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Foxglove

Adalyn Grace · 465 pages

Gothic FictionRomantasyAtmosphericForbidden Love
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Rebel Angels

Libba Bray · 548 pages

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma's visions intensify--visions o

Gothic FictionForbidden LoveYoung AdultVictorian Era
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Beautiful Darkness

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 507 pages

Together Ethan and Lena can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in th

Forbidden LoveAtmosphericGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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Kingdom of the Wicked

Kerri Maniscalco · 448 pages

Slow Burn RomanceRomantasyForbidden LoveAtmospheric
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The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig · 400 pages

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s wi

Gothic FictionRomantasySlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

Slow Burn RomanceVictorian EraForbidden LoveAtmospheric
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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

Gothic FictionGhosts & HauntingsAtmosphericSlow Burn Romance
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For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

RomantasyGothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
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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,

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceForbidden LoveAtmospheric
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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 439 pages

Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger. When she meets Gansey, one of the boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as "raven boys", they can only mean

AtmosphericGhosts & HauntingsForbidden LoveYoung Adult
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Evernight

Claudia Gray · 336 pages

Bianca wants to escape. She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns B

Forbidden LoveGhosts & HauntingsGothic FictionYoung Adult
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Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 528 pages

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to pr

RomantasyForbidden LoveSlow Burn RomanceYoung Adult
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

Slow Burn RomanceAtmosphericGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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Our Strange Duet

Erin A. Craig

Christine Daaé is visited by the Opera Ghost. Inspired by “The Phantom of the Opera.” (Ages 12 and up)

Gothic FictionAtmosphericForbidden LoveGhosts & Hauntings
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Midnight Alley

Rachel Caine · 245 pages

Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

Slow Burn RomanceForbidden LoveGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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Phantasma

Kaylie Smith · 400 pages

**Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game: Stay alive. And don’t fall in love.** When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize—a single wish. Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine cha

Gothic FictionGhosts & HauntingsRomantasyAtmospheric
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Red Winter

Annette Marie · 346 pages

Emi is the kamigakari. In a few short months, her life as a mortal will end and her new existence as the human host of a goddess will begin. Carefully hidden from those who would destroy her, she has prepared her mind, body, and soul to unite with the goddess-and not once has she doubted her chosen fate. Shiro is a yokai, a spirit of the earth, an enemy of the goddess Emi will soon host. Mystery s

RomantasySlow Burn RomanceForbidden LoveAtmospheric
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Pure

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 329 pages

Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome - especially when Alexandria's "Other Half" is everywhere she goes.

Forbidden LoveSlow Burn RomanceYoung AdultFantasy
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Villette

Charlotte Bronte

Slow Burn RomanceGothic FictionForbidden LoveAtmospheric
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Ghost House

Alexandra Adornetto · 312 pages

Gothic FictionForbidden LoveGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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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

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmosphericParanormal
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A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid · 378 pages

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek · 336 pages

Gothic FictionRomantasySlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
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Nevermore

Kelly Creagh

When cheerleader Isobel Lanley is assigned to work with goth, Edgar Allen Poe fan Varen Nethers on an English project, she is swept into a horrific dream world that he has created in his mind.

Gothic FictionForbidden LoveAtmosphericYoung Adult
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