16 best-selling queer books like Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

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Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. …

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

If you liked the queer plot in Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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2. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

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3. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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4. Where Echoes Die

By: Courtney Gould

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigativ… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's Where Echoes Die book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I want to feel like I can keep going. Like I know how. I don't want to be afraid to look forward and lose everything behind me."

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"...that pain isn't universal. It's just a part of living in Backravel, tethered to the same chunk of time forever with no escape. At one point, Beck thought it sounded perfect. Now, it sounds like a …"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"For the first time it occurs to Beck that the people of Backravel might not be recognizing her, but her similarities to her mother. An ache pangs deep in Beck's chest, and she wants to press for more…"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"She can't help picturing what her morning would look like today in a world where [her mother] never died. [...] She didn't like details then because details made time slow down. Lingering in the same…"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

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5. Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"Do you want to know where Lucy went? She went to play the game. You can play, too. Find a partner. Find a key. Find the road. You have two days."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

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6. The Wicked Unseen

By: Gigi Griffis

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there's a secret Sata… read more

Similar categories in Gigi Griffis's The Wicked Unseen book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"If I had the Taser, Truck Nuts would be Electric Nuts"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

"Fantasma. She didn't alert. That probably means it's animal blood. Or fake, maybe. ENGLISH! Get fucked. How's that?"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

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7. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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8. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • queer
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9. 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 Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • 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

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10. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

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11. Wilder Girls

By: Rory Power

3.46

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Wilder Girls book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’m still bitter,"

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's complicated," She says at last. "Or maybe I just wish it was."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

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12. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

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13. 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 Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

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14. Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

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15. The Last Girls Standing

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do, perfect for fans of One o… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's The Last Girls Standing book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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16. My Dearest Darkest

By: Kayla Cottingham

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

WILDER GIRLS meets THE CRAFT in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: What price would you be willin… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's My Dearest Darkest book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
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17. Ghost Wood Song

By: Erica Waters

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sawkill Girls meets Beautiful Creatures in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between re… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's Ghost Wood Song book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"I'm as restless as the ghosts today."

-Erica Waters, Ghost Wood Song

Cover of The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

18. 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 Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"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

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19. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • queer
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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20. 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 Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • 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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21. 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 Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer

16 best-selling fiction books like Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand

3.67

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The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Where Echoes Die

Courtney Gould

3.60

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The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

3.64

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Claire Legrand

3.67

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