20. Across the Universe

By Beth Revis (399 pp, ebook)

This is a generation ship book, my favorite and it starts out amazing. Such a gripping scene of Amy and her parents getting into cryo-sleep for a three century trip across the universe to terraform a new planet. As these stories go, she's awakened before arrival to find the ship in chaos. She is part of 100 sleepers who are secret from the main ship residents who are living a tightly controlled existence on this trip. This is a YA with a very light romantic element (? -- some might find a wee bit creepy.) I love the ideas but the more the book went on the weaker it became and the characters harder to relate to. But also, I'm not the best audience for YA.