I'm staying on the dark side with my second nomination:
This Is Where It Ends (2016) by Marieke Nijkamp.
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun.
10:00 a.m.
The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.
10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.
10:03
The auditorium doors won't open.
10:05
Someone starts shooting.
Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.
A Buzzfeed Best YA of 2016
#1 Young Adult Debut of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Winter '15 Kids Indie Next List
Goodreads YA Best Books of the Month
Buzzfeed 5 YA Books You Should Be Reading This January
Bustle.com 18 of 2016's Most-Anticipated YA Novels
BookRiot 15 Books out in 2016 You Should Mark Down Now
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Young Adult Fiction
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Amazon U.S., $7.99
Kobo U.S., $8.69
Amazon Canada, CA $8.24
Kobo Canada CA $10.59
Amazon Australia, AU $8.85
Kobo Australia, AU $11.87
Amazon UK, £5.22
Kobo UK, £6.59
Also available as an audiobook. E-book can be borrowed through Overdrive, Hoopla, Freading, and Scribd. Scribd also has the audiobook.
ETA: I really wanted to nominate a book that deals with school shootings; my original choice was
A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic, because I'd read another of his books, but it's not available in Australia or the UK. I also considered
Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito and
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke;
Quicksand passed the availability test but is more of a courtroom drama and
The Life Before Her Eyes is only available as an audiobook in Australia and the UK.