At the B&N Reads blog Brian Boone tagged fifty of the most essential high school stories, including:
Dare Me, by Megan Abbott
Here’s a book that’s sympathetic to the cheerleaders and mean girls. Dare Me both humanizes and subverts the typical way cheerleaders are written in teen stories, in which they’re almost always the villains, ruling the school with fear and bullying. That seems to have worked just fine for varsity cheerleaders Addy and Beth in the past, until a new coach divides, conquers, and unites them again, even as the police get involved in some very bad, bad things.
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the other entries on the list.
Dare Me is among
Julie Buntin's twelve books that totally get female friendship,
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
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