Billionaire video game inventor James Halliday died leaving his vast fortune to whoever finds the Easter egg hidden in the OASIS, the virtual world he created. But it’s been five years, and no one has been able to get past the first riddle. Enter our not-so-super hero Wade Watts. A poor orphan, Wade spends his days inside OASIS studying Halliday’s life and obsession—everything ’80s. When Wade becomes the first person to unravel Halliday’s first riddle and pass the first of three gates leading to the ultimate Easter egg, his life changes. Suddenly, he finds himself running to stay one step ahead of the girl he has a cyber-crush on, his best friend and a group of gamers who’ll stop at nothing to find the egg and gain control of Halliday’s company. In the end, Wade just might turn out to be a superhero after all!

As a child Lydia Gladwell hid under the sink while the murderer who came to be known as the Hammerman brutally murdered three other people. As an adult Lydia Smith hides in plain sight as a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore. However, when one of her favorite “BookFrogs,” Joey, hangs himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia discovers a picture of her 10-year-old self in his pocket, and realizes that changing her name cannot change her past. Being bequeathed his bleongings, she strives to untangle the mystery of Joey’s suicide, unearthing long buried memories and forcing her to face the truth about that dreadful night and the identity of the Hammerman.

Having just completed a job in Syria, retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot is looking forward to a little R&R in Stamboul. However, when he reaches his hotel, he is greeted with a message calling him back to London, and he must leave right away.  He finds passage on the Orient Express, where he is pressed into service when the train gets stuck in a snowbank the same night a murder takes place aboard the train. With everyone providing alibis for everyone else and eyewitness reports of the extra purser and the mysterious woman in the scarlet kimono, will the killer actually be able to get away with murder?

Auggie Pullman is a smart, funny 10-year-old boy who happens to have a rare medical facial deformity and is about to start attending a mainstream school for the first time. Though he wants nothing more than to be treated normally, his classmates have trouble seeing past his extraordinary face.  Told from different point of view throughout the book, Wonder, by R.J. Palacio pulls at your heart-strings as you learn not only about the struggles Auggie faces because of his deformity, but also how it affects his family and his new friends.  Everyone will love this thought-provoking, memorable story of courage and kindness.

At the start of the summer in 1969, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd is struggling to find her place in the world after her parents’ divorce, and deal with her feelings of abandonment as her parents redefine themselves.  Then, she sees a group of girls walking through the park and is struck by the air of freedom and reckless abandon that surrounds them.  Mesmerized by one of the girls, Evie soon finds herself inducted into the cult of the charismatic, egomaniac Russell, and the imprisioning freedom of sex, drugs and corruption that leads to one violent night, changing all of their lives forever.  This debut novel by Emma Cline is a brilliant and beautifully written story about a horrific subject.