17 Best young adult books like Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

Cover of Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t…

"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

If you liked the young adult plot in Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

1. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

2. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Have You Seen This Girl by Nita Tyndall

3. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

4. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

5. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker

6. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

7. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

8. Off With Their Heads

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.50

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling a… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Off With Their Heads book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

9. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
Cover of Girls Who Burn by M.K. Pagano

10. Girls Who Burn

By: M.K. Pagano

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A twisty, pulse-pounding enemies-to-lovers thriller full of secrets, privilege, and murder. The… read more

Similar categories in M.K. Pagano's Girls Who Burn book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

11. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

12. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

13. Two Sides to Every Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who retur… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's Two Sides to Every Murder book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
"Even strong people need to fall apart."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

"You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

Cover of Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare

14. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton

15. Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in L.S. Stratton's Do What Godmother Says book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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 Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • queer
Cover of The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

17. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

18. One Killer Problem

By: Justine Pucella Winans

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and thoroughly queer mystery thriller with a touch of camp, for fans of Kara Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's One Killer Problem book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky

19. So Witches We Became

By: Jill Baguchinsky

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more

Similar categories in Jill Baguchinsky's So Witches We Became book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of It's Only a Game by Kelsea Yu

20. It's Only a Game

By: Kelsea Yu

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this twisty, fast-paced YA thriller, a dangerous game becomes all too real when Marina and her f… read more

Similar categories in Kelsea Yu's It's Only a Game book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Trespass Against Us by Leon  Kemp

21. Trespass Against Us

By: Leon Kemp

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut … read more

Similar categories in Leon Kemp's Trespass Against Us book and Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • queer

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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

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The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall

3.64

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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One of Us Knows

Alyssa Cole

3.14

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Missing White Woman

Kellye Garrett

3.53

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Daughter of the Merciful Deep

Leslye Penelope

4.01

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Wanda M. Morris

3.90

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