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1. Ursula Poznanski's debut novel was published in 2010 and went on to win the German Youth Literature Prize. In the book, a mysterious computer game (with a title that means "darkness" in Latin) is passed around at teenager Nick's school. When Nick gets his hands on a copy, he realizes that this is no ordinary game: it seems to know his every move, and soon his actions in the game start having repercussions in the real world. But quitting is not an option. What is the book called?
2. Poznasnki's sophomore book cemented her reputation for ingeniously plotted YA thrillers with twist endings. In this book, student Bastian lets himself be persuaded to join a group of people (including the girl he fancies) for a weekend in the woods to indulge in some live-action role playing. But things soon start getting sinister when people start disappearing and the game doesn't feel much like a game anymore. Which is the book? The Latin title means "age" (as in "generation" or "lifetime").
3. Dorian has lived on the streets for a while when he is recruited by a mysterious benefactor. Tasked with a series of mundane and seemingly meaningless jobs, he soon suspects that this is really about something else entirely. And he is not wrong: somehow, a new technology that delves into various levels of (augmented) reality is at the heart of all this. Which is the book? Your clue is already in the text.
4. 17-year-old Jona is super intelligent and has been accepted at an elite university. But his haughty, arrogant nature makes it hard for him to find friends. So Jona has taken to spying on people who might harm him: he has built a sophisticated drone he sends out every night to stay on top of things. When strange things start to happen, Jona suspects that perhaps he unwittingly saw something he shouldn't have ... The book title is the name of the drone, aptly named after a certain bird of prey (a genus of small kite). What is it?
5. This book is set in Siena, Italy, where exchange student Nika is spending the semester. One morning she wakes in her apartment to find her roommate gone, her phone and keys disappeared, her laptop battery drained and the charger gone, a man's bloodstained shirt in the washing, and her memory of the last three days erased, as she find out when she turns on the TV. Her only clue is a note in her own handwriting with a series of cryptic clues. Nika sets out to unriddle the clues and recover her lost memory, but piecing it together soon reveals that something really bad must have happened. The title references one of the districts of the city of Siena, which are all named after animals (in Italian, obviously). Which is it?
6. Named after a part of the human brain, this riveting novel follows Timo, who suffers a traumatic brain injury after an accident and is sent to a rehabilitation center. Unable to communicate at first, he soon witnesses strange occurrences: his comatose roommate gets up one night, walking around and talking; and soon Timo himself discovers that he can do things he shouldn't be able to do. A medical thriller that hovers on the edge of sci-fi, which is the book?
7. Set in a dystopian future, this book is all about virtual worlds, where people spend their time learning and studying, socializing, and consuming entertainment. Main character Jana is a world builder: she designs those worlds. But then a murder is committed in her favorite world, and Jana starts to investigate. What she finds out is not good at all. Which is the title, which implies mystery, clues to be solved, and things not easily understood?
8. Published in 2021 when conspiracy theories were rampant on the internet, this book examines exactly that: three students devise an elaborate social media hoax with the goal to study how it is received and how it develops. But their campaign soon starts spreading out of control and amasses followers and believers. Faced with the fact that their own creation is starting to turn against them, Ben and his friends are missing the one thing that is referenced in the English-language title. Which is it?
9. Ever since he was a child, Julian has been seeing strange shadows and other visual phenomena on certain people: foggy eyes, shadows obscuring body parts, disfigurements. This has led to some strange behavior that his peers never understood. By the time he starts university, he believes all that behind him, but then something happens that makes him realize these visions may have been premonitions of things to come. And when he goes off his meds, they begin again... Based on this summary, take an educated guess which title it might be.
10. Philipp and Tessa are two of a hundred recruits who are competing in a battle-royale style field test of a novel lie detector. The device can sense even the most harmless lie, and lie is what the recruits absolutely cannot do if they want to win five million euros. But the contestants didn't expect the toll it would take if you're not allowed to tell the slightest untruth, and soon some other things won't add up ... The title is a portmanteau word that combines a technical process and the quality of telling the truth. Which is it?
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