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…
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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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
- 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
2. A Lesson in Vengeance
By: Victoria Lee
3.55
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
"Just so,"-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance
"For coffee-stained girls in libraries."-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance
"The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it."-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance
"The poems circle the same question: how one’s soul could possibly endure when life’s beauty vanishes from reach."-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance
3. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
- 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
4. Where Echoes Die
By: Courtney Gould
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigativ… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
"I want to feel like I can keep going. Like I know how. I don't want to be afraid to look forward and lose everything behind me."-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"...that pain isn't universal. It's just a part of living in Backravel, tethered to the same chunk of time forever with no escape. At one point, Beck thought it sounded perfect. Now, it sounds like a …"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"For the first time it occurs to Beck that the people of Backravel might not be recognizing her, but her similarities to her mother. An ache pangs deep in Beck's chest, and she wants to press for more…"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"She can't help picturing what her morning would look like today in a world where [her mother] never died. [...] She didn't like details then because details made time slow down. Lingering in the same…"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
5. The Society For Soulless Girls
By: Laura Steven
3.63
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny YA thriller with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Prin… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
"Also I was nineteen, and therefore immortal."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"She was almost insultingly beautiful, albeit in a satanic sort of way."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
6. The Wicked Unseen
By: Gigi Griffis
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there's a secret Sata… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
"If I had the Taser, Truck Nuts would be Electric Nuts"-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen
"Fantasma. She didn't alert. That probably means it's animal blood. Or fake, maybe. ENGLISH! Get fucked. How's that?"-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen
7. The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)
By: Laura Pohl
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Four friends, one murder, and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed ... After the mysteriou… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- mystery
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- fantasy
- queer
"sometimes people are evil or French and can't be redeemed"-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)
"yuki laughed, because it was the natural response. everyone assumed it was easier, that she wouldn't have to navigate the difficulties of love. even her friends thought that, but it only came back to…"-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)
8. Burn Down, Rise Up
By: Vincent Tirado
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
9. 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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- 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
10. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- horror
- mystery
- paranormal
- queer
11. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- 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
12. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
13. The Narrow
By: Kate Alice Marshall
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A deliciously terrifying novel about a ghost who uncovers a teen girl's best kept secrets while hau… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- paranormal
- queer
14. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- 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
15. 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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
16. The Last Girls Standing
By: Jennifer Dugan
3.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do, perfect for fans of One o… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
17. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
18. 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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
19. 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
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- lesbian
- 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
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
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- lesbian
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- young adult
- horror
- mystery
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- paranormal
- queer
21. The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2)
By: Laura Pohl
3.79
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the gi… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
