9 must-read thriller books like Jinx by Melissa K. Magner

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Jinx

By: Melissa K. Magner

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Things are quiet in the morning, especially in an unassuming town like Aledale. When sixteen-year-o…

"When the world was dark, those amber-emerald eyes filled the void, greeting Jan like an old friend - reminding her that they were part of her, and that they would be for years to come."

-Melissa K. Magner, Jinx

If you liked the thriller plot in Jinx by Melissa K. Magner , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #2) by Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson

1. The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #2)

By: Carolyn Keene , Mildred Benson

3.96

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Keene's The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #2) book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • young adult
"One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there."

-Carolyn Keene, The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #2)

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2. Guile

By: Constance Cooper

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In the Bad Bayous the water is thick with guile, a powerful substance that wreaks unpredictable cha… read more

Similar categories in Constance Cooper's Guile book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1) by James  Patterson

3. The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

By: James Patterson

4.07

Format: 445 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1) book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • urban fantasy
  • teen
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Yes!"

-James Patterson, The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

"It’s, like, a safety bomb."

-James Patterson, The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

"Well, that's an evil smile..."

-James Patterson, The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

"Excellent. They were flammable."

-James Patterson, The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

4. J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.36

Format: 524 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This four volume, deluxe paperback boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbita… read more

Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

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5. Small Favors

By: Erin A. Craig

4.03

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narro… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's Small Favors book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

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6. 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 Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"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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7. The Other Lola

By: Ripley Jones

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least? In the mo… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's The Other Lola book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • young adult
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8. Long Lost

By: Jacqueline West

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline West's Long Lost book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

9. Dark and Shallow Lies

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.95

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surfa… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's Dark and Shallow Lies book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"There's magic in you, Grey"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Seems like, every time I'm with Zale, I come away just a little bit healed."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Because even when the secrets we hide in our pockets aren't our own, the weight of them can still be enough to drown us"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"And I know for sure then that what I told Evie was true. Hart isn't in love with me. Not like Evie meant. Need isn't love. Loneliness isn't love. And pain isn't love. Even if it's shared."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

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10. 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 Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
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11. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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12. Strange Creatures

By: Phoebe North

3.93

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From the moment that Annie was born, she and her older brother, Jamie, were inseparable. Alike in a… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe North's Strange Creatures book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

13. The Drowned Woods

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

3.87

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Me… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Drowned Woods book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Secrets So Deep by Ginny Myers Sain

14. Secrets So Deep

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.70

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a darkly atmospheric paranormal thriller… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's Secrets So Deep book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

15. 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 Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • young adult
  • horror
"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

16. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • fantasy
  • horror
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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 Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"...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 Jinx by Melissa K. Magner

18. Jinx

By: Melissa K. Magner

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Things are quiet in the morning, especially in an unassuming town like Aledale. When sixteen-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Melissa K. Magner's Jinx book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • urban fantasy
  • dark fantasy
  • teen
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • young adult fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"When the world was dark, those amber-emerald eyes filled the void, greeting Jan like an old friend - reminding her that they were part of her, and that they would be for years to come."

-Melissa K. Magner, Jinx

Cover of No Beauties or Monsters by Tara Goedjen

19. No Beauties or Monsters

By: Tara Goedjen

3.64

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a girl whose family secrets are as threatening as the desert that surrounds her—but… read more

Similar categories in Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult
  • suspense
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens

20. Last Girl Breathing

By: Court Stevens

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, one teen girl must examine a tragic event… read more

Similar categories in Court Stevens's Last Girl Breathing book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • teen
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension by Rita Feinstein

21. Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension

By: Rita Feinstein

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s easy to believe in the apocalypse when you’re losing your religion. NASA has assured everyo… read more

Similar categories in Rita Feinstein's Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension book and Melissa K. Magner's Jinx

  • young adult

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