The Passage Justin Cronin
Amy was abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then
imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of
apocalyptic proportions. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong,
Amy is able to escape, but society is collapsing. As Amy walks alone,
across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair,
she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she
has the power to save the ruined world.
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New
Zealand goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense
gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series
of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to
end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home
of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a complex
and exquisitely patterned network of fates and fortunes.
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead
St. Vladimir’s Academy: a hidden place where vampires are educated
away from human society. Rose Hathaway is a bodyguard for her best
friend Lissa, a Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now
they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s- the very place where they’re
most in danger. As Rose and Lissa become tangled in forbidden romances
and the Academy’s ruthless social scene, they must be careful of the
most dangerous vampires, the Strigoi, who want Lissa’s blood.
Divergent Veronica Roth
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five
factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue. When the
day comes for Beatrice to choose her faction, she faces the decision of
staying with her family or being who she really is. Not only does
Beatrice’s have to deal with the brutality and competitiveness of faction
initiation, but she is also guarding a secret. One that could prove deadly
to her and others around her.
Feed M.T. Anderson
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon
- a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid lowgrav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused
all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around
with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met
Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the Feed
and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.