6 Best lesbian books like The Letting Go by Deborah Markus

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The Letting Go

By: Deborah Markus

3.18

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone Emily has ever loved has been brutally murdered. The killer has never been caught, but Emi…

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1. Dangerous Girls

By: Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Haas's Dangerous Girls book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I win."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"The night is still just getting started."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"Do you love me? You know I do. How much? Miles and miles."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle. We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart. We're wrong."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

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2. People Like Us

By: Dana Mele

3.52

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself en… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mele's People Like Us book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • boarding school
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"I don't want to fall back into that wild spinning nothingness again. Because once you're in it, there are no footholds. It takes something extraordinary, a cosmic alignment of divine proportions, to …"

-Dana Mele, People Like Us

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3. The Female of the Species

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft kno… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Female of the Species book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Darkest Corners

By: Kara Thomas

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Darkest Cornersis a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly tru… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Darkest Corners book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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5. Yellow Brick War (Dorothy Must Die, #3)

By: Danielle Paige

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, there was a girl from Kansas named Dorothy. You might know her as the Girl Who Ro… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Paige's Yellow Brick War (Dorothy Must Die, #3) book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • fiction
  • young adult
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6. A Line in the Dark

By: Malinda Lo

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. Jess Wong is … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Line in the Dark book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

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

7. Untitled

By: Courtney Summers

4.27

Format: 224 pages,

It's a road trip novel. It will hurt A Lot. Prepare yourself now. read more

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8. 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

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9. Bone Gap

By: Laura Ruby

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps--gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disa… read more

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10. The Dead House

By: Dawn Kurtagich

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary en… read more

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11. The End of Oz (Dorothy Must Die, #4)

By: Danielle Paige

3.22

Format: 111 pages, ebook

Ding dong--Dorothy is dead. I watched as the Emerald Palace crumbled to the ground, burying Dorothy… read more

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12. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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13. That Weekend

By: Kara Thomas

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip - what could go wrong? It was supposed to be the… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's That Weekend book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?"

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"I wish you'd killed me, I tried to say with my eyes. Then maybe someone would finally stop you."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Maybe, like me, it's even more than the absence. The silence, maybe - the waiting for the phone call that never comes."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Recently, she dyed her short blond bob a sassy red, a decision my mother and I discussed at length back when my friends weren't missing and we consumed other peoples' tragedies for entertainment."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

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14. The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. N…"

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

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15. Win Lose Kill Die

By: Cynthia Murphy

3.61

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

An explosive new YA thriller, from the author of Last One To Die. The students at Morton Academy ar… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Murphy's Win Lose Kill Die book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
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16. The Ivies

By: Alexa Donne

3.69

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get i… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's The Ivies book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • boarding school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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17. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gripping new psychological thriller from the author of Little Creeping Things—can a grieving girl… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I was gonna come back for you', I lied."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"No coffee? Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"This is going to be so much worse than that', I saw like an archvillian."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

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20. Bravely

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.94

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Merida goes on an all-new, life-changing adventure in this original YA novel set several years afte… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Bravely book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • fiction
  • young adult
"There is no glory in ruin; it only matters because of what comes after."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Bravely

"This is your dog?" the Dásachtach asked. "He was a gift," Harris answered in his distant way. "Do you not think a dog's behavior reflects its master?" "I do." "And do you think this dog reflects you …"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Bravely

"The long warm light that came just before the night shimmered like water. As fall approached, the sounds of bellowing red stags punctuated the woods, fierce as bears. The leaves were not yet changing…"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Bravely

"These long northern summer days stretched out forever and ever, turning into a short gray night for just a few hours before rolling right into another bright day. The trees were every color of green:…"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Bravely

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21. The Kingdom of Back

By: Marie Lu

3.71

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. But even as… read more

Similar categories in Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Be wary of what you wish for."

-Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

"Wishes have a habit of surprising their makers."

-Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

"The older we were, the less magnificent we seemed."

-Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

"Music is music. The source of it does not matter so much."

-Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

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22. Artifice

By: Sharon Cameron

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of Wor… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's Artifice book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • fiction
  • young adult
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23. The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1)

By: Leslie Vedder

3.80

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Th… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Vedder's The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1) book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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24. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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25. The Last True Poets of the Sea

By: Julia Drake

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brot… read more

Similar categories in Julia Drake's The Last True Poets of the Sea book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I had never had friends before, not like this."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"In the fog, she kissed me once, very quickly, and it felt like courage."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"I imagined her springing from her father’s head, fully formed, like Athena."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"Why did adventures have to happen away from home? Couldn’t the puzzle be an adventure, too?"

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

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26. Little Monsters

By: Kara Thomas

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Little Monsters book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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27. Even If We Break

By: Marieke Nijkamp

2.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a gro… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's Even If We Break book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Finn never told me how reassuring physical pain can be. It sends a thrill through me. A restless trembling that leaves me breathless—a hunger."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

"Here, everything is possible. And that is the biggest lie of all. I don't just want to make the game good for them; I want to stay here and never go back."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

"It's hard, isn't it? Trusting others with the whole of you?" She smiles bitterly and shakes her head. "It's so much easier to lie. You know that. You lie too."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

" My friends are hurting. It's my job to protect them. It's my job to keep them safe." "No, your job is to love hard enough to counterbalance the hatred. That's enough. "

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

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28. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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29. The River Has Teeth

By: Erica Waters

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Natasha’s sister is missing. Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The River Has Teeth book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Seemed like it was always the greed of men that undid a successful woman."

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

"There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men wh…"

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

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30. 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 Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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31. The Letting Go

By: Deborah Markus

3.18

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone Emily has ever loved has been brutally murdered. The killer has never been caught, but Emi… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Markus's The Letting Go book and Deborah Markus's The Letting Go

  • lesbian
  • boarding school
  • teen
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer

25 Top fiction books like The Letting Go by Deborah Markus

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Dangerous Girls

Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

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People Like Us

Dana Mele

3.52

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The Female of the Species

Mindy McGinnis

4.08

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The Darkest Corners

Kara Thomas

3.93

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17 must-read fiction books like The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1) by Leslie Vedder

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Sofi and the Bone Song

Adrienne Tooley

4.05

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Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

Kate Scelsa

3.72

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So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

Kamilah Cole

3.90

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