Puzzles & Games: Teen Fiction

Updated April 24, 2025
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Lightlark
Aster, Alex
Paper Book
An instant #1 national bestseller--soon to be a major motion picture. #BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel Welcome to the Centennial.
The grandest game
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
Paper Book
Get ready for a new series that brings readers deeper into the lush, romantic, and puzzle-filled world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series (over 5 million copies sold!), set a year after we last saw Avery and the Hawthornes. Seven tickets. An island of...
The Selection
Cass, Kiera.
Paper Book
Fall in love--from the very beginning. Discover the first book in the captivating, #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. Prepare to be swept into a world of breathless fairy-tale romance, swoonworthy characters, glittering gowns, and fierce intrigue perfect for readers who loved...
The beauty trials
Clayton, Dhonielle
Paper Book
In this all-new novel from the world of Dhonielle Clayton's sweeping, lush Belles series, rebellious, outspoken, fan-favorite Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials--a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orléans. Sophia, the dangerous and erratic former queen, has been...
The grimoire of grave fates
Hanna Alkaf
Paper Book
Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party. ...
Unearthed
Kaufman, Amie
Paper Book
From the New York Times best-selling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner comes a "literally breathtaking" new sci-fi series about a death-defying mission on an alien planet. When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution...
Liar's test
Kwaymullina, Ambelin
Paper Book
A gripping YA fantasy with a deadly contest to win a crown, a fierce heroine determined to right the wrongs done to her people, and a smoldering love story that could change everything... I didn't want to rule the Risen. Wreak a little havoc upon them, though? That was...
Retro
Lapuente, Sofi?a
Paper Book
What starts off as a lighthearted competition to live without modern technology for a year turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York Times bestselling author Jarrod Shusterman and debut author Sofía Lapuente. It was never meant...
Thieves' gambit
Lewis, Kayvion
Paper Book
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life. At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is...
Thin air
Parker, Kellie M.
Paper Book
Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman. Seventeen-year-old...
This lie will kill you
Pitcher, Chelsea
Paper Book
"Will keep readers on edge from start to finish." --Kirkus Reviews Tell the truth. Or face the consequences. Clue meets Riverdale in this page-turning thriller that exposes the lies five teens tell about a deadly night one year ago....
Their vicious games
Wellington, Joelle
Paper Book
"A brutally honest and haunting cautionary tale...exposing the lie that is meritocracy and the unrelenting toll that being a final girl takes. A bloody tale spun masterfully...a dark delight." --Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, New York Times bestselling author of Ace of Spades

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