16 Top thriller books like The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

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The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M…

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1. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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2. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Chaos Theory book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more

Similar categories in Tracy Brown's Brooklyn book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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4. Their Vicious Games

By: Joelle Wellington

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's Their Vicious Games book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

5. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

6. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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7. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

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8. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany D. Jackson's The Weight of Blood book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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10. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. There's No Way I'd Die First

By: Lisa Springer

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Debut author Lisa Springer delivers a spine-tingling contemporary horror that follows a scary-movie… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Springer's There's No Way I'd Die First book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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13. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

14. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Cover of Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

15. Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Out of Body by Nia  Davenport

16. Out of Body

By: Nia Davenport

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of frien… read more

Similar categories in Nia Davenport's Out of Body book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

17. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis

18. The Dark Place

By: Britney S. Lewis

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You can only hide from your nightmares for so long. Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn't ask… read more

Similar categories in Britney S. Lewis's The Dark Place book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

19. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

20. 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 Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of This Town is on Fire by Pamela N. Harris

21. This Town is on Fire

By: Pamela N. Harris

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of  When You Look Like Us  comes a page-turning YA contemporar… read more

Similar categories in Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire book and Jumata Emill's The Black Queen

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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