17 Top mystery books like No Beauties or Monsters by Tara Goedjen

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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…

If you liked the mystery plot in No Beauties or Monsters by Tara Goedjen , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Distance from Me to You

By: Marina Gessner

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Wild  meets  Endless Love  in this multilayered story of love, survival, and self-discovery. McK… read more

Similar categories in Marina Gessner's The Distance from Me to You book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • fiction
  • young adult
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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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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3. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

Cover of Fatal Fried Rice (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #7) by Vivien Chien

4. Fatal Fried Rice (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #7)

By: Vivien Chien

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio in Vivi… read more

Similar categories in Vivien Chien's Fatal Fried Rice (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #7) book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Revenge of Magic (The Revenge of Magic, #1) by James  Riley

5. The Revenge of Magic (The Revenge of Magic, #1)

By: James Riley

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

When long-dead magical creatures are discovered all around the world, each buried with a book of ma… read more

Similar categories in James Riley's The Revenge of Magic (The Revenge of Magic, #1) book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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6. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. What Lives in the Woods

By: Lindsay Currie

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the decrepit Woodmoor Manor…where something in the woods is always watching. From the au… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's What Lives in the Woods book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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8. This Golden State

By: Marit Weisenberg

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i… read more

Similar categories in Marit Weisenberg's This Golden State book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. 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

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The Restless Dark book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"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

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10. Hold Back the Tide

By: Melinda Salisbury

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother all those year… read more

Similar categories in Melinda Salisbury's Hold Back the Tide book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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11. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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12. Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us… read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's Very Bad People book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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14. Those We Drown

By: Amy Goldsmith

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An ocean-drenched, atmospheric horror debut! Liv's best friend disappears on their first night aboa… read more

Similar categories in Amy Goldsmith's Those We Drown book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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15. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

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16. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • suspense
  • 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

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17. What We Harvest

By: Ann Fraistat

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange d… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's What We Harvest book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • science fiction
"If rainbows could rot then so could stars."

-Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

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18. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • science fiction
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19. 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 Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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20. Into the Sunken City

By: Dinesh Thiru

3.68

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the days are long, the money is tight, and the rai… read more

Similar categories in Dinesh Thiru's Into the Sunken City book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"The bravest of us always admit to being scared."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

"You see all the ways people lie to you, but none of the ways they care."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

"I grab her hands and say the words I so desperately want to believe. “We’re gonna be okay, Thara. I promise you—we’re gonna be okay."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

Cover of Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) by Michelle Jabès Corpora

21. Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1)

By: Michelle Jabès Corpora

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Playmate, come and play with me..." A beloved classic reimagined with a dark twist. After he… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Jabès Corpora's Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) book and Tara Goedjen's No Beauties or Monsters

  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy

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