20 best-selling mystery books like When the Light Went Out by Bridget Morrissey

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When the Light Went Out

By: Bridget Morrissey

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Five years after the accidental shooting of Marley Bricket, her friends, who were there the day she…

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1. An Inquiry Into Love and Death

By: Simone St. James

3.90

Format: 368 pages, ebook

After her ghost-hunting uncle Toby dies, Oxford student Jillian must drive to the seaside village o… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's An Inquiry Into Love and Death book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery
  • fiction
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2. What You Left Behind

By: Jessica Verdi

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

It’s all Ryden’s fault. If he hadn’t gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped her chemo tr… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Verdi's What You Left Behind book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery --- It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn't blow it."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

"I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon. I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I’m not here anymore."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

"Why does everything have to suck so bad? Even when you think it's getting better, it's not. Life's building up suckiness, getting ready to hit you again, at the worst possible moment."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

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3. We All Looked Up

By: Tommy Wallach

3.52

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Before the asteroid we let ourselves be defined by labels: The athlete, the outcast, the slacker, … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Wallach's We All Looked Up book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's not the end of the world."

-Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

"Fiction described reality better than non-fiction."

-Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

"The world is full of unknown mysteries and vague resolutions."

-Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

"He was the kind of guy who had a unique facial expression dedicated to thinking."

-Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

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4. The Upside of Unrequited

By: Becky Albertalli

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love--she's lived through it twenty… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. Zac and Mia

By: A.J. Betts

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster.… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Betts's Zac and Mia book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

By: Lynn Weingarten

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfather's shed. They say it was suicide. But June … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Weingarten's Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Paper Butterflies

By: Lisa Heathfield

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

June's life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one--and a secret one. She is trap… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Heathfield's Paper Butterflies book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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8. To Catch a Killer (Erin Blake #1)

By: Sheryl Scarborough

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Erin Blake has one of those names. A name that, like Natalee Holloway or Elizabeth Smart, is inextr… read more

Similar categories in Sheryl Scarborough's To Catch a Killer (Erin Blake #1) book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

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

9. Holding Up the Universe

By: Jennifer Niven

4.07

Format: None pages,

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's… read more

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10. Every Last Word

By: Tamara Ireland Stone

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of… read more

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11. Mosquitoland

By: David Arnold

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my so… read more

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12. I Hope You're Listening

By: Tom Ryan

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Te… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"It's our story. We should tell it together"

-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening

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13. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. The Dare

By: Natasha Preston

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

I triple dog dare you . . . As senior year comes to an end, senior pranks are just beginning. It… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Dare book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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15. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

By: Laura Nowlin

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

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16. 14 Ways to Die

By: Vincent Ralph

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Jess's mother was murdered by the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims bu… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's 14 Ways to Die book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"In the middle of your grief, when it’s too raw for most people to handle, they disappear, slowly stepping back until you turn round one day and they’re gone."

-Vincent Ralph, 14 Ways to Die

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17. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. After the Fire

By: Will Hill

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade. Before, she lived insid… read more

Similar categories in Will Hill's After the Fire book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I think you can probably be a good vet without owning any animals."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"places are only places... people make them into more than they are."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"Love changes how you see everything. It blinds you, but in a good way."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"[...] nothing is ever only good and nothing is ever only bad. Everything is somewhere in the middle."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

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20. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gripping new psychological thriller from the author of Little Creeping Things—can a grieving girl… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I was gonna come back for you', I lied."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"No coffee? Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"This is going to be so much worse than that', I saw like an archvillian."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

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21. The Murder Game

By: Carrie Doyle

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What if your best friend and roommate killed a teacher at your prep school? Or what if he didn’t do… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Doyle's The Murder Game book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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22. Dear Evan Hansen

By: Val Emmich

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Eva… read more

Similar categories in Val Emmich's Dear Evan Hansen book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The me I am is not the me I was."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"It reminds me of that saying: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"There is nothing unrealistic about the love that one man feels for another"

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

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23. What She Found in the Woods

By: Josephine Angelini

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her.… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Angelini's What She Found in the Woods book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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24. Gone Too Far

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From Natalie D. Richards, the New York Times bestselling author of mystery books for teens, comes a… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Gone Too Far book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Malum Non Vide: See No Evil"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

"My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

"My phone buzzes and I fish it from my pocket, expecting Tacey or maybe my parents checking in to make sure I’m okay. But it’s an unfamiliar number. Do you blame yourself? I read the words once. Twice…"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

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25. Lock the Doors

By: Vincent Ralph

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Tom's family has moved into their dream home. But pretty soon he starts to notice that something is… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's Lock the Doors book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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26. Bonfire

By: Krysten Ritter

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Should you ever go back? It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away a… read more

Similar categories in Krysten Ritter's Bonfire book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"The past is just a story we tell."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Law school teaches you one thing above all: how to speak while saying absolutely nothing."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don't look none too pretty when they come up."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"My phone’s dead, and I have to find the microwave to read the time: 8:12. Only bad news comes this early."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

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27. Summer's Edge

By: Dana Mele

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

I Know What You Did Last Summer meets The Haunting of Hill House  in this atmospheric, eerie teen t… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mele's Summer's Edge book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of When the Light Went Out by Bridget Morrissey

28. When the Light Went Out

By: Bridget Morrissey

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Five years after the accidental shooting of Marley Bricket, her friends, who were there the day she… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

29. The Girl Who Knew Too Much

By: Tiffany Brooks

3.32

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You think it's a game? Think again. High school senior Riley Ozment is desperate to change her r… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Brooks's The Girl Who Knew Too Much book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Killing Code by Ellie Marney

30. The Killing Code

By: Ellie Marney

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for f… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Marney's The Killing Code book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I am the code you never broke, and I don't play by the rules."

-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code

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31. Scared Little Rabbits

By: A.V. Geiger

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

We stand in a tight cluster, high above the lake. One-by-one, we made our way up the narrow trail f… read more

Similar categories in A.V. Geiger's Scared Little Rabbits book and Bridget Morrissey's When the Light Went Out

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

27 Top fiction books like When the Light Went Out by Bridget Morrissey

Transform Your Habits

An Inquiry Into Love and Death

Simone St. James

3.90

Transform Your Habits

What You Left Behind

Jessica Verdi

3.80

Transform Your Habits

We All Looked Up

Tommy Wallach

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Upside of Unrequited

Becky Albertalli

3.95

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21 best-selling fiction books like Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield

Transform Your Habits

A World Without You

Beth Revis

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Dare Game

Jacqueline Wilson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Beautiful Broken Things

Sara Barnard

4.09

SweetFreak

Sophie McKenzie

4.06

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