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Ash

Malinda Lo · 264 pages

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa,

Fae/FaeriesForestSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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The Replacement

Brenna Yovanoff · 355 pages

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, he's slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more a

Fae/FaeriesSmall Town SecretsBrothersEerie
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

ForestEerieBrothersAtmospheric
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The Dream Thieves

Maggie Stiefvater · 448 pages

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.

BrothersSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

Fae/FaeriesAtmosphericYoung AdultFantasy
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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Small Town SecretsEerieAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Splintered

A.G. Howard · 400 pages

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's ***Alice's Adventures in Wonderland***. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother's mental health takes a tur

Fae/FaeriesEerieYoung AdultFantasy
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Bones of Faerie

Janni Lee Simner · 256 pages

The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza's world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability

Fae/FaeriesForestAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

ForestEerieLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 310 pages

Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mo

Fae/FaeriesForestAtmosphericYoung Adult
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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 432 pages

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feeling

Fae/FaeriesForestAtmosphericFantasy
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Wings

Aprilynne Pike · 305 pages

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a fairy and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

Fae/FaeriesForestYoung AdultFantasy
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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow · 347 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick) Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of Jan

Small Town SecretsEerieAtmosphericFantasy
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House of Hollow

Krystal Sutherland · 292 pages

Fae/FaeriesEerieAtmosphericYoung Adult
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The Invited

Jennifer McMahon · 399 pages

Small Town SecretsForestEerieAtmospheric
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The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 126 pages

Meghan Chase has a secret destiny—one she could never have imagined...Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school...or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's

Fae/FaeriesYoung AdultFantasyFirst Person Narrator
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Unearthly

Cynthia Hand

Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

BrothersForestYoung AdultFantasy
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Winter Rose

Patricia A. McKillip · 267 pages

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the

Fae/FaeriesForestFantasyAtmospheric
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The Treachery of Beautiful Things

Ruth Frances Long

Seven years after the forest seemingly swallowed her brother whole, seventeen-year-old Jenny, whose story about Tom's disappearance has never been believed, sets out to finally say goodbye, but instead she is pulled into a mysterious world of faeries and other creatures where nothing is what it seems.

Fae/FaeriesForestBrothersYoung Adult
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Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

Small Town SecretsForestEerieAtmospheric
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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 533 pages

ForestSexual OrientationAtmosphericLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher · 97 pages

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella! From New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. *The very special hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. M

Fae/FaeriesForestEerieAtmospheric
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Beware the Wild

Natalie C. Parker · 341 pages

A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.

Small Town SecretsEerieYoung AdultAtmospheric
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Missing

Kelley Armstrong · 384 pages

The best thing about being a teen in Reeve's End is that I'll be able to leave soon. Like my best friend did. Like my sister did. Most of us go. There's nothing here but abandoned mines and an empty future. I'm better off taking my chances elsewhere. The only thing I'll miss is the Kentucky wilderness that has always been my refuge. But that changed the day I found Lennon. Left for dead, ble

Small Town SecretsForestYoung AdultAtmospheric

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