23 Top thriller books like It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames

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It Looks Like Us

By: Alison Ames

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic t…

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1. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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2. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
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3. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery
  • horror
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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4. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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5. Only She Came Back

By: Margot Harrison

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A chilling thriller about an unlikely friendship between a true-crime fan and a former high school … read more

Similar categories in Margot Harrison's Only She Came Back book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • horror
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"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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7. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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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11. The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. Direwood

By: Catherine Yu

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this velvet-clad 1990s gothic horror, Aja encounters a charming vampire who wants to lure her in… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Yu's Direwood book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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15. Greymist Fair

By: Francesca Zappia

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The people of Greymist Fair know that the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and that they sh… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Zappia's Greymist Fair book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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16. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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17. Under the Surface

By: Diana Urban

4.10

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping … read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's Under the Surface book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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18. No Accident

By: Laura Bates

3.27

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

The Wilds meets One of Us is Lying in this survivalist YA thriller about seven teens who are strand… read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's No Accident book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"We should take the scars we don’t see as seriously as the ones we do."

-Laura Bates, No Accident

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19. Six of Sorrow

By: Amanda Linsmeier

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day—and now, on their birthday, one of them is m… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Linsmeier's Six of Sorrow book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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20. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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21. It Looks Like Us

By: Alison Ames

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic t… read more

Similar categories in Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
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22. Glassheart (Thirteens, #3)

By: Kate Alice Marshall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The terrifying conclusion to Thirteens and Brackenbeast, for fans of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Str… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Glassheart (Thirteens, #3) book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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23. Girls Like Her

By: Melanie Sumrow

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to st… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Sumrow's Girls Like Her book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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24. Dad Camp

By: Evan S. Porter

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter … read more

Similar categories in Evan S. Porter's Dad Camp book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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26. 49 Miles Alone

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.65

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Four days alone in the desert. Except they're not as alone as they think. A year ago, Katie and her… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's 49 Miles Alone book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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27. William

By: Mason Coile

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more

Similar categories in Mason Coile's William book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
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28. I Will Never Leave You

By: Kara A. Kennedy

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfr… read more

Similar categories in Kara A. Kennedy's I Will Never Leave You book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
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29. A Mask of Flies

By: Matthew Lyons

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons is a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and The Outsider, … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lyons's A Mask of Flies book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2) by Beth Lincoln

30. The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)

By: Beth Lincoln

4.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Shenanigan Swift is headed to Paris, where new mysteries and new relatives await. The hilarious, qu… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2) book and Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We built through invasion and war, theft and murder, plague and the sacking of empires, until our cities were graveyards, and our mouths were graveyards, and our speech is the speech of the dead."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)

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31. 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 Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary

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