14 Best lgbt books like Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos

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Throwaway Girls

By: Andrea Contos

3.62

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Caroline Lawson is three months away from freedom, otherwise known as graduation day. That's when s…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Ten

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Shhhh! Don't spread the word! Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island. You do … read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's Ten book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

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2. 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 Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

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

-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening

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3. Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“Jane” was just your typical 17-year-old getting ready to start her senior year. She had a part-tim… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Faria Stolarz's Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1) book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Good Girls

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in … read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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5. 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 Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • queer
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7. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Pretty Dead Queens

By: Alexa Donne

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-o… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's Pretty Dead Queens book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. One Last Breath

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatur… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's One Last Breath book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. The Narrow

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously terrifying novel about a ghost who uncovers a teen girl's best kept secrets while hau… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's The Narrow book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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11. The Truth About Keeping Secrets

By: Savannah Brown

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sydney's dad is the only psychiatrist for miles around their small Ohio town. He is also unexpec… read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's The Truth About Keeping Secrets book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"And ahead of me, June moved like her body had a whole world in it."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"Fuck domino effects. Fuck everything happens for a reason. Fuck it, fuck it, absolutely fuck all of it to hell."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"I'd shut myself out for so long that I had forgotten how wonderful it felt to be included, to be seen, to be heard."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"Eventually, 'Dad is dead' turned into 'I will die', which was my introduction to the fear. The fear of gone. The fear of nothing at all, of what happens to me, of I am the main character and the stor…"

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

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12. Little Creeping Things

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least,… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Little Creeping Things book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I stand helpless, a familiar desire seeping into my veins. That desire to watch something burn."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"I let those little creeping things embed themselves inside my brain, inside my very core, until they ate away at who I was."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"I've spent the past ten years trying to erase this image. Fire Girl. Trying to convince everyone - trying to convince myself - I'm not a killer."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"Cold sweat breaks out over my forehead. I zero in on the photo and the caption beneath it. Just one line that makes my skin prickle and my heart lunge. "I'm so glad we're in this together."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

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13. Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

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14. 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 Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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15. The Last Girls Standing

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do, perfect for fans of One o… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's The Last Girls Standing book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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16. All Eyes on Us

By: Kit Frick

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Pretty Little Liars meets People Like Us in this taut, tense thriller about two teens who find the… read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's All Eyes on Us book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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17. 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 Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

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

-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code

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18. Throwaway Girls

By: Andrea Contos

3.62

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Caroline Lawson is three months away from freedom, otherwise known as graduation day. That's when s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • queer
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19. 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 Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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 Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

20. Forget This Ever Happened

By: Cassandra Rose Clarke

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't. Summer, 1993. Claire h… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Rose Clarke's Forget This Ever Happened book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
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21. Dead End Girls

By: Wendy Heard

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. After years of … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's Dead End Girls book and Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

18 best-selling fiction books like Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos

Transform Your Habits

I Hope You're Listening

Tom Ryan

3.84

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Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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The Good Girls

Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

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Four Found Dead

Natalie D. Richards

3.45

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17 best-selling fiction books like Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Limbs

Paula Garner

3.93

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Sovereign (Nemesis, #2)

April Daniels

4.11

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Gunslinger Girl

James Patterson , Lyndsay Ely

3.86

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A Sweet Sting of Salt

Rose Sutherland

3.88

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