6 must-read mystery thriller books like The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.15

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. B…

"Why do I have to tell a story?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"The answer to your first riddle,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"Do you know what philanthropist means?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"Nothing is certain but death and taxes."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

By: Holly Black

4.29

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince. … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Faeries…?"

-Holly Black, The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

"my pretty face"

-Holly Black, The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

"Kiss me again,"

-Holly Black, The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

"Deny it, then,"

-Holly Black, The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

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2. Caraval (Caraval, #1)

By: Stephanie Garber

3.98

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

A legendary competition. A mesmerizing romance. An unbreakable bond between two sisters. Scar… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Remember, it’s only a game."

-Stephanie Garber, Caraval (Caraval, #1)

"He was mystery and unanswered questions."

-Stephanie Garber, Caraval (Caraval, #1)

"There's more to life then staying safe..."

-Stephanie Garber, Caraval (Caraval, #1)

"It took seven years to get the letter right."

-Stephanie Garber, Caraval (Caraval, #1)

Cover of Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) by Tahereh Mafi

3. Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

By: Tahereh Mafi

4.13

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me ser… read more

Similar categories in Tahereh Mafi's Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What?"

-Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

"Do you know,"

-Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

"Are you kidding?"

-Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

"The man is moody as hell."

-Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

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4. Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)

By: Tahereh Mafi

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

I have a curse I have a gift I am a monster I'm more than human My touch is lethal My touch is powe… read more

Similar categories in Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3) by Tahereh Mafi

5. Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)

By: Tahereh Mafi

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The heart-stopping conclusion to the New York Timesbestselling Shatter Me series, which Ransom Rigg… read more

Similar categories in Tahereh Mafi's Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult

6. Legendary (Caraval, #2)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to the New York Timesbestselling and #1 IndieNext Pick Caraval, following Scarlett's you… read more

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7. The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

By: Holly Black

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will… read more

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8. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.20

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived. -Thea Attwood"

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

Cover of The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

9. The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.15

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. B… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Why do I have to tell a story?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"The answer to your first riddle,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"Do you know what philanthropist means?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

"Nothing is certain but death and taxes."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

Cover of A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3) by Stephanie Garber

10. A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.13

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to t… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Garber's A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"My turn again."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"Being yours does not make you mine."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"You could never look awful,' he said faintly."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"His heart was racing again, and now so was hers."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

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11. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

By: Lauren Roberts

4.22

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting. He is the very thing she’s spent her whol… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Roberts's Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A forget-me-not, since you always seem to be forgetting who I am."

-Lauren Roberts, Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

"Every girl deserves something as equally pretty and deadly as they are,"

-Lauren Roberts, Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

"when his eyes lock with mine, I wonder why I ever bother looking at anyone else."

-Lauren Roberts, Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

"Mark my words, Prince. I will be your undoing." "Oh Darling, I look forward to it."

-Lauren Roberts, Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

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12. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Cover of Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5) by Lauren  Roberts

13. Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)

By: Lauren Roberts

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Set during the time of the New York Times bestseller Powerless, fan favorite Adena gets a story all… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around. And I wonder how I’ve stumbled this long without her to guide me."

-Lauren Roberts, Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)

Cover of Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) by Stephanie Garber

14. Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.06

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

How far would you go for happily ever after? For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It’s you,"

-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

"What will your help cost me?"

-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

"For finding dreams that don't exist yet."

-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

"But you have to have a working heart for it to break."

-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

Cover of The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2) by Stephanie Garber

15. The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.51

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Not every love is meant to be. After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox sw… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Garber's The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2) book and Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Where were you?"

-Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

"I swear this is what I really want."

-Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

"How did I look?" "Like you would kill for her"

-Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

"Ballads never end happily, everyone knows that."

-Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

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16. 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

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  • 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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17. Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

By: Lynn Painter

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic t… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"She's not you." "What?" "She.Isn't.You"

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I pulled back and let myself stare at his handsome face, at the person who had always been there for me, even when I hadn’t wanted him to be."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"Here’s how it usually went: I would see a cute guy, daydream about him for weeks and totally build him up in my mind to be my one-and-only soul mate."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

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18. Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

By: Holly Jackson

4.29

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast a… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"That's worth the risk. It's too important."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"Time is in charge here, not me, and that's terrifying"

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"MY DAD ISNT A KILLER!!!" he yelled. -paragraph- "cant relate," Cara shrugged."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"It was done, it was gone. There was no going back now. This was her, and it was OK."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

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19. As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

By: Holly Jackson

4.21

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Not then and there. Here and now."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Machines didn’t lie, only people did."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Well,’ Pip smiled, ‘I’m still me.’ She hoped that was true."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"The game had changed.Her against them.Save herself to save herself."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

Cover of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly  Jackson

20. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

By: Holly Jackson

4.32

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murde… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"He's innocent"

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"I don’t trust coincidences."

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"We’re a team, remember. You and me."

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"Real men wear floral when trespassing"

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

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21. Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

By: Lauren Roberts

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil… After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gra… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Tell me you hate me, and I'll still count every heartbeat, every freckle, every shiver of your body, if only you say it with a smile."

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"I'd be a fool to not fear something so fierce." I swallow. "And are you not? A fool, that is." He stands then, holding my gaze until he's the one looking down on me. "Not anymore."

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"I may be a monster, but if you cut me, I'll bleed. And if you break my heart, Pae, you'll break me. So, if even a sliver of your soul longs for mine, I'll spend the rest of my life trying to deserve …"

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"You asked me what my favorite color was once. I'd never even pondered the answer to that question before you. And yet, I realized in that moment that it was blue." He bends to brush a kiss to my temp…"

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

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4.29

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3.98

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4.13

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