#10: Gradchanted – von Morgan Matson
What is it about?
Eighteen-year-old Cass Issac doesn’t believe in sticking around. She’s had to move a lot due to her dads house-flipping business—always a different school, always a new friend group. She’s learned there’s no need for drawn-out-goodbyes with people you’ll lose touch with anyway. Which makes Grad Nite at Disneyland the perfect way to finish up high school, and have a magical last night with her best friend, Bryony – before she leaves once again. But amid the roller coaster rides and Cars Land dance party, the night turns into one big disaster.
#9: The Scorpion and the Night Blossom – von Amélie Wen Zhao
What is it about?
Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn’yīng’s family apart, leaving her mother barely alive and a baby sister to fend for. Now the mortal realm is falling into eternal night, and mó—beautiful, ravenous demons—roam the land, feasting on the flesh of humans and drinking their souls. Àn’yīng is no longer a helpless child, though. Armed with her crescent blades and trained in the ancient art of practitioning, she has decided to enter the Immortality Trials…
#8: After Life – von Gayle Forman
Um was geht’s?
One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It’s just another perfectly normal day. But when Amber’s mom sees her, she screams. Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she’s inexplicably riding now. This return doesn’t only impact Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber’s estranged parents are battling over her. In the midst of everyone’s turmoil, Amber is struggling with herself. How and why was she given this second chance?
#7: While We’re Young – von K. L. Walther
What is it about?
Grace, Isa, and Everett used to be an inseparable trio before their love lives became a tangled mess. For starters, Grace is secretly in love with Everett, who used to go out with Isa before breaking her heart in the infamous Freshman Year Fracture. And, oh yeah, no one knows that Isa has been hanging out with James, Grace’s brother—and if Grace finds out, it could ruin their friendship. With graduation fast approaching, Grace decides an unsanctioned senior skip day in Philadelphia might be just what they need to fix things.
#6: They Bloom at Night – von Trang Thanh Tran
What is it about?
Ever since a hurricane devastated the small town of Mercy, Louisiana, a red algae bloom has taken over. Mutated wildlife lurks in the water that rises by the day, but Mercy has always been a place where monsters walk in plain sight. Especially at its heart: the Cove, where Noon’s life was upended long before the storm at a party her older boyfriend insisted on. Now, Noon is stuck navigating the submerged town with her mom, who believes their family have been reincarnated as sea creatures.
#5: Scot and Bothered – von Alexandra Kiley
What is it about?
Aspiring writer Brooke Sinclair dreams of seeing her words in print, which she should have thought of five years ago before falling for her teaching assistant and being driven out of uni. When her ailing mentor, Professor McCallister, asks her to co-write her memoir, she jumps at the chance. Her insistence that Brooke hike the rugged, eighty-mile Skye Trail for authenticity’s sake is the least of her worries – the photographer she hired is none other than Jack Sutherland, Professor McCallister’s nephew and the TA who broke Brooke’s heart.
#4: Our Infinite Fates – von Laura Steven
What is it about?
Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the one she’s in now, and more importantly, her sister needs her for bone marrow transplants to stay alive. So now she has to find the centuries-old enemy who hunts her through each life and try quite hard not to fall in love with them…again.
#3: Fable for the End of the World – von Ava Reid
What is it about?
In post-atomic New York, one girl is selected to pay off her mother’s debt by dying—or killing—in a televised Gauntlet but instead falls in love with the assassin, in this sapphic stand-alone postapocalyptic romance with a Hunger Games twist, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and The Last of Us.
#2: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – von Suzanne Collins
What is it about?
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town.
#1: Bingsu for Two – von Sujin Witherspoon
What is it about?
Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he’s dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents› Seattle cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion – even for him. Somehow, he manages to talk his way into a job at a failing Korean cafe, Bingsu for Two. This could be his lucky break – but then he meets grumpy goth Sarang Cho, his new, no-BS co-worker, and she is as determined to make River’s life hell as she is to save her family’s cafe.
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