Reading Recommendations
The most popular YA titles checked out by South Burlington patrons in 2021:
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1. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Barnes |
| When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. | |
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2. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas |
| Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. | |
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3. One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus |
| When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case. | |
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4. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard |
| Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. | |
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5. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo |
| Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first. | |
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6. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo |
| Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. | |
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7. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas |
| Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. | |
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8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas |
| Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it. | |
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9. The Cousins by Karen McManus |
| After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets. | |
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10. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo |
| Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner. | |
Top YA Picks of 2021 (pdf)See more of our top titles here.
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |
| Ten strangers--each with a sordid past--are summoned by an absent millionaire to a private island off the coast of Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival. | |
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead |
| Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. | |
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The Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco |
| Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost - even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. | |
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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black |
| Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade. | |
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Renegades by Marissa Meyer |
| The Renegades are human, but with extraordinary abilities. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and is on a mission for vengeance. Adrian is a Renegade boy who believes in justice-- and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both. | |
Trending Now:
New Release: Gallant by V.E. Schwab:
"Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.
#1 New York Times–bestselling author V. E. Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about the place where the world meets its shadow, and the young woman beckoned by both sides. The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak in this stand-alone novel perfect for readers of Holly Black and Neil Gaiman.
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home; it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile, or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways." -adapted from the publisher.
Author of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue and A Darker Shade of Magic is back with a YA novel that crosses Gothic Horror and Fantasy, coming soon to SBPL.
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