8 Top gothic books like Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

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Don't Tell a Soul

By: Kirsten Miller

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. …

"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

If you liked the gothic plot in Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

1. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"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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2. Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"Do you want to know where Lucy went? She went to play the game. You can play, too. Find a partner. Find a key. Find the road. You have two days."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

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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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

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

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4. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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5. Here Lies Olive

By: Kate Anderson

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the dark tourism capital of the United States, sixteen-year-old Olive should be comfo… read more

Similar categories in Kate Anderson's Here Lies Olive book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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6. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
"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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7. These Fleeting Shadows

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, ca… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's These Fleeting Shadows book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

8. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
Cover of Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

9. Don't Tell a Soul

By: Kirsten Miller

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. … read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

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10. Together We Rot

By: Skyla Arndt

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl looking for the truth about her missing mother forms a reluctant alliance with her form… read more

Similar categories in Skyla Arndt's Together We Rot book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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11. Ghost Wood Song

By: Erica Waters

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sawkill Girls meets Beautiful Creatures in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between re… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's Ghost Wood Song book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"I'm as restless as the ghosts today."

-Erica Waters, Ghost Wood Song

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12. Burden Falls

By: Kat Ellis

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Riverdale meets Stephen King in the terrifying new thriller from the author of Harrow Lake. The … read more

Similar categories in Kat Ellis's Burden Falls book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

13. The Girls Are Never Gone

By: Sarah Glenn Marsh

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Glenn Marsh's The Girls Are Never Gone book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
"I wonder whether Atheleen or Scarlett used to stay up late into the night, listening for the scrape of something unseen against their walls, or wake up breathless from nightmares about this place - t…"

-Sarah Glenn Marsh, The Girls Are Never Gone

Cover of All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

14. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"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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15. Wake the Bones

By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Kilcoyne's Wake the Bones book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • paranormal
Cover of The Underground Moon by Melissa K. Magner

16. The Underground Moon

By: Melissa K. Magner

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Summers in Tennessee are unfamiliar to fifteen-year-old Rosella Gill, who spent her life growing up… read more

Similar categories in Melissa K. Magner's The Underground Moon book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • mystery
  • young adult
  • horror
"Most of all, I think about how safe we'll be, and when the real moon comes out at night, we'll love it more than we've ever loved it before."

-Melissa K. Magner, The Underground Moon

"I descend into the darkness so quickly that it isn't until I see the glint of silver that I register where I am: in the belly of a beast who detests me."

-Melissa K. Magner, The Underground Moon

"I continue through the forest, all the way to the gazebo where Hettie and I once watched a show of a thousand-colored stingrays, where we once danced to lulling music, and where I finally realized it…"

-Melissa K. Magner, The Underground Moon

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17. 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 Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"...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

Cover of When All the Girls Are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault

18. When All the Girls Are Sleeping

By: Emily Arsenault

3.74

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For fans of People Like Us and The Cheerleaders comes an all new psychological suspense novel about… read more

Similar categories in Emily Arsenault's When All the Girls Are Sleeping book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of Director's Cut by Carlyn Greenwald

19. Director's Cut

By: Carlyn Greenwald

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but… read more

Similar categories in Carlyn Greenwald's Director's Cut book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

20. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller

14 Best fiction books like Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

Transform Your Habits

The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould

3.94

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Rules for Vanishing

Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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Horrid

Katrina Leno

3.56

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The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

3.64

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Claire Legrand

3.67

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