Megan Abbott's Dare Me is the magnetic story of what happens to Addy and Beth's friendship when the cheerleading squad they're used to running gets a new coach. Abbott understands girls — she gets their sweetness, their complexity, and their ability to be completely vicious.Read about the other entries on the list.
Dare Me is among L.S. Hilton's top ten female-fronted thrillers, Megan Reynolds's top ten books you must read if you loved Gone Girl, Anna Fitzpatrick's four top horror stories set in the real universe of girlhood and Adam Sternbergh's six notable crime novels that double as great literature.
--Marshal Zeringue