7 must-read horror books like Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

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Every Exquisite Thing

By: Laura Steven

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati…

"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

If you liked the horror plot in Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. What Monstrous Gods

By: Rosamund Hodge

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting t… read more

Similar categories in Rosamund Hodge's What Monstrous Gods book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"When we get there, I whisper silently to Ruven, don’t leave me. “Never,"

-Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

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 Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 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

Cover of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) by Hafsah Faizal

3. 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

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"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)

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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 Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1)

By: Elizabeth May

3.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone, this Imperial Russia-inspired romantasy launch… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth May's To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1) book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Girl, Goddess, Queen

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's Girl, Goddess, Queen book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

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7. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

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8. 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

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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

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9. The Gilded Crown (The Raven's Trade #1)

By: Marianne Gordon

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Witch’s Heart meets The Priory of the Orange Tree in this debut novel about a woman who can bri… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Gordon's The Gilded Crown (The Raven's Trade #1) book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Moonstone

By: Laura Purcell

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling go… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Moonstone book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

11. Every Exquisite Thing

By: Laura Steven

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more

Similar categories in Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

Cover of Compass and Blade by Rachel Greenlaw

12. Compass and Blade

By: Rachel Greenlaw

3.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This world of sea and storm runs deep with bargains and blood. On the remote isle of Rosevear, … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Greenlaw's Compass and Blade book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of A Taste of Darkness: 13 spooky stories to savour by Amy McCaw

13. A Taste of Darkness: 13 spooky stories to savour

By: Amy McCaw

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A chilling, thrilling collection of 13 haunting tales. Perfect for every YA reader! From superna… read more

Similar categories in Amy McCaw's A Taste of Darkness: 13 spooky stories to savour book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald

14. The End Crowns All

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, g… read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's The End Crowns All book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

15. 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 Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kolsch

16. Now, Conjurers

By: Freddie Kolsch

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

November 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of… read more

Similar categories in Freddie Kolsch's Now, Conjurers book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

17. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

18. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Dark and Drowning Tide book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

19. Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Lex Croucher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Beloved author Lex Croucher's second queer historical YA romance, with all the swoons, laughs, and … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Not for the Faint of Heart book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Lover Birds by Leanne Egan

20. Lover Birds

By: Leanne Egan

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

With an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance, and perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Becky Albe… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Egan's Lover Birds book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
Cover of The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson

21. The Library of Broken Worlds

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, epic tale of oppression and the cost of p… read more

Similar categories in Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Library of Broken Worlds book and Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt

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Rosamund Hodge

3.32

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Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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Hafsah Faizal

3.57

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Rosamund Hodge

3.32

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Lyra Selene

3.77

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Lucy Holland

3.76

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Saara El-Arifi

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