If You Could See the Sun
by Ann Liang
★ Top 25 book of 2022 · #11 on Best Books of 2022
Alice Sun, a scholarship student at an elite Beijing boarding school, begins turning truly invisible. Desperate for money, she sells her classmates' secrets, but the jobs grow more dangerous and threaten her conscience and her safety.
Best for: Teen readers who enjoy contemporary stories with a supernatural twist and moral dilemmas
If You Could See the Sun is #11 on BookWard's Best Books of 2022, out of 61 2022 books that cleared our data bar.
What If You Could See the Sun is about
Alice Sun has spent her school years unnoticed. She is the only scholarship student at an elite international boarding school in Beijing, surrounded by the children of the country's wealthiest and most powerful families. Then she begins to vanish for real, slipping out of sight without meaning to. When her parents admit they can no longer cover her tuition, she sees an opening. Her classmates pay well for secrets, and a girl nobody can see is well placed to collect them.
The jobs start small, but they do not stay that way. Funny, tense and set in a world where money decides almost everything, this young adult novel adds a touch of the supernatural to a story about belonging, privilege and how far someone will bend to keep her place.
If You Could See the Sun on the Best Books of 2022
If You Could See the Sun came out in 2022. Of the 61 books first published in 2022 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #11 on our Best Books of 2022 list.
Why it made the list: 651 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4 out of 5 (13 ratings); 20 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2022 list
- The Ballad of Never After Stephanie Garber, #9
- Never Lie Freida McFadden, #10
- Corrupted Chaos Shain Rose, #12
- Lightlark Alex Aster, #13
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 613 want to read it, 20 are reading it now and 18 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 4 out of 5 from 13 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 80 | 55% |
| Reader love | 49 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 69 | 20% |
Questions about If You Could See the Sun
When was If You Could See the Sun published?
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang was first published in 2022.
Was If You Could See the Sun one of the best books of 2022?
If You Could See the Sun is #11 on BookWard's Best Books of 2022, out of 61 2022 books that cleared our data bar. 651 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4 out of 5 (13 ratings); 20 are reading it right now.
Why is If You Could See the Sun on the Best Books of 2022 list?
651 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4 out of 5 (13 ratings); 20 are reading it right now.
More of the best books of 2022
- I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy, #1
- King of Wrath Ana Huang, #2
- I Fell in Love with Hope Lancali, #3
- It Starts with Us Colleen Hoover, #4
- Things We Never Got over Lucy Score, #5
- Stellarlune Shannon Messenger, #6
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How we know
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