14 must-read queer books like Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

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Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g…

"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

If you liked the queer plot in Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

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2. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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3. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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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4. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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

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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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • queer
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6. What Big Teeth

By: Rose Szabo

3.37

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to he… read more

Similar categories in Rose Szabo's What Big Teeth book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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

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7. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

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8. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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

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9. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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

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10. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

Cover of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

11. Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

Cover of House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

12. House of Hollow

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.03

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's House of Hollow book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"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

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13. My Dearest Darkest

By: Kayla Cottingham

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

WILDER GIRLS meets THE CRAFT in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: What price would you be willin… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's My Dearest Darkest book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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14. I'm the Girl

By: Courtney Summers

3.39

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The new groundbreaking queer thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar-award Winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's I'm the Girl book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

15. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

16. The River Has Teeth

By: Erica Waters

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Natasha’s sister is missing. Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The River Has Teeth book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Seemed like it was always the greed of men that undid a successful woman."

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

"There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men wh…"

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

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17. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"If rainbows could rot then so could stars."

-Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

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18. Throwaway Girls

By: Andrea Contos

3.62

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Caroline Lawson is three months away from freedom, otherwise known as graduation day. That's when s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. Bretzel Break

By: Maëlle Desard

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

- Je n'ose même pas jeter un regard vers le miroir. - Inutile, je peux te décrire si tu le souhait… read more

Similar categories in Maëlle Desard's Bretzel Break book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • young adult
Cover of A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui

20. 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 Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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21. And They Were Roommates

By: Page Powars

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two roommates. One secret. A lot of love letters. When Charlie joins Valentine Academy for Boys… read more

Similar categories in Page Powars's And They Were Roommates book and Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

16 best-selling fiction books like Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

Transform Your Habits

Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand

3.67

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The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould

3.94

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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The Honeys

Ryan La Sala

3.81

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20 Top fiction books like What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

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Claire Legrand

3.67

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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

3.89

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Andrew Joseph White

4.13

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