Libba
Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
After the
suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma
returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing
school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to
see into the spirit world.
Further reading:
Rebel Angels,
The Sweet Far Thing |
Meg
Cabot
Mediator
series
Sixteen-year-old
Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead, and she
hopes her move to California will be a fresh start, but a hot ghost
named Jesse haunts her bedroom and another ghost is bent on
vengeance at school. |
Rachel
Caine
Morganville Vampires seriesIn
Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under
the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her
current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new
roommates are vampires. |
P.
C. Cast
House of Night series
Sixteen-year-old
Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampyre and joins the House of
Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre. |
Cassandra
Clare
Mortal Instruments series
Suddenly able to
see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them
to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into
this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is
almost killed by a monster.
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Melissa
de la Cruz
Blue Bloods
series
Select teenagers
from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent
families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
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Rosemary
Clement-Moore
Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil series
Prom Dates From Hell
-- High school senior and yearbook
photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to the
prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has
no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks,
cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate.
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Rosemary
Clement-Moore
The
Splendor Falls
Dark secrets
linking two Alabama families and their Welsh ancestors slowly come
to light when seventeen-year-old Sylvie, whose promising ballet
career has come to a sudden end, spends a month with a cousin she
barely knows in her father's ancestral home. |
Alex Flinn
Beastly
A modern retelling
of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a
vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster
and must find true love before he can return to his human form. |
Kami
Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Caster Chronicles
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. |
Claudia
Gray
Evernight
series
Sixteen-year-old
Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds
herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten
to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
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Rachel
Hawthorne
Dark Guardian series
While working as a
wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were
killed twelve years earlier, seventeen-year-old Kayla is powerfully
drawn to Lucas, who she learns is her appointed guardian--and much
more--as she discovers her true identity and destiny.
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Carrie
Jones
Need
Depressed after
the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live
with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell
Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that
only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
Further reading:
Captivate |
Lauren
Kate
Fallen series
Seventeen-year-old
Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is
real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named
Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his
clutches. |
Annette
Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for
a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her
packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she
belongs and with whom.
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Becca
Fitzpatrick
Hush
series
High school
sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships,
but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her
school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite
warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own
instincts.
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Martine
Leavitt Keturah
and Lord Death
When Lord Death comes to claim
sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she
charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve
in which to seek her one true love.
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Katie
Maxwell
Got Fangs?
Francesca can read
minds by touch, but when she joins a psychic fair in Hungary, she
falls in love with Benedikt, a vampire, who must come to her aid
after she starts investigating a series of thefts among the other
employees of the fair.
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Richelle
Mead
Vampire Academy
series
Two years after a
horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her
guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's
Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical
training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques,
gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. |
Stephenie
Meyer
The Host
The earth has been
invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts
while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has
succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie
Stryder's body didn't expect her to refuse to relinquish possession
of her mind. |
Stephenie
Meyer
New Moon
When the Cullens,
including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing
that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old
Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is
drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways. Sequel to Twilight.
Further reading:
Eclipse,
Breaking Dawn |
Alyson
Noël The
Immortals series
Since the car
accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever
can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her
way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic
teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. |
Ellen
Schreiber
Vampire Kisses
series
The mansion on top
of Benson Hill has been empty and boarded up for years. But a new
family has moved in. A family that never ventures out during the
day. Who are these creepy people, especially the handsome, dark, and
elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are they? Could the town
gossip actually be true? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly
covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and
Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth. |
Cynthia
Leitich Smith
Tantalize
When multiple
murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her
family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned
Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a
werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
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L.J.
Smith
Night World
Vampires,
werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our
knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society
with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of
the Night World.
Further reading:
Night World No. 2,
Night World No. 3 |
L.J.
Smith
Vampire Diaries
series
Collected are
volumes one through four of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two
vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them. |
L.J.
Smith
Vampire Diaries, The Return series
After returning
from the afterlife, Elena is forced to battle an ancient evil when
Stefan, her vampire boyfriend, goes missing. |
Maggie
Stiefvater
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
On the day of an
important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and
nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and
enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the
mysteries and dangers of the faerie world.
Further
reading:
Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie |
Maggie
Stiefvater
Shiver
In all the years
she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has
been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his
turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Further reading:
Linger |
Vivian
Vande Velde
Companions of the Night
When
sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group
of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some
bizarre and dangerous choices.
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Laura
Whitcomb
A Certain Slant of Light
After benignly
haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy
who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their
pasts.
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