Ready for some teen screams? With fall on the way, here are some of the hottest and most immersive YA thrillers you won’t want to miss. From debut authors to the return of some great storytellers, here are the best stories for some bingeworthy books that go great with the chill in the air!
One House Left by Vincent Ralph (8/27)
Compared to R.L. Stine and the movie Urban Legend, Nate Campbell is a sixteen-year-old who has lived in the shadow of Murder Road. As if the name isn’t sinister enough, this street has a chilling history of being haunted by a spirit called the Hiding Boy. For six decades, every few years, a different house experiences a tragedy. Hoping to escape the curse, Nate and his family move to a new town only for him to be unexpectedly dragged into an urban legend club full of new ghost stories.
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The Champions by Kara Thomas (8/27)
In the sequel to The Cheerleaders, we are back in Sunnybrook, now infamous following the death of five cheerleaders. The town just wants to move on now that justice has been served and the killer is no longer a threat. When Hadley moves to Sunnybrook, the town is now obsessing over the Tigers, the high-school football team. When Hadley is assigned a story about the Tigers championship for the school paper, one of the players is poisoned at a party and Hadley begins to receive strange emails warning her to stay away from the team.
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Ruin Road by Lamar Giles (9/17)
Cade Webster lives in two different worlds. At school, he’s a standout football star but he lives in the wrong neighborhood if you ask his classmates. Outside of his neighborhood, people are afraid of him for being too big, too fast, too ambitious, and too Black. After avoiding an encounter with the police one night, Cade finds himself in a pawn shop venting to the owner how he wished people would stop being so afraid of him. When his wish is granted, Cade’s life changes and so does the world around him. Now people are no longer afraid of anything and acts of violence occur everywhere around him. Now it’s time to face his own fears and take one chance to save his world as he knows it.
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Influencer by Adam Cesare (10/1)
Told from alternating points of view, Influencer tackles the dark side of social media and the cult influence it can have on teenagers. When a charismatic new student arrives at her high school, a teenage girl is highly suspicious of him and believes he could even be a psychopath. When her friends begin to fall under his influence one by one, she’s even more determined to find out who he really is.
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The Bitter End by Alexa Donne (10/15)
The elite Warner Prep is preparing for their Senior Excursion and it’s not just a field trip. The class is headed to a remote Colorado ski cabin for five days. What eight students didn’t expect was a digital detox and the trip to actually be quite a bore. When classmates start to die in mysterious ways, a blizzard hits and everyone is trapped, forcing them to question who could be next and who is responsible.
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The Debutantes by Olivia Worley (10/29)
The Les Masques Ball is the social event of the season for New Orleans elite. This year, people are on edge a little bit after last year’s debutante Margot Landry was found dead. While no one was truly surprised as Margot had a wild streak, this year’s queen, Lily LeBlanc, is perfectly poised. When her ball is hijacked by a mysterious guest in a Jester costume, Lily sends a text to her three best friends asking them to meet her in the morning…but Lily never shows up. When the three girls find that they were brought there for a reason, they must work together to uncover a dark secret in the debutante scene and find out what really happened to Lily before it’s too late.
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The Red Rock Killer by Melissa Yi (11/1)
When a thirteen-year-old decides they want to find the Red Rock Killer, two of their friends join them on a hike across the Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas. Who needs a summer of boredom when you can solve a mystery? After stumbling across a barrel, the kids are soon on the police’s radar and finding the identity of the person who is terrorizing Las Vegas is more important than ever.
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When Mimi Went Missing by Suja Sukumar (11/19)
Tanvi is shy and a little nerdy, but always felt her cousin Mimi was like a sister to her. When Tanvi’s parents died in a tragic accident, Mimi’s family raised her. Things took a bit of a turn when Mimi started hanging out with Beth, a girl who bullied Tanvi. After Tanvi takes an incriminating photo of Mimi and Beth at a party for her own leverage, she wakes up the next morning with a bump on her head and no memory of what happened. The worst of it, Mimi is missing, and Tanvi begins to take matters into her own hands as the cops announce they are looking for a murderer.
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If You Can Hear This by Faith Gardner (11/19)
Posey Spade is an aspiring journalist and loves asking hard-hitting questions. After just moving to the small town of Wild Pines, Posey thinks there’s nothing newsworthy happening here. When the AV Club’s sponsor and teacher Ms. Moses disappears, Posey joins the AV Club into taking matters into their own hands. Not only does Posey find that the town harbors a lot of secrets, but she realizes this may just be the place to surround herself with the friends she needs.
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Darkly by Marisha Pessl (11/26)
Students across the country are applying for an internship with the Louisiana Veda Foundation after an ad is released that questions “What would you kill for?” This is more than an opportunity for Arcadia “Dia” Gannon, who has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the late game designer. When Dia is chosen as an intern along with six other teens, they are immediately thrust into the world of Veda’s late designs and Dia begins to question who these other teens are and what they have to hide. More importantly, what’s the real story behind Veda’s mysterious death?
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