"Serious Girls"
by Maxine Swann
An intense friendship between two 16-year-old girls at a boarding school stems from a shared curiosity about the adult world and how to become "people with style." The story follows Maya and Roe as they make the transition from school to the real world, chronicling their attempts to grow up and their efforts to avoid disintegration.

"Prodigy"
by Dave Kalstein
Set in the imagined world of 2036, Kalstein conceives of the world's most elite prep school, where students are screened at a young age and then put through 12 years of carefully designed education and developmental drugs. When graduates of the Standbury School start being murdered, school officials and a former valedictorian team up to solve the mystery before the school's reputation can be ruined.

"The Divine Economy of Salvation"
by Priscila Uppal
Sister Angela is living comfortably, having stifled certain memories of her time at St. X. School for Girls. However, her peace is shattered by an unmarked package containing a single candlestick that delivers a shocking reminder of a long-ago crime. Sister Angela finds herself facing her past as she searches for the source of the package.

"The Moth Diaries: A Novel"
by Rachel Klein
"To anyone who wonders whether it is possible to survive adolescence, this is as much as I can offer of reassurance." These first words in Klein's novel promise what it delivers: a fascinating, dark tale of obsession and fear told through the fictional pages of a young woman's journal.

"A Great and Terrible Beauty"
by Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle, after growing to the age of 16 in 19th-Century colonial India, finds herself shipped off to a proper English boarding school after her mother's death. She is lonely, riddled with guilt, and finds that other people are put off by her inclination toward uncomfortable premonitions. As she strives to find her place, she is tracked by a mysterious Indian man and challenged by her encounters with the school's most powerful students.