Summer Reads

Boarding school has never been more dangerous.What if your roommate is a murderer? Or what if he's being framed and only you can save him?Luke Chase made history as a child when he escaped a kidnapping. Now, all he wants is to be a normal teenager. So...

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes...

18-year-old Opal is a young Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s-and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America's tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. This...

With elements of both slasher movies and classic whodunits, Murphy’s dark, sinuous YA thriller focuses on a teenage girl desperately trying to stay one step ahead of a serial attacker. One of Us is Lying meets This Lie Will Kill You but with a...

Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020 When Allison runs away from home she doesn't expect to be taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia, who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and...

Katie can't leave her house during the day: she has a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. But everything changes when one night, singing her heart out on a deserted station platform, she meets Charlie. Before the night is...

'Captivates, inspires and ultimately enriches' -- Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzNominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019Rose, Ella, Mina and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood...

Don't miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . 'Fascinating and enthralling' -- Prima'Wonderfully atmospheric and compelling' -- Rosamund Lupton'A flawless read' -- Elizabeth Lee'Seething with gothic...

The Ex Hex is a spellbinding rom-com with a twist, think Practical Magic in the Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow . . .New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes,...

'An outstanding page-turner . . . historical fiction at its absolute best' - Alison Weir'An engaging heroine . . . and Borman's depiction of Villiers, with all his ruthless charisma, is striking' - The Sunday TimesFrances Gorges has happiness within her...

You're still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you're having an open casket funeral. I know you're out there, listening. And you should know I'm really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet...

A teenage girl wonders if she's inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable debut.Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross...

The enchanting sequel to the No. 1 New York Timesbestseller A Tale of Magic, from the author of The Land of Stories, Chris Colfer. Perfect for readers of The School for Good and Evil and Pages & Co.Brystal Evergreen changed the world, but the journey...

The #1 New York Times bestseller!A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines, twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling thriller author Natasha Preston!Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her-and three other girls: Rose,...

The instant New York Times bestseller!In this twisty psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE CELLAR, Ivy finds out that her twin sister, Iris, is trying to push her out of her own life--and might be responsible for...

A People Best Book of Summer 2020A Parade Best Book of Summer 2020"The YA thriller of the summer." -BustleFor fans of Sadie and Serial, this gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the...

Trained at Miss Preston's School of Combat for Negro Girls in both weaponry and etiquette, Jane McKeene is poised for a successful career protecting the wealthy from the encroaching plague of walking dead. But when families begin to go missing, Jane...

The opening salvo in a new sequence, Nothing Ventured introduces the detective William Warwick. The fictional hero of the series written by Harry Clifton, protagonist of Archer’s Clifton Chronicles books, Warwick’s career is traced from green recruit to...

Fiction Book of the Month for September 2017 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be Both. All across the country, there was misery and...

With superb illustrations, Sea Prayer sings with tenderness: a hymn to a destroyed country and a broken life. All author proceeds go to the UN Refugee Agency and the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. A heart-wrenching story from the international...