9 must-read fantasy books like Hive (Hive #1) by A.J. Betts

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Hive (Hive #1)

By: A.J. Betts

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and fo…

"There was nothing beautiful to go to after life. There was nothing."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

"There was nothing beautiful to go to after life. There was nothing."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

"Within me, the truth unfurled, opening as a flower. I breathed as if for the first time."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

"Within me, the truth unfurled, opening as a flower. I breathed as if for the first time."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

If you liked the fantasy plot in Hive (Hive #1) by A.J. Betts , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Pieces of Sky

By: Trinity Doyle

3.91

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Lucy's life was going as smoothly as any teenager's could. She was in the local swimming club, and … read more

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  • young adult
"I am a bluebottle. I can sting like a bitch."

-Trinity Doyle, Pieces of Sky

"I'm not his sister anymore, I say and regret it as soon as I do."

-Trinity Doyle, Pieces of Sky

"I've found a connection in his music I've never felt before, and it keeps stabbing me in the heart."

-Trinity Doyle, Pieces of Sky

"His ghost burned into my memory. But now he has started to fade and the hole his absence created is swallowing me up all over again."

-Trinity Doyle, Pieces of Sky

Cover of Once (Once, #1) by Morris Gleitzman

2. Once (Once, #1)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more

Similar categories in Morris Gleitzman's Once (Once, #1) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult

3. Whisper

By: Lynette Noni

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

For two and a half years, Subject 684 -- "Jane Doe" -- has been locked underground in a secret gove… read more

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4. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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5. Draekora

By: Lynette Noni

3.50

Format: None pages,

"I swear by the stars that you and the others slain tonight will be the first of many. Of that you … read more

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6. Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort, #1)

By: Lauren Child

4.45

Format: None pages,

Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen about the Ruby Redfort books. Now in h… read more

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7. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)

By: John Marsden

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… read more

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8. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

By: Josh Silver

4.04

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more

Similar categories in Josh Silver's HappyHead (HappyHead, #1) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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11. The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

By: Lynette Noni

4.45

Format: 464 pages, ebook

She’d failed them. All of them. And now she was paying the price. Kiva thought she knew what she… read more

Similar categories in Lynette Noni's The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I can't change the past. But I can still be annoyed by it"

-Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

"I can't change the past. But I can still be annoyed by it."

-Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

"If my heart didn't already belong to Jaren, I think I'd be in love with you."

-Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

"Jaren will always find me. He might wish he'd never met me, but he'll always protect me. He can't help it. He's too good. Too pure. None of us deserve him.. Especially me."

-Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

Cover of The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1) by C.G. Drews

12. The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)

By: C.G. Drews

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Can two broken boys find their perfect home? Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older b… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"He wishes they'd realise, though, that you can't fill the hole of a missing mother by carving each other into pieces."

-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)

"He's so empty. They tried to stitch him back together, but too much already fell out. Stars and buttons and caramel truffles."

-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)

"Well, I don't trust whoever killed this pot. Did they cook potatoes or souls of the damned?' ' Ah.' Moxie peers at the blackened base. 'That was me."

-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)

"Sammy.' He gasps for breath. 'I ran all the - way - over here - to rescue you -' He sucks in a ragged lungful of air. 'And you're just kissing - in the sunset? You little jerk."

-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)

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13. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Completely Normal (and other lies) by Biffy James

14. Completely Normal (and other lies)

By: Biffy James

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more

Similar categories in Biffy James's Completely Normal (and other lies) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

Cover of Hive (Hive #1) by A.J. Betts

15. Hive (Hive #1)

By: A.J. Betts

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and fo… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • womens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There was nothing beautiful to go to after life. There was nothing."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

"Within me, the truth unfurled, opening as a flower. I breathed as if for the first time."

-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)

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16. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

Similar categories in Gary Lonesborough's Ready When You Are book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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17. Everywhere, Everything, Everyone

By: Katy Warner

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A vivid, captivating contemporary YA novel about the power of resistance, from a stunning Australia… read more

Similar categories in Katy Warner's Everywhere, Everything, Everyone book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
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18. The Brink

By: Holden Sheppard

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high. A remote island on t… read more

Similar categories in Holden Sheppard's The Brink book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • mystery
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Flower Girls

By: Alice Clark-Platts

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

YOU'LL NEVER FORGET THE FLOWER GIRLS The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One convicted of… read more

Similar categories in Alice Clark-Platts's The Flower Girls book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker

By: Niall Harbison

4.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thai… read more

Similar categories in Niall Harbison's Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • audiobook
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21. The Branded (The Branded Season, #1)

By: Jo Riccioni

4.06

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Isfalk is divided into two classes: the Branded, who are vulnerable to disease, and the Pure, who a… read more

Similar categories in Jo Riccioni's The Branded (The Branded Season, #1) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Weapon (Whisper, #2)

By: Lynette Noni

4.20

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling WHISPER series concludes with WEAPON: I already knew he was a psychopath. But… read more

Similar categories in Lynette Noni's Weapon (Whisper, #2) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Maybe he's right Maybe I am a weapon But I'm not his weapon Not anymore"

-Lynette Noni, Weapon (Whisper, #2)

"I need to see him again. Because I have questions, and something tells me he has the answers."

-Lynette Noni, Weapon (Whisper, #2)

"I refuse to be the type of girl who waits for a prince to come riding in on a white horse to save the day."

-Lynette Noni, Weapon (Whisper, #2)

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23. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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24. Anything But Fine

By: Tobias Madden

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Madden's Anything But Fine book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"What is it about hot jocks being dorky that is so impossible to resist?"

-Tobias Madden, Anything But Fine

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25. The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

By: Davina Bell

3.31

Format: None pages, ebook

She said we didn’t know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on tha… read more

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  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What I see, what I see are the colours for love."

-Davina Bell, The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

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26. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Nossett's The Professor book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

Cover of The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1) by Amie Kaufman

27. The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)

By: Amie Kaufman

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner have crafted a gripping tale … read more

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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The floating market takes shape amid a flutter of torches and spellfire, each pinprick of light tailed by its glittering reflection in the river beneath."

-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)

"I don’t know if I believe prophecies. I don’t know if I believe in her gods or her destiny. I don’t know if I believe in any of this. But I believe in her."

-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)

"Even the most beautiful tree in the forest-sea cannot live forever. When it dies, it decomposes, returning its life to the earth, and clearing a space for the sun, and a hundred new plants spring up …"

-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)

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28. Lenny's Book of Everything

By: Karen Foxlee

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

I knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was sca… read more

Similar categories in Karen Foxlee's Lenny's Book of Everything book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"But now we knew. It was a good thing. All of Davey, in all his time upon the earth, was good."

-Karen Foxlee, Lenny's Book of Everything

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29. A Curse of Salt

By: Sarah Street

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

In a kingdom that fears the sea, Ria Lucroy longs to be brave. Bodies are washing ashore and eve… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Street's A Curse of Salt book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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30. How to Repaint a Life

By: Steven Herrick

3.92

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn’t plan on st… read more

Similar categories in Steven Herrick's How to Repaint a Life book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1) by Astrid Scholte

31. League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

By: Astrid Scholte

3.60

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fantasy thriller, four teens charged with murder and the illegal use of magic band together… read more

Similar categories in Astrid Scholte's League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1) book and A.J. Betts's Hive (Hive #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I'll find out the truth,' Leta whispered into the black. 'I promise, Mother."

-Astrid Scholte, League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

"Don't be one of those people who hates their life but doesn't have the courage to change it."

-Astrid Scholte, League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

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Transform Your Habits

Once (Once, #1)

Morris Gleitzman

3.63

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HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

Josh Silver

4.04

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Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Anita Heiss

4.17

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Tom Taylor

3.95

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Amy Doak

3.69

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4.14

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Tegan Bennett Daylight

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