10 Top queer books like The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

Cover of The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul…

If you liked the queer plot in The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

1. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker

2. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

3. 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 Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. 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 Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

5. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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6. Killer House Party

By: Lily Anderson

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winning author Lily Anderson comes a young adult horror that follows Arden and he… read more

Similar categories in Lily Anderson's Killer House Party book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

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8. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. 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 Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
"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 The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

10. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
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11. Death at Morning House

By: Maureen Johnson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Not About a Boy by Myah Hollis

12. Not About a Boy

By: Myah Hollis

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken … read more

Similar categories in Myah Hollis's Not About a Boy book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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 Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley

14. Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

By: Codie Crowley

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge . . . she just has to f… read more

Similar categories in Codie Crowley's Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma

15. Immortal Dark

By: Tigest Girma

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost… read more

Similar categories in Tigest Girma's Immortal Dark book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) by Hayley Dennings

16. This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)

By: Hayley Dennings

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Dennings's This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky

17. So Witches We Became

By: Jill Baguchinsky

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more

Similar categories in Jill Baguchinsky's So Witches We Became book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of It's Only a Game by Kelsea Yu

18. It's Only a Game

By: Kelsea Yu

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this twisty, fast-paced YA thriller, a dangerous game becomes all too real when Marina and her f… read more

Similar categories in Kelsea Yu's It's Only a Game book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker

19. Come Out, Come Out

By: Natalie C. Parker

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A spine-tingling LGBTQIA+ YA horror about queer teens who accidentally invoke a twisted spirit who … read more

Similar categories in Natalie C. Parker's Come Out, Come Out book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

20. Such Lovely Skin

By: Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evil video game A lying Twitch streamer A demon hungry for her secrets After spending the s… read more

Similar categories in Tatiana Schlote-Bonne's Such Lovely Skin book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
Cover of Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

21. Practical Rules for Cursed Witches

By: Kayla Cottingham

4.12

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a sapphic fantasy adventure … read more

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's Practical Rules for Cursed Witches book and Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt

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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

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Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

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Under the Surface

Diana Urban

4.10

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Christina Henry

3.22

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Paul Tremblay

3.45

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