29 Best fiction books like A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2) by L.L. McKinney

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A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

By: L.L. McKinney

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates), Alice must abandon her fri…

If you liked the fiction plot in A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2) by L.L. McKinney , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Doppelgangster (Esther Diamond, #2)

By: Laura Resnick

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

A struggling actress, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York City from Evil, a sk… read more

Similar categories in Laura Resnick's Doppelgangster (Esther Diamond, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. The Rise of Io

By: Wesley Chu

4.50

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Ella Patel - thief, con-artist and smuggler - is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, o… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Chu's The Rise of Io book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

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3. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

Similar categories in Kamilah Cole's So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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4. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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5. 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 L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

6. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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8. Rust in the Root

By: Justina Ireland

4.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Rust in the Root book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

4.01

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's Daughter of the Merciful Deep book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1)

By: Nicole Glover

3.69

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Introducing Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now sol… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Glover's The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1)

By: Analeigh Sbrana

3.35

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings t… read more

Similar categories in Analeigh Sbrana's Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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12. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind hi… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Memory Thieves (Conjureverse, #2) by Dhonielle Clayton

13. The Memory Thieves (Conjureverse, #2)

By: Dhonielle Clayton

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Eager to wield their stapiers for Marvel Combat, Ella, Brigit, and Jason are back for their second … read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's The Memory Thieves (Conjureverse, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) by Brittany N. Williams

14. That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

By: Brittany N. Williams

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black gir… read more

Similar categories in Brittany N. Williams's That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep," [Joan] said. Keep him playing the scene until she worked out a plan. "Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep / And kill me too." Auberon smiled. "All…"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

"His hand slipped around the back of her neck and pulled her in close. their eyes met. He stopped; his brows knitted. He was waiting for her permission because he couldn't be sure if Hermia's refusal …"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

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15. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

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16. Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

By: Daniel José Older

3.75

Format: 359 pages, ebook

A YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other while fighting for their diaspora commun… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One lie will bring the whole house of lies crashing down."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

"They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

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17. The Beauty Trials (The Belles, #3)

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With the dangerous, erratic Princess Sophia imprisoned, Queen Charlotte decides to invoke the ancie… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's The Beauty Trials (The Belles, #3) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2) by Brittany N. Williams

18. Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2)

By: Brittany N. Williams

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The second book in the stunning YA historical fantasy trilogy that New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Brittany N. Williams's Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. The Dark Place

By: Britney S. Lewis

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You can only hide from your nightmares for so long. Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn't ask… read more

Similar categories in Britney S. Lewis's The Dark Place book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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20. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2) by L.L. McKinney

21. A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

By: L.L. McKinney

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates), Alice must abandon her fri… read more

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • adventure
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

22. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

Similar categories in Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

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23. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
Cover of Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, #2) by Rena Barron

24. Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, #2)

By: Rena Barron

4.03

Format: 464 pages, ebook

After so many years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has the one thing she’s always wanted—at … read more

Similar categories in Rena Barron's Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One who milks his neighbor's goat does not do it for glory... To truly help, one does not need recognition in return."

-Rena Barron, Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, #2)

"My sister Koré once told me that a god's love is a dangerous thing. I know that now. I don't want to die, but I deserve my fate."

-Rena Barron, Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, #2)

Cover of Shadow Coven (The Witchery, #2) by S. Isabelle

25. Shadow Coven (The Witchery, #2)

By: S. Isabelle

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting Season has ended, but dark magic lingers in the shadows. After defeating the Wolves… read more

Similar categories in S. Isabelle's Shadow Coven (The Witchery, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

26. The Candle and the Flame

By: Nafiza Azad

3.75

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Fatima lives in the city of Noor, a thriving stop along the Silk Road. There the music of myriad la… read more

Similar categories in Nafiza Azad's The Candle and the Flame book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"The desert has been a balm to all her hurts. This place with its emptiness and the promise of heat glimmering underneath the sand."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"I wonder what you see in him," Fatima muses. "Apart from his excellent muezzin abilities, you mean?" Adila says. "The symmetry of his face moves me." Azizah sniffs."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"Aren't you cold" Zulfikar shrugs off the plain black shawl he had around his shoulders and wraps it around Fatima Ghazala. "It smells like you," she says, drawing it close around her. "I didn't need …"

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

Cover of Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic, #2) by Liselle Sambury

27. Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic, #2)

By: Liselle Sambury

4.31

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Voya fights to save her witch community from a terrible future.Voya Thomas may have passed her Call… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. Sleep Like Death

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a l… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Sleep Like Death book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

29. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Ifueko's The Maid and the Crocodile book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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30. The Secret World of Maggie Grey

By: Granger .

4.82

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

A vampire, a witch, and a siren get accepted into a magical HBCU. The rest I am not allowed to say … read more

Similar categories in Granger .'s The Secret World of Maggie Grey book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • fantasy
Cover of A Kingdom for a Stage (For a Muse of Fire, #2) by Heidi Heilig

31. A Kingdom for a Stage (For a Muse of Fire, #2)

By: Heidi Heilig

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Jetta is a prisoner. A prisoner of the armee, a prisoner of fate, and a prisoner of her own madness… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Heilig's A Kingdom for a Stage (For a Muse of Fire, #2) book and L.L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2)

  • lgbt
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

29 Best fantasy books like A Dream So Dark (Nightmare-Verse, #2) by L.L. McKinney

Transform Your Habits

Doppelgangster (Esther Diamond, #2)

Laura Resnick

3.86

Transform Your Habits

So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

Kamilah Cole

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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4.31

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