cara1's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever...

A thrillingly original dystopian murder mystery - think
The Hunger Games meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder!

A FUTURE QUEEN LIES MURDERED ...

Justice is merciless in the Hive, a monarchy of tomorrow, where
young bodyguard Feldspar awaits execution, guilty of being alive
when her charge is dead.

The girl has one defender - Niko, a royal maverick. Together
they have three days to prove the impossible.

Three days to question everything Feldspar knows about the
world that raised her and discover who the real murderer is
. . .



A thrillingly original YA murder mystery, set in a… show more.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LADY MACBETH AND A STUDY IN DROWNING

'There's one thing about Ava Reid; she doesn't miss.' Sasha Peyton Smith
'You'll start saving space on your shelf for Ava Reid.' Kendare Blake

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The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to… show more.