7 best-selling paranormal books like The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

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…

"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. They only care about souls."

-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 about your life, minding your own goddamn business, and suddenly become prey."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

If you liked the paranormal plot in The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

1. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

2. 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 Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • mystery
"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

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

3. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Cover of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) by Hafsah Faizal

4. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • young adult
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Cover of Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

5. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1) by Elizabeth        May

6. To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1)

By: Elizabeth May

3.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone, this Imperial Russia-inspired romantasy launch… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth May's To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1) book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain

7. One Last Breath

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatur… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's One Last Breath book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Voyage of the Damned by Frances   White

8. Voyage of the Damned

By: Frances White

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The TikTok sensation from the UK has come to North America! This special first edition hardcover w… read more

Similar categories in Frances White's Voyage of the Damned book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind."

-Frances White, Voyage of the Damned

Cover of Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

9. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

Cover of The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

10. The Honey Witch

By: Sydney J. Shields

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young … read more

Similar categories in Sydney J. Shields's The Honey Witch book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
"But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets…"

-Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

Cover of An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

11. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

Cover of Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

12. Your Blood, My Bones

By: Kelly Andrew

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's Your Blood, My Bones book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

13. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

14. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

15. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin  Starling

16. Last to Leave the Room

By: Caitlin Starling

3.51

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawr… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Last to Leave the Room book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

17. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

18. 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 Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

19. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • witches
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

20. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

21. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

21 must-read fiction books like The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Hafsah Faizal

3.57

View all the books

21 best-selling fiction books like Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

Transform Your Habits

Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)

Sophie Kim

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

Hannah Kaner

3.94

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.