30 must-read fiction books like Who We Were in the Dark by Jessica Taylor

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Who We Were in the Dark

By: Jessica Taylor

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls and Genuine Fraud, this coming-of-age story with a d…

"Our tragedy, I guess, was that in all that time we did everything we could to not know each other. But somehow, we did know each other, better than we'd thought."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

"Our tragedy, I guess, was that in all that time we did everything we could to not know each other. But somehow, we did know each other, better than we'd thought."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

"Grace was a trick, an illusion, a stretch of my imagination. She'd designed herself to be exactly that. And the more I learned of her, it seemed there was more I didn't know."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

"Grace was a trick, an illusion, a stretch of my imagination. She'd designed herself to be exactly that. And the more I learned of her, it seemed there was more I didn't know."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

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1. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

By: E. Lockhart

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly… read more

Similar categories in E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. No Way Home

By: Jody Feldman

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

How can you save your parents when you are an ocean away? A propulsive international thriller from … read more

Similar categories in Jody Feldman's No Way Home book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. The Legacies

By: Jessica Goodman

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Legacies book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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4. A Year to the Day

By: Robin Benway

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It’s been a year—a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones—holidays, birthdays, everything witho… read more

Similar categories in Robin Benway's A Year to the Day book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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5. The Revenge Game

By: Jordyn Taylor

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A wickedly comic feminist mystery about the dark side of a hopeless romantic's seemingly perfect lo… read more

Similar categories in Jordyn Taylor's The Revenge Game book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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6. The Counselors

By: Jessica Goodman

3.54

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. She's always had a special co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Counselors book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Summer We Forgot

By: Caroline George

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the q… read more

Similar categories in Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go"

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

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11. Tell Me What Really Happened

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. N… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's Tell Me What Really Happened book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. What She Found in the Woods

By: Josephine Angelini

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her.… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Angelini's What She Found in the Woods book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. We Got the Beat

By: Jenna Miller

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jordan Elliot is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor-in-chief of the scho… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's We Got the Beat book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. We'll Never Tell

By: Wendy Heard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A whodunit doused in Hollywood lore. No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We'll Never Tel… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's We'll Never Tell book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Never Coming Home

By: Kate Williams

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beach read you have been dying for! When ten of America's hottest teenage influencers are invit… read more

Similar categories in Kate Williams's Never Coming Home book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. Friends Like These

By: Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twisted secrets that will have readers guessing with every flip of the page. Perfect for fans of GO… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Alvarez's Friends Like These book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. The Second Home

By: Christina Clancy

3.75

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Some places never leave you...After a disastrous summer spent at her family’s home on Cape Cod when… read more

Similar categories in Christina Clancy's The Second Home book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. Eight Nights of Flirting (Golden Doors #2)

By: Hannah Reynolds

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Reynolds's Eight Nights of Flirting (Golden Doors #2) book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. Lord of the Fly Fest

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA … read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's Lord of the Fly Fest book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"It's a condition I have where I don't care about things."

-Goldy Moldavsky, Lord of the Fly Fest

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25. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

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

-Laura Bates, No Accident

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26. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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27. 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 Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) by Jeff  Bishop

28. A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1)

By: Jeff Bishop

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You’ve Reached Sam meets John Hughes in a funny and heartfelt debut about a boy’s delirious summert… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Bishop's A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Who We Were in the Dark by Jessica  Taylor

29. Who We Were in the Dark

By: Jessica Taylor

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls and Genuine Fraud, this coming-of-age story with a d… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • audiobook
"Our tragedy, I guess, was that in all that time we did everything we could to not know each other. But somehow, we did know each other, better than we'd thought."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

"Grace was a trick, an illusion, a stretch of my imagination. She'd designed herself to be exactly that. And the more I learned of her, it seemed there was more I didn't know."

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

"I thought about this new scene, this story that Grace had created for us. Maybe we were her inventions. Ready and willing to bend to her will. I just didn't know there was only so far to bend til we'…"

-Jessica Taylor, Who We Were in the Dark

Cover of The Champions by Kara Thomas

30. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

Cover of This Is Not a Dead Girl Story by Kate    Sweeney

31. This Is Not a Dead Girl Story

By: Kate Sweeney

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A dark and powerful mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and true crime podcasts, in which … read more

Similar categories in Kate Sweeney's This Is Not a Dead Girl Story book and Jessica Taylor's Who We Were in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

E. Lockhart

4.20

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No Way Home

Jody Feldman

3.28

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The Legacies

Jessica Goodman

3.57

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Robin Benway

3.49

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21 must-read fiction books like A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

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Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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