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Cliffhanger ending - Extreme Reader 2026

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2026 challenge! Additional Category Information: • Plot device in which a component of the story ends unresolved, usually in a suspenseful or shocking way

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  • Twisty, chilling, and intense, All Good People Here is a searing tale that asks: What are your neighbors really capable of when they think no one is watching?
    Book, 2022New York : Bantam, [2022] — F FLOWE-A
  • In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
    Book, 2019New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. — F JAMES-M
  • Dom, a grieving immortal, strives to fulfill a broken oath. Sorasa, an outcast assassin, faces her past when it returns with sharpened teeth. Valtik, an old sorceress, summons a mighty power. And Corayne, a pirate's daughter with an ancient magic in…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — YF AVEYA-V
  • Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the…
    Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — YF ADEYE-T
  • At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.
    Book, 2018Dallas, TX : Argyll Productions, 2018. — F KINGF-T
  • Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
    Book, 2016New York : Bloomsbury, 2016. — YF MAAS-S
  • One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes,…
    Book, 2016New York : Crown Publishers, [2016] — F CROUC-B
  • Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they…
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — F NOVIK-N
  • First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars - the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Skybound Books / Gallery Books, 2020. — SCI LEWIS-L
  • For the first time ever, the ruthless, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible--the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles, the gods name…
    Book, 2024Shrewsbury, PA : Red Tower Books/Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2024. — F OWEN-A
  • Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to…
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2019. — F MUIR-T
  • Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful…
    Book, 2022[New York] : Penguin Books, [2022] — F DAWSO-J
  • It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the entire…
    Book, 2017New York : Del Rey, 2017. — SCI SIMMO-D
  • Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, 2020. — F SCHWA-V
  • Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a…
    Book, 2021[New York, New York] : Orbit, 2021. — F SURI-T
  • After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — YF DEONN-T
  • Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.…
    Book, 2023New York : Atria Books, 2023. — F JEWEL-L
  • Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn't just a boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — YF LEN-V
  • Rin's shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.
    Book, 2018New York, N.Y. : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — F KUANG-R
  • Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.
    Book, 2021New York : Tor, [2021] — F PARKE-S