16 must-read fantasy books like She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

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She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f…

"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could've been mine in another life. A different one, not necessarily better or worse."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

If you liked the fantasy plot in She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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2. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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3. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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4. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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5. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

6. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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7. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

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8. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Cover of She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

10. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

Cover of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn  Bayron

11. 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 Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • 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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12. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

13. This Delicious Death

By: Kayla Cottingham

3.59

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about … read more

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's This Delicious Death book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My shitty gay heart did a backflip in my chest"

-Kayla Cottingham, This Delicious Death

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14. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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15. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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16. Where Darkness Blooms

By: Andrea Hannah

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunf… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • 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

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18. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. 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 Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer

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