Here are some of our favorite Adult titles for teens! These titles can all be found in the Adult Fiction sections of the library, unless otherwise noted.
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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
After a leprosy diagnosis, the son of Chinese immigrants must leave 1950s Bronx to quarantine at a federal institution in Carville, where he experiences a new sense of freedom and takes refuge in music, love, and new friends.
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The Crane Husband
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them. Yet when her mother brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl must protect them all from this invasive creature whose demands could destroy everything—unless she changes the story.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna
Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. As she gets close to the House's residents, she must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for.
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The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.
This title can be found in the Nonfiction section of the library.
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What Have We Done
by Alex Finlay
The survivors of Savior House, an abusive group home for wayward teens, are forced to come together when someone one starts killing them one by one—a reunion none of them asked for or wanted, but one that may be the only way to save all their lives.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution, set to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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Spells For Forgetting
by Adrienne Young
Back on Saoirse Island, Emery Blackwood, in a place rooted in folklore and magic, finally learns the truth surrounding her best friend's murder when the love of Emery's life and the person accused of the crime returns, unearthing the past the town has tried desperately to forget.
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The Night She Disappeared : a novel
by Lisa Jewell
One year after a young woman and her boyfriend disappear on a massive country estate, a writer stumbles upon a mysterious note that could be the key to finding out what happened to the missing young couple.
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Never Saw Me Coming
by Vera Kurian
While taking part in an unusual clinical study that brings together some of the most dangerous minds, Chloe Sevre, a Freshman honor student—and diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135—goes from hunter to prey when one of the participants is murdered.
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A River Enchanted : a novel
by Rebecca Ross
Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years...But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence...The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. Adaira, heiress of the east and Jack's childhood enemy, knows the spirits only answer to a bard's music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls.
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
In 1862, Edward Radcliffe and a group of artists descend on Birchwood Manor for an artist's retreat, but the retreat ends in murder and theft, and over a century later a young archivist from London tries to discover the manor's secrets.
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Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire
In an alternate-reality world under the shadow of a magical government bent on transmuting the fabric of reality, two alchemical twins, one skilled with language and the other with math, become catalysts in their creator's grab for power.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
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TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.
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Lock Every Door : a novel
by Riley Sager
Taking an apartment-sitting job in a Manhattan apartment building housing the rich and famous, a young woman is drawn to a fellow apartment sitter who reveals that the building hides a dark history. By the best-selling author of Final Girls.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
A trilogy debut by the Nebula Award-winning author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse.
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Circe
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Madeline Miller
The daughter of Titans clashes with one of the most vengeful Olympians, forcing her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Michael Chabon
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams.
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The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. WilsonA young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology makes the astonishing discovery that a race of human-like machines has been hiding among people for untold centuries.
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All Systems Red by Martha WellsA team of scientists and their security android, who unbeknownst to the scientists has hacked its own governor module, must investigate a neighboring mission that has gone dark.
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