9 Best contemporary books like A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

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A Dark and Starless Forest

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.95

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest…

If you liked the contemporary plot in A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

1. Spellbook of the Lost and Found

By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle

3.37

Format: 320 pages, ebook

One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. It starts with simp… read more

Similar categories in Moïra Fowley-Doyle's Spellbook of the Lost and Found book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

2. Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's Burn Down, Rise Up book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Have You Seen This Girl by Nita Tyndall

3. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

4. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

Cover of Kindling by Traci Chee

5. Kindling

By: Traci Chee

3.76

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-r… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's Kindling book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. The Memory Eater

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of g… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) by Rochelle Hassan

7. The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • paranormal
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It was like every emotion he'd had to suppress in order to survive the last year and a half was now crashing into him all at once. Every vulnerability he'd locked away so that he could command the ho…"

-Rochelle Hassan, The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

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8. 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 Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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

Cover of The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

9. 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 Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. The Girls Are Never Gone

By: Sarah Glenn Marsh

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Glenn Marsh's The Girls Are Never Gone book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I wonder whether Atheleen or Scarlett used to stay up late into the night, listening for the scrape of something unseen against their walls, or wake up breathless from nightmares about this place - t…"

-Sarah Glenn Marsh, The Girls Are Never Gone

Cover of Bad Witch Burning by Jessica   Lewis

11. Bad Witch Burning

By: Jessica Lewis

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one gir… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Lewis's Bad Witch Burning book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
Cover of In the Shallows by Tanya Byrne

12. In the Shallows

By: Tanya Byrne

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating young adult novel, two girls set out to unravel a mystery tied to the sea―and f… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's In the Shallows book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

13. To Break a Covenant

By: Alison Ames

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Gir… read more

Similar categories in Alison Ames's To Break a Covenant book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. 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 Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • queer
"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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15. Saint Juniper's Folly

By: Alex Crespo

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Cemetery Boys meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in this spellbinding debut! Alex Crespo’s queer haunt… read more

Similar categories in Alex Crespo's Saint Juniper's Folly book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin

16. The Wilderness of Girls

By: Madeline Claire Franklin

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Claire Franklin's The Wilderness of Girls book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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17. By Any Other Name

By: Erin Cotter

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher… read more

Similar categories in Erin Cotter's By Any Other Name book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore

18. Flawless Girls

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionabl… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Flawless Girls book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kolsch

19. Now, Conjurers

By: Freddie Kolsch

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

November 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of… read more

Similar categories in Freddie Kolsch's Now, Conjurers book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

20. A Dark and Starless Forest

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.95

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest book and Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Trespass Against Us by Leon  Kemp

21. 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 Sarah Hollowell's A Dark and Starless Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • queer

16 best-selling fiction books like A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

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Spellbook of the Lost and Found

Moïra Fowley-Doyle

3.37

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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall

3.64

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She Is a Haunting

Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

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Kindling

Traci Chee

3.76

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Heart of Iron

Ashley Poston

3.74

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How To Succeed in Witchcraft

Aislinn Brophy

3.99

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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

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The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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