Books like Noughts & Crosses
In a world where Black Crosses rule and white noughts are the underclass, Sephy, daughter of a Cross politician, and Callum, the nought son of her mother's former maid, have been friends since childhood.
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The Winner's Curse
Kestrel, the daughter of a conquering general who would rather play music than fight, impulsively buys a young slave named Arin at auction, and the price of that choice grows as she discovers what he is hiding.
We Set the Dark on Fire
On the island of Medio, divided by a wall, Daniela Vargas graduates top of a school that trains girls to be a powerful man's first wife, hiding that her papers are forged, until a resistance movement offers her a choice.
Red Moon
In an America where lycans are registered and drugged, a hijacking by lycan terrorists sets off a war, and a teenage girl who is secretly one of them has to run.
Heartless Hunter
In a republic that overthrew its witch queens and now hunts witches, the socialite Rune Winters is secretly the Crimson Moth who smuggles them to safety, and Gideon Sharpe, the soldier hunting the Moth, begins a courtship with her that both mean to use.
Home Fire
Isma, a British Muslim woman, is free at last to study in America after raising her twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, but Parvaiz has gone to follow the jihadi father he never knew.
Fireborne
In a city that overthrew its dragonriding aristocracy, Annie, a peasant girl, and Lee, an orphan of the old regime, have risen through the new dragonrider programme, and survivors of the old nobility come back with dragons of their own.
The Dragon Waiting
In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.
The Amulet of Samarkand
In a London ruled by magicians, Nathaniel, a young apprentice humiliated by the powerful Simon Lovelace, summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, and sends him to steal Lovelace's amulet.
Dread Nation
After the dead rose at Gettysburg and ended the Civil War, Jane McKeene, a Black girl trained at a combat school to protect white people from the shamblers, is sent to a town in Kansas.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.
Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.