawley · 416 pages

The elite have everything: money, cars, private jets and beautiful families. David Whitehead and Ben Kipling are the top of the elite, both influential men with jobs in the media and finance, both travelling back to New York on a private jet after a vacation with their families, and both with secrets that could ruin their lives. Invited on a whim by David's wife, Scott Burroughs, a middle-aged pai

Tense and SuspensefulPsychological ThrillerContemporary FictionEnsemble Cast
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

Boarding SchoolFriendship and BetrayalTense and SuspensefulMystery
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