29 Best fantasy books like The Book of Living Secrets by Madeleine Roux

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The Book of Living Secrets

By: Madeleine Roux

3.18

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood, this genre-bending page-turner from New York Times bestselling …

"The end is still unwritten. Let's hope it's a happy one."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

"The end is still unwritten. Let's hope it's a happy one."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

"The end is still unwritten. Let's hope it's a happy one."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

"Don't forget us," he replied, her blood staining the white linen covering his heart. "But live. Live and live, and we will do the same."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Book of Living Secrets by Madeleine Roux , here is a list of 29 books like this:

Cover of El desierto de hielo (La Guerra de las Brujas, #2) by Maite Carranza, César Farrés

1. El desierto de hielo (La Guerra de las Brujas, #2)

By: Maite Carranza , César Farrés

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

La profecía se ha cumplido y los clanes de brujas Omar esperan que Anaid, la elegida del cabello de… read more

Similar categories in Maite Carranza's El desierto de hielo (La Guerra de las Brujas, #2) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
Cover of La maldición de Odi (La Guerra de las Brujas, #3) by Maite Carranza

2. La maldición de Odi (La Guerra de las Brujas, #3)

By: Maite Carranza

3.72

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

La guerra de las brujas está próxima y la elegida no puede posponer más el momento de empuñar el ce… read more

Similar categories in Maite Carranza's La maldición de Odi (La Guerra de las Brujas, #3) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

3. The Fall

By: Bethany Griffin

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

Madeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding.… read more

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4. House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

By: Erin A. Craig

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Library Binding

A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Besides, what else am I meant to be doing? I didn't laze around in life and I certainly wasn't going to start in death."

-Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

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5. The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

By: Susan Dennard

3.68

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and t… read more

Similar categories in Susan Dennard's The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You either trust the forest or you don't, Winnie."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

"But our minds are pretty good at hiding what we don’t want to see, Winnebago."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

"That’s why we’re called the Luminaries, Winnie: we are lanterns the forest can never snuff out."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

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6. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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7. The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

By: Laura Pohl

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Four friends, one murder, and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed ... After the mysteriou… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pohl's The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"sometimes people are evil or French and can't be redeemed"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

"yuki laughed, because it was the natural response. everyone assumed it was easier, that she wouldn't have to navigate the difficulties of love. even her friends thought that, but it only came back to…"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

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8. Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

By: Adalyn Grace

4.00

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  All the Stars and Teeth  brings to life a highly romant… read more

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Perhaps,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"Careful,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"But death did not need to be seen; he was to be felt."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"With him, Signa no longer wanted to wonder. She wanted to know."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

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9. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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10. Dark and Shallow Lies

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.95

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surfa… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's Dark and Shallow Lies book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"There's magic in you, Grey"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Seems like, every time I'm with Zale, I come away just a little bit healed."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Because even when the secrets we hide in our pockets aren't our own, the weight of them can still be enough to drown us"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"And I know for sure then that what I told Evie was true. Hart isn't in love with me. Not like Evie meant. Need isn't love. Loneliness isn't love. And pain isn't love. Even if it's shared."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

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11. Our Crooked Hearts

By: Melissa Albert

3.75

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is Our Crooked Hearts, a contemporary fanta… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's Our Crooked Hearts book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Magic was a thing with teeth and a history as old as the world."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"The memories blossomed and withered, and now they belonged only to me."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"Rage and time were the only currencies left to her, and she used them."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"The air shimmered with the ghosts of our younger selves, our secrets, our heads side by side on the wooden floor."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

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12. Hotel Magnifique

By: Emily J. Taylor

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set again… read more

Similar categories in Emily J. Taylor's Hotel Magnifique book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're not nothing to me," he said, almost to himself. "That's precisely the problem."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

"Produce an invitation and I'll eat that ruffled atrocity of a hat." "Then get a fork and give me five minutes."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

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13. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
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14. A Forgery of Roses

By: Jessica S. Olson

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for. She’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s r… read more

Similar categories in Jessica S. Olson's A Forgery of Roses book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I was going to do some more work when I got home, but…"

-Jessica S. Olson, A Forgery of Roses

"A love for books is the best indicator of a curious mind."

-Jessica S. Olson, A Forgery of Roses

"Lucy grimaces at me. “I ran into Marie and Beth while we were out."

-Jessica S. Olson, A Forgery of Roses

"Art holds magic. It captures how it feels to be alive, with all its aches and sorrows and joy."

-Jessica S. Olson, A Forgery of Roses

Cover of The Book of Living Secrets by Madeleine Roux

15. The Book of Living Secrets

By: Madeleine Roux

3.18

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood, this genre-bending page-turner from New York Times bestselling … read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"The end is still unwritten. Let's hope it's a happy one."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

"Don't forget us," he replied, her blood staining the white linen covering his heart. "But live. Live and live, and we will do the same."

-Madeleine Roux, The Book of Living Secrets

Cover of The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2) by Melissa Albert

16. The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

By: Melissa Albert

3.71

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A book is always a door."

-Melissa Albert, The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

"Love rose up like a noose and circled my throat."

-Melissa Albert, The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

"Are all these books doors?' 'A book is always a door."

-Melissa Albert, The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

"If you touch me in anger again, I will fucking touch you back."

-Melissa Albert, The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

Cover of The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

17. The Drowned Woods

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

3.87

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Me… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Drowned Woods book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

Cover of A Reckless Oath (Heartless Fates, #2) by Kaylie Smith

19. A Reckless Oath (Heartless Fates, #2)

By: Kaylie Smith

3.98

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In this sequel to the spellbinding A Ruinous Fate, more action, romance, and magic abound as Calla … read more

Similar categories in Kaylie Smith's A Reckless Oath (Heartless Fates, #2) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gallant by Victoria Schwab

20. Gallant

By: Victoria Schwab

3.71

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place wh… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Schwab's Gallant book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Home is a choice."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Every house has secrets"

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Ash holds its shape until you touch it."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Rain drums its fingers on the garden shed."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

Cover of The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

21. 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 Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • 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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22. Ever Cursed

By: Corey Ann Haydu

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Damsel meets A Heart in a Body in the World in this incisive and lyrical feminist fairy tale about … read more

Similar categories in Corey Ann Haydu's Ever Cursed book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We're goddamn witches. Don't tell us we can't."

-Corey Ann Haydu, Ever Cursed

Cover of Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

23. 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 Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier

24. Starlings

By: Amanda Linsmeier

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. In the wake of her fa… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Linsmeier's Starlings book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...why would you hurt me so much?" "Because you still have fight in you. I want you broken."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

"We are two blackbirds, connected by the wings. She's the only one I have left, the only one who can light up the dark and chase my nightmares away."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

"I push away the questions. I don't look for frightening things anymore. Except somewhere, in the deepest recesses of my bones, I feel like they still look for me."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

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25. Not Good for Maidens

By: Tori Bovalino

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Salem’s Lot meets The Darkest Part of the Forest in this horror-fantasy retelling of Christina Ross… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's Not Good for Maidens book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Lou felt like she'd fallen headfirst into the rabbit hole, if that rabbit hole was also a thrift store run by two bunnies on ecstasy."

-Tori Bovalino, Not Good for Maidens

"It had taken her a while to figure it out, skirting around the Queer Club at school and going to virtual talks with Neela and in-person events with May, but once she tried the ace label on, she felt …"

-Tori Bovalino, Not Good for Maidens

Cover of What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

26. What We Harvest

By: Ann Fraistat

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange d… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's What We Harvest book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"If rainbows could rot then so could stars."

-Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

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27. Extasia

By: Claire Legrand

3.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Extasia book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

28. Dead Flip

By: Sara Farizan

3.47

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this “terrifyingly fun” ( New York Times ) horror comedy two friends must solve the mystery of t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Farizan's Dead Flip book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of A Harvest of Ash and Blood (Ashes of Eormun, #1) by D.J. Molles

29. A Harvest of Ash and Blood (Ashes of Eormun, #1)

By: D.J. Molles

4.11

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author D. J. Molles comes a brand new, action-packed, fantasy adven… read more

Similar categories in D.J. Molles's A Harvest of Ash and Blood (Ashes of Eormun, #1) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2) by Laura Pohl

30. The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2)

By: Laura Pohl

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the gi… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pohl's The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2) book and Madeleine Roux's The Book of Living Secrets

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt

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