5 Best paranormal books like The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas

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The Good Demon

By: Jimmy Cajoleas

3.68

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

True Detective meets The Exorcist in this gripping YA mystery debut about one girl’s exorcism—and h…

"...Not many people care much about the past. We don’t get folks your age in here. It’s either the elderly, or parents come in with their hollering little devil kids. Feel more like a social worker than a librarian most days. But that’s life, ain’t it?"

-Jimmy Cajoleas, The Good Demon

If you liked the paranormal plot in The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Sweet Hereafter

By: Russell Banks

4.23

Format: 128 pages,

When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens … read more

Similar categories in Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Bless the Beasts and Children

By: Glendon Swarthout

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Enriched with detailed notes and commentary, Glendon Swarthout's classic tale of adolescent "misfit… read more

Similar categories in Glendon Swarthout's Bless the Beasts and Children book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • young adult

3. The Price Guide to the Occult

By: Leslye Walton

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Blackburn women are cursed. Ever since the extraordinary witch Rona Blackburn landed on Anathem… read more

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4. Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend

By: Catana Chetwynd

4.38

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Why bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book o… read more

Similar categories in Catana Chetwynd's Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • contemporary
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5. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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6. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.12

Format: 28 pages, ebook

Each of the Empire's houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the S… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5) book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was"

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was."

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

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7. The Remaking

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.24

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a ta… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's The Remaking book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
"You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong."

-Clay McLeod Chapman, The Remaking

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8. The Bones of Ruin (The Bones of Ruin, #1)

By: Sarah Raughley

3.62

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Raughley's The Bones of Ruin (The Bones of Ruin, #1) book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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9. In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together

By: Catana Chetwynd

4.28

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Snug and the bestselling Little Moments of Love… read more

Similar categories in Catana Chetwynd's In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • contemporary
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10. These Deadly Prophecies

By: Andrea Tang

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A teenage sorcerer’s apprentice must solve her boss’s murder in order to prove her innocence in thi… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Tang's These Deadly Prophecies book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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11. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

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12. Bad Dreams in the Night

By: Adam Ellis

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , this collection of original hor… read more

Similar categories in Adam Ellis's Bad Dreams in the Night book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. Angels Before Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.14

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more

Similar categories in Rafael Nicolás's Angels Before Man book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"

-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

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14. Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

By: Daniel Stone

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stone's Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

"History, after all, isn't told by the dead."

-Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

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15. You Are Home (The Catana Comic Collection)

By: Catana Chetwynd

4.54

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and creator Catana Chetwynd’s latest collection of comics illustr… read more

Similar categories in Catana Chetwynd's You Are Home (The Catana Comic Collection) book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • contemporary
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16. Fright Night

By: Maren Stoffels

3.46

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Wat is je grootste angst? Ik weet het antwoord nu. Een groepje vrienden geeft zich op voor een Fr… read more

Similar categories in Maren Stoffels's Fright Night book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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17. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

By: Stephen L. Carter

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s … read more

Similar categories in Stephen L. Carter's Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

"It was all so beautiful, so quiet, and yet with such a full and thrilling sweep from time into eternity that my sorrow was stilled and I could wail no monody. My desolate hour must wait."

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

"In 1950 there would be 31,707 male lawers in New York State. There would be 1,275 female lawyers in New York State. There would be 19 Negro women lawyers in New York State. Put otherwise, black women…"

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

"Negroes were constantly being arrested in the city, for crimes they committed and for crimes they did not, for rudeness or talking back or looking at a white woman, for being in the wrong neighborhoo…"

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

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18. Wake the Bones

By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Kilcoyne's Wake the Bones book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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19. The Good Demon

By: Jimmy Cajoleas

3.68

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

True Detective meets The Exorcist in this gripping YA mystery debut about one girl’s exorcism—and h… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • demons
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"...Not many people care much about the past. We don’t get folks your age in here. It’s either the elderly, or parents come in with their hollering little devil kids. Feel more like a social worker th…"

-Jimmy Cajoleas, The Good Demon

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20. Youth Group

By: Jordan Morris

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Kay reluctantly agreed to join the youth group at Stone Mission Church in Orange County Califo… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Morris's Youth Group book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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21. Kill For Love

By: Laura Picklesimer

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more

Similar categories in Laura Picklesimer's Kill For Love book and Jimmy Cajoleas's The Good Demon

  • mystery
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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