10 must-read thriller books like La Reina by J.D. Yanez

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La Reina

By: J.D. Yanez

4.52

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the Chicano culture of the 90s, Raina Medina flees sinister secrets buried in her one…

If you liked the thriller plot in La Reina by J.D. Yanez , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Night of the Mannequins book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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2. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • horror
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3. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
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4. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

By: Margarita Longoria

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more

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5. Your Coffin or Mine (Monster Bae, #1)

By: Jacklyn Hyde

4.05

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

A runaway bride. A grumpy 600-year-old vampire pretending to be human. A disaster waiting to happen… read more

Similar categories in Jacklyn Hyde's Your Coffin or Mine (Monster Bae, #1) book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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6. Chicano Frankenstein

By: Daniel A. Olivas

3.61

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging an… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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7. Living Legend (Living Legend #1)

By: Allie Shante

3.88

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s been called from her place in the darkness to aid the side of good in the last place she want… read more

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  • fantasy
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8. Black Candle Women

By: Diane Marie Brown

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more

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  • fantasy
"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."

-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women

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9. A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (Las Leonas, #1)

By: Adriana Herrera

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1889The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe… read more

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10. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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11. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2)

By: Adriana Herrera

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Entertainment Weekly "Best Romance Novels of Spring 2023" Pick! One last summer.  For Manu… read more

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12. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

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13. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • horror
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14. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

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15. Snaring Emberly (Morally Black, #2)

By: Gigi Styx

4.16

Format: 724 pages, Kindle Edition

Revenge was supposed to be simple, but love had other plans Emberly When an abusive ex corner… read more

Similar categories in Gigi Styx's Snaring Emberly (Morally Black, #2) book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
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16. The Witch King (Witch King #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.89

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behi… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's The Witch King (Witch King #1) book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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17. Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

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18. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
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19. One Way Ticket to Earth

By: Daniele Vaccaro

3.74

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

In this emotionally charged story, Max faces the complexities of life, death, and the profound conn… read more

Similar categories in Daniele Vaccaro's One Way Ticket to Earth book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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20. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

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21. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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22. Blood of My Heart (Book of the Death God, #1)

By: K.P. Burchfield

4.03

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

She's done with death, but death is not done with her... With a dark prophecy looming over her h… read more

Similar categories in K.P. Burchfield's Blood of My Heart (Book of the Death God, #1) book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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23. Scorching Lies (Consume Me Book 1)

By: C.M. Nyx

4.20

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

I had everything, a family, safety, comfort, I was the heiress to my fathers empire, but that all c… read more

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24. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
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25. Pinky Promise (The Mafia Promise #1)

By: Brittany Shytle

3.92

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

An up-and-coming doctor finds herself enchanted by a mobster in New York City, leaving her breathle… read more

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26. La Reina

By: J.D. Yanez

4.52

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the Chicano culture of the 90s, Raina Medina flees sinister secrets buried in her one… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Yanez's La Reina book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
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27. Blood & Brujas (Fate of the Acna #1)

By: Mikayla D. Hornedo

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the moment Dayanara could wield a blade, she's been used as a weapon for Caldera, a kingdom of… read more

Similar categories in Mikayla D. Hornedo's Blood & Brujas (Fate of the Acna #1) book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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28. The Witches of El Paso

By: Luis Jaramillo

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richl… read more

Similar categories in Luis Jaramillo's The Witches of El Paso book and J.D. Yanez's La Reina

  • fantasy
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29. The Double Pinky Promise (The Mafia Promise #2)

By: B. Shytle

4.33

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

The last book left many questions unanswered. Get ready to dive into the next chapters to discover … read more

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30. Borrowed Spoons (Valerian Lore, #1)

By: Jenni Peck

4.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

A gamble with time. A  fate that shimmers between the stars.  Forty-five-year-old spoonie Elle… read more

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31. Love & Other Tropes (Love and Other Tropes, #1)

By: Kayla McGrath

4.12

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A summer romance. A mistaken identity. An awkward problem.On the upcoming anniversary of a career-e… read more

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