10 Top thriller books like The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu

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The Best Lies

By: Sarah Lyu

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow w…

"There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?"

-Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

"There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?"

-Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

If you liked the thriller plot in The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Dangerous Girls

By: Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Haas's Dangerous Girls book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I win."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"The night is still just getting started."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"Do you love me? You know I do. How much? Miles and miles."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle. We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart. We're wrong."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

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2. Black Iris

By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.72

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable… read more

Similar categories in Leah Raeder's Black Iris book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The whole summer was inside of us."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Call me more things. Call me yours."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Let the sheep bleat. Their own noises soothe them."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

Cover of Cam Girl by Leah Raeder, Elliot Wake

3. Cam Girl

By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.66

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for… read more

Similar categories in Leah Raeder's Cam Girl book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I dream of you in colors that don't exist."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"Not a boy or a girl, not any binary, rigid definition of a person. Just my everything."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"If I die, that's what they'll find in me. This face, inked in the surface of every cell."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

Cover of Underneath Everything by Marcy Beller Paul

4. Underneath Everything

By: Marcy Beller Paul

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mattie shouldn't be at the bonfire. She should be finding new maps for her collection, hanging out … read more

Similar categories in Marcy Beller Paul's Underneath Everything book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. Her Name in the Sky

By: Kelly Quindlen

4.27

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Her Name in the Sky book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Hannah,"

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Your heart will never ask your permission to love."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Hannah stomps, buries, suffocates, wishes for death. "Yeah," she says. "I'm good."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Hate like that—when it's disguised as love, or righteousness or pity—I'm not going to subject you to hate like that."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

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6. Colorblind

By: Siera Maley

4.11

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Harper has a secret... and it’s not that she likes girls. She has a rare and special gift: she can … read more

Similar categories in Siera Maley's Colorblind book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

7. The Housemistress

By: Keira Michelle Telford

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For a lot of seventeen-year-old girls, being sent to a same-sex boarding school would be a nightmar… read more

Similar categories in Keira Michelle Telford's The Housemistress book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

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8. Far From You

By: Tess Sharpe

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Nine months. Two weeks. Six days. That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Fou… read more

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's Far From You book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"She was in love with you,"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"She died scared and in pain, and I felt it."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?" I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of …"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

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9. The Good Girls

By: Teresa Mummert

3.74

Format: None pages, ebook

My life was meticulously planned, and I refused to deviate from that path. While my peers were part… read more

Similar categories in Teresa Mummert's The Good Girls book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. She and I

By: Hannah King

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn’t it? Keeley and Jude are closer tha… read more

Similar categories in Hannah King's She and I book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. Vibe (Pandora's Box, #1)

By: Liza James

3.57

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Aura This wasn’t the life I was meant to live. No, I should be working on solidifying my lad… read more

Similar categories in Liza James's Vibe (Pandora's Box, #1) book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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 Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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

Cover of The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu

13. The Best Lies

By: Sarah Lyu

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?"

-Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

Cover of All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

14. 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 Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery
  • young adult
Cover of All That’s Left to Say by Emery Lord

15. All That’s Left to Say

By: Emery Lord

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's All That’s Left to Say book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. All Eyes on Her

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and We Were Liars, All Eyes on Her by L.E. Flynn is a grippi… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's All Eyes on Her book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Everyone says boys will be boys, but girls? Girls will be monsters."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"She's her full height, confidence sweeping behind her like the train of a wedding dress."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"We're girls, Elle. We make one wrong move, and we're villains. There's no in between. We never had it both ways."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"When you're a girl, you have to scream to get anybody's attention. And even then, all they want you to do is shut up."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

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17. The Music and the Mirror

By: Lola Keeley

4.32

Format: 311 pages, ebook

Anna is the newest member of an elite ballet company. Her first class with her mysterious idol, Vic… read more

Similar categories in Lola Keeley's The Music and the Mirror book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what turns me on more than success?"

-Lola Keeley, The Music and the Mirror

Cover of Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1) by Nadine O'Keeffe

18. Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1)

By: Nadine O'Keeffe

3.81

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Two rival gangs. A marriage meant to unite them. A single word to start a war. Siobhán Branigan … read more

Similar categories in Nadine O'Keeffe's Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1) book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
"Come hell or high water, I'm Nessa's and I'm sure as hell going to make her mine."

-Nadine O'Keeffe, Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1)

"I know, without a doubt, she'd light me up if I let her. The worst part is, I think I'd like the burn."

-Nadine O'Keeffe, Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1)

"-You want to marry me? -I did swear an oath to you in a church already. What's another vow? It's the most romantic thing I've ever heard."

-Nadine O'Keeffe, Broken Vows (Blessed Hearts, #1)

Cover of The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer

19. The Falling Girls

By: Hayley Krischer

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shade and Jadis are everything to each other. They share clothes, toothbrushes, and even matching s… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Krischer's The Falling Girls book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"We're not babes. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

"We're not babies. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

Cover of Nobody Knows But You by Anica Mrose Rissi

20. Nobody Knows But You

By: Anica Mrose Rissi

3.31

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Maybe a killer only looks like a killer in the moment just before, during, or after. Maybe a lia… read more

Similar categories in Anica Mrose Rissi's Nobody Knows But You book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points…"

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

Cover of What's Eating Jackie Oh? by Patricia  Park

21. What's Eating Jackie Oh?

By: Patricia Park

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations o… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's What's Eating Jackie Oh? book and Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

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Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.72

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Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.66

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Underneath Everything

Marcy Beller Paul

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