9 Top fantasy books like Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

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Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Cerilli delivers a stunning debut in this gripping paranormal horror novel about queer teens growi…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.24

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2) book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"

-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

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2. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

Cover of Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

3. Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Cerilli delivers a stunning debut in this gripping paranormal horror novel about queer teens growi… read more

Similar categories in Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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7. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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10. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
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11. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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12. Flawless Girls

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionabl… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Flawless Girls book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Now, Conjurers

By: Freddie Kolsch

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

November 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of… read more

Similar categories in Freddie Kolsch's Now, Conjurers book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

16. Take All of Us

By: Natalie Leif

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A YA unbury-your-gays horror in which an undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Leif's Take All of Us book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. One Killer Problem

By: Justine Pucella Winans

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and thoroughly queer mystery thriller with a touch of camp, for fans of Kara Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's One Killer Problem book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. The House Where Death Lives

By: Alex Brown

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly ch… read more

Similar categories in Alex Brown's The House Where Death Lives book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. So Witches We Became

By: Jill Baguchinsky

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more

Similar categories in Jill Baguchinsky's So Witches We Became book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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