21 Best young adult books like The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett

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The Good Girls

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in …

If you liked the young adult plot in The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. People Like Us

By: Dana Mele

3.52

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself en… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mele's People Like Us book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"I don't want to fall back into that wild spinning nothingness again. Because once you're in it, there are no footholds. It takes something extraordinary, a cosmic alignment of divine proportions, to …"

-Dana Mele, People Like Us

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2. I Hope You're Listening

By: Tom Ryan

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Te… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"It's our story. We should tell it together"

-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening

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3. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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4. The Legacies

By: Jessica Goodman

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Legacies book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Good Girls

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in … read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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6. Nothing More to Tell

By: Karen M. McManus

3.90

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teach… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Nothing More to Tell book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Because you can make a real difference with every story, and give a voice to people who don’t have one."

-Karen M. McManus, Nothing More to Tell

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7. The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident—two g… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"At some time you have to choose to live in the light."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

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8. That Weekend

By: Kara Thomas

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip - what could go wrong? It was supposed to be the… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's That Weekend book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?"

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"I wish you'd killed me, I tried to say with my eyes. Then maybe someone would finally stop you."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Maybe, like me, it's even more than the absence. The silence, maybe - the waiting for the phone call that never comes."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Recently, she dyed her short blond bob a sassy red, a decision my mother and I discussed at length back when my friends weren't missing and we consumed other peoples' tragedies for entertainment."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

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9. Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

4.08

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a r… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Five Survive book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"That's what she said -Simon"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"His whole life has been a war, that does something to your head, I think. It's done something to my head."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"Trapped. Shut in. Only thirty-one feet to share between them, that extra foot important enough not to round down."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

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10. They'll Never Catch Us

By: Jessica Goodman

3.72

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team--the only way out o… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's They'll Never Catch Us book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Raven has always been nice in the same way vanilla is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough."

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

"Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough."

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

"The spiral continues until I remember something Mom once said: Everyone hates themselves a little. If you get over that, you survive. Sure, she said it when she was drunk and I was five. But I think …"

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

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11. The Ivies

By: Alexa Donne

3.69

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get i… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's The Ivies book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. Pretty Dead Queens

By: Alexa Donne

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-o… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's Pretty Dead Queens book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. I Killed Zoe Spanos

By: Kit Frick

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"In that moment, his expression changes, geniality sliding away into something between awe and dread. “Zoe?"

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"But there are some secrets—my secrets—that Windermere will hold forever, trapped beneath the ash like spilled blood."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

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14. 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • 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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15. They Wish They Were Us

By: Jessica Goodman

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set against the backdrop of an exclusive prep school on Long Island. In Gold Co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's They Wish They Were Us book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"What do we do now?" I asked, trying to silence the screams in my head. "We go on" Adam said. "We keep going". I nodded but I did not ask my next question. How?"

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"Sometimes it's hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"You're just like me", she said softly in a maternal voice. "Scared. Young". My stomach sank. Those didn't sound like good things. "You'll survive, though", she continued. "We're the strong ones"."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

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16. Little Monsters

By: Kara Thomas

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Little Monsters book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Thin Air

By: Kellie M. Parker

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of tee… read more

Similar categories in Kellie M. Parker's Thin Air book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • 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

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20. Throwaway Girls

By: Andrea Contos

3.62

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Caroline Lawson is three months away from freedom, otherwise known as graduation day. That's when s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Contos's Throwaway Girls book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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21. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

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