30 Books to Pick Up Before You Go on Vacation With Your Best Friends

Lauren Oliver has a knack for examining the bonds between her female characters while framing them within an endlessly interesting, tragic circumstance, and Vanishing Girls is no different. The novel follows sisters Dara and Nick, who were totally inseparable until an accident left Dara's face scarred and the pair estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick sets out to find her sister, and, in a way, herself.