14 Best thriller books like The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney

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The Memory Eater

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of g…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Under This Red Rock book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • 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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3. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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4. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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7. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Claire Forrest's Where You See Yourself book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Memory Eater

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of g… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. The Restless Dark

By: Erica Waters

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The Restless Dark book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to …"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commi…"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

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12. The Shadow Sister

By: Lily Meade

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help f… read more

Similar categories in Lily Meade's The Shadow Sister book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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14. 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 Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • horror
  • thriller
  • 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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15. You Don't Have a Shot

By: Racquel Marie

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Dr… read more

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's You Don't Have a Shot book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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16. Before the Devil Knows You're Here

By: Autumn Krause

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tale… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

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17. Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thril… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Harvest House book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House

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18. A Guide to the Dark

By: Meriam Metoui

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave. The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCo… read more

Similar categories in Meriam Metoui's A Guide to the Dark book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. My Flawless Life

By: Yvonne Woon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A narrator grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. … read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Woon's My Flawless Life book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. For Lamb

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful histori… read more

Similar categories in Lesa Cline-Ransome's For Lamb book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater

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

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Mindy McGinnis

3.94

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4.11

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Ann Zhao

4.01

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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall

3.64

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3.59

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