LibraryAware Top Ten: Liars, Cheats, and Sweet Revenge

Teen Top Ten: Liars, Cheats, and Sweet Revenge

In Some Other Life
by Jessica Brody

Kennedy chose to pursue the boy of her dreams rather than attend an elite private school, but when she catches him cheating, she gets a glimpse of the not-so-perfect life she might have had.

Liar's Beach
by Katie Cotugno

When a suspicious accident occurs while staying at his roommate's massive beachfront home at the end of the summer, Linden teams up with his childhood friend, Holiday Proctor, who is convinced there's a potential killer on Martha's Vineyard, to find the truth.

The Lying Woods
by Ashley Elston

Discovering that his father has run away after embezzling millions from their small Louisiana community, a once-wealthy boy searches for answers while completing his final year of school surrounded by resentful locals, including one who makes alarming threats.

Never Ever Getting Back Together
by Sophie Gonzales

Eighteen-year-old Maya Bailey enters a reality dating competition to get revenge on her cheating, royal-adjacent ex-boyfriend, and she ends up falling for another girl on the show--in fact, the girl he cheated on her with.

Nine Liars
by Maureen Johnson

While studying abroad, intrepid sleuth Stevie Bell is introduced to an unsolved double-murder cold case involving nine friends from Cambridge University and soon discovers the killer hasn't finished what was started back in 1995.

Pretty Furious
by E. K. Johnston

Five high school friends who've experienced the worst abuse, bullying, and gaslighting their small town of Eganston, Ontario, has to offer, put their survival tactics to good use as they plot their revenge.

These Vengeful Hearts
by Katherine Laurin

A 16-year-old student at a high school that is ruled by an anonymous clique that doles out social favors and ruin seeks revenge against the group's anonymous members for their role in an accident that left her sister paralyzed.

The Luis Orgega Survival Club
by Sonora Reyes

Ariana Ruiz is an autistic girl who never talks and goes largely ignored by her peers. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Then Ari finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is. But in order to take Luis down, she'll have to come to terms with the truth of what he did to her that night--and risk everything to see justice done.

The Great Godden
by Meg Rosoff

In an eccentric, turreted vacation house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things that shouldn't be seen, while brothers and sisters, parents and theatrical older cousins fill the hot days with wine and tennis and sailing and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers, the sons of a fading film actress; irresistibly charming Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there is a serpent in this paradise, and the consequences will be devastating.

The Deceivers
by Kristen Simmons

Leaping at a chance to attend an elite school where her powers of persuasion are honed into sophisticated con-artist skills to be used against corrupt politicians, Brynn is given an assignment to manipulate a senator's son before discovering that her headmaster has dangerous secrets of his own.