- Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A Cole: Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
- Bad Like Us by Gabriella Lepore: While at a private beach lodge with her popular classmates when an anonymous letter leads to murder, Eva places her trust in Colton and together they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers.
- Breathing Underwater by Abbey Lee Nash: Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her distracting feelings for the new guy.
- Cancelled by Farrah Penn: High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
- Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry: When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
- Kindling by Traci Chee: After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings, elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives—must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
- Royal Scandal by Aimee Carter: When an attempt is made on her life, Evan Bright, Britain’s favorite media villain who has been exposed as the King’s illegitimate daughter, must uncover a murderer inside the palace walls who won’t stop until she’s dead.
- The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught: When an unusual order at the bakery sends them on a journey to forage for magical mushrooms, apprentices Juniper and Hadley find their simple errand turning into a thrilling quest to save some furry new friends?—and their caretaker—who are in danger of losing their home.
- The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste: When her mother is murdered, Venus, who brews illegal love potions to support her family, is offered the chance to punish her mother’s killer in exchange for brewing poisonous potions to enslave D.C.’s most influential politicians and soon finds the line between magic and power blurring.
- The Prisoner's Throne : a novel of Elfhame by Holly Black: Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, Prince Oak must decide whether to attempt to regain the trust of the girl he’s always loved or remain loyal to Elfhame and hand over the means to end her reign, even if it means ending Wren, too.
- These Bodies Between Us by Sarah Van Name: In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.
- Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis: After her brother’s suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila’s brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her, and face the possibility it might’ve been her.
- We are Mayhem by Beck Rourke-Mooney: Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
- What Monstress Gods by Rosamund Hodge: After killing Ruven, a heretic sorcerer, and waking the royal family from an enchanted sleep, Lia, born with a miraculous gift, must marry Prince Araunn and forge a pact with a god--or die, discovering the boy she killed may be her only hope of survival.
- Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abaikae-Iyaimaidae: Starting her junior year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy, Sade Hussein decides to investigate when her roommate Elizabeth goes missing and is plunged into a world of dark secrets, ones that rival even her own.
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