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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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. Like the way she had, of acting like she and you were the last real people on earth. Then let's say she changed over night. Became elusive, Unpredictable. Treated your love like it was a cage Untill you hit your limit And canceled your constancy. Held your love in reserve. saw her for what she was, and let her know it too. What happens then? What becomes of her life? when your sick of saving it."-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones
"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. Like the way she had, of acting like she and you were the last real people on earth. Then let's say she changed over night. Became elusive, Unpredictable. Treated your love like it was a cage Untill you hit your limit And canceled your constancy. Held your love in reserve. saw her for what she was, and let her know it too. What happens then? What becomes of her life? when your sick of saving it."-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones
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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
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
2. The Familiar
By: Leigh Bardugo
3.84
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
3. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- paranormal
- audiobook
4. The Haunting of Velkwood
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.64
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- paranormal
- audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
5. The House That Horror Built
By: Christina Henry
3.22
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
6. 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
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- 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
7. Tender Beasts
By: Liselle Sambury
3.90
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
- audiobook
8. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
By: Hafsah Faizal
3.57
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- paranormal
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
9. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
10. One Last Breath
By: Ginny Myers Sain
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatur… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
11. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
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- gothic
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
12. Your Blood, My Bones
By: Kelly Andrew
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more
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- gothic
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
13. 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
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones
- gothic
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- supernatural
- 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
14. 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
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- gothic
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
- paranormal
15. 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
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- young adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
16. Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear
By: Robin Wasley
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse. High school is hard enough t… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- paranormal
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
17. A Place for Vanishing
By: Ann Fraistat
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more
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- gothic
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
- audiobook
18. Six of Sorrow
By: Amanda Linsmeier
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day—and now, on their birthday, one of them is m… read more
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- young adult
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
19. 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
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking
20. Death at Morning House
By: Maureen Johnson
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
21. So Witches We Became
By: Jill Baguchinsky
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
