14 must-read fantasy books like Wilder Girls by Rory Power

If you liked the fantasy plot in Wilder Girls by Rory Power , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's We Are Okay book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

"I'm glad we didn't know better."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy
• queer

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• queer

"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• mystery
• fantasy
• fiction
• horror

"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)

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Bunny book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• mystery
• fantasy
• fiction
• horror

"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"

-Mona Awad, Bunny

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• 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

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lgbt
• young adult
• dystopia
• fiction
• horror
• science fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• 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

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• science fiction
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella Is Dead book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"People wear masks so that they can fit in and stay safe. Can you blame them?"

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"it feel like another part of me is being changed to fit someone else's vision of what is pretty."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other..."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

Similar categories in Rose Szabo's What Big Teeth book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy

"My younger self can't see it from here, but I can; how charity can be just another form of spite."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

"It is madness to love someone: there is no greater feeling of estrangement that the ways in which they are different from you."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

"Somewhere, two stories up, was my childhood bedroom, and maybe if I could make it in there, I would be transformed back into someone who belonged here."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• 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

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• 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

Similar categories in Rory Power's Wilder Girls book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• dystopia
• science fiction
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy
• queer

"I’m still bitter,"

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's complicated," She says at last. "Or maybe I just wish it was."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy

"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

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's This Delicious Death book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy
• queer

"My shitty gay heart did a backflip in my chest"

-Kayla Cottingham, This Delicious Death

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's House of Hollow book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy

"What if we were the monsters?"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She moved through the world like no other woman I knew."

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"What you don't understand is that I am the thing in the dark"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Rory Power's Wilder Girls

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• mystery
• queer

"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler