14 must-read mystery books like The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

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The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

1. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"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

Cover of The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

2. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • 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 Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

3. Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Cerilli delivers a stunning debut in this gripping paranormal horror novel about queer teens growi… read more

Similar categories in Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

4. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

5. The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer

6. There's No Way I'd Die First

By: Lisa Springer

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Debut author Lisa Springer delivers a spine-tingling contemporary horror that follows a scary-movie… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Springer's There's No Way I'd Die First book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

7. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • 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

Cover of Icarus by K. Ancrum

8. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

9. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Beholder by Ryan La Sala

10. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's Beholder book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

Cover of All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

11. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • 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

Cover of Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

12. Off With Their Heads

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.50

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling a… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Off With Their Heads book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

13. 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 Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

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

Cover of Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

14. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

Cover of Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam  Sass

15. Your Lonely Nights Are Over

By: Adam Sass

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friend… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Your Lonely Nights Are Over book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games, #1) by Kristen Simmons

16. Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games, #1)

By: Kristen Simmons

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout novel for young adult readers, Jumanji but Japanese-inspired, … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Simmons's Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games, #1) book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Saint Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo

17. Saint Juniper's Folly

By: Alex Crespo

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Cemetery Boys meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in this spellbinding debut! Alex Crespo’s queer haunt… read more

Similar categories in Alex Crespo's Saint Juniper's Folly book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge by Matthew  Hubbard

18. The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

By: Matthew Hubbard

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A queer coming-of-age about three teenage boys in small town Alabama who set out to get revenge on … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hubbard's The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The best revenge is believing in yourself."

-Matthew Hubbard, The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

Cover of Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) by H.E. Edgmon

19. Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Mari… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter

20. By Any Other Name

By: Erin Cotter

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher… read more

Similar categories in Erin Cotter's By Any Other Name book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
Cover of Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore

21. Flawless Girls

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionabl… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Flawless Girls book and Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due

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

19 Best fiction books like The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

4.52

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Lockjaw

Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

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What Stalks Among Us

Sarah Hollowell

3.97

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19 must-read fiction books like Icarus by K. Ancrum

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The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

Nora Sakavic

4.59

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Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

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