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Twilight Readalikes for Young Adults

FICTION

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Jean “Jinx” Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she cats goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

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.

In 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.

Nineteen-year-old John Shaw, British soldier in World War I, makes a horrifying discovery that his regiment commander, Quincey Harker, is a descendant of Count Dracula. When Quincey appears in England and begins wooing John’s sister, John must stop him from continuing Dracula’s bloodline. Sequel: Bloodline: Reckoning

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.

Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler—a part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people full of angst. However, someone in school is using black magic to turn average Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it’s looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party.

Jane Jarvis, a senior at a Catholic girl's school in Providence, Rhode Island, tries to save her best friend by making a pact with a demon--in the form of a cupcake-eating, very friendly teenage girl.

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.

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.

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.

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls. Stephenie Meyer says: “Wings is a remarkable debut; the ingenuity of the mythology is matched only by the startling loveliness with which the story unfolds.”

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.

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.

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.

While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Main inn run by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly insolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

HORROR

After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is marked as a fledgling vampire and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampire.

At an elite vampire prep school in Manhattan, sixteen-year-old vampire socialite Lilith seeks revenge against Cally, a new student and "New Blood" Lilith holds responsible for the death of her close friend during a dispute that attracted heavily-armed Van Helsings.

Select teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. Sequels: Masquerade; Revelations

Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.

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.

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.

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.

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.

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.

When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad.

Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with a mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

The tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

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.

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London’s Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s subway system and consort with fairies, trolls, and other strange creatures.

Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate’s werewolf family and fight becoming werewolves themselves.

A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world.

In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hollow Hill, to be his bride and queen.

After a mysterious young wood carver with a horrifying secret arrives in her small Scottish town, Maddie gains his trust and his heart and seeks a way to save both him and her townspeople from an ancient evil.

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.

When seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling and guardian of the gate between the faerie Otherworld and the mortal realm. She also learns that her mother had otherworldly powers that she has passed on to Kelley.

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen. Her life, her love, and the summer all hang in the balance. Sequel: Wicked Eternity

Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.

Sabriel is the latest in a long line of powerful necromancers who can not only raise the dead but whose task it is to set the undead to rest.

The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.

Fifteen-year-old Tally’s eerily harmonious, post-apocalyptic society gives extreme makeovers to teens on their sixteenth birthdays, supposedly conferring equivalent evolutionary advantages to all. When a top-secret agency threatens to leave Tally ugly forever unless she spies on runaway teens, she agrees to infiltrate the Smoke, a shadowy colony of refugees from the “tyranny of physical perfection.”

Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

SOURCES

Twilight Readalikes for Mature Readers

FICTION

HORROR

HOR ACEV Acevedo, Mario. X-Rated Bloodsuckers; Jailbait Zombie; The Nymphos of Rocky Flats; The Undead Kama Sutra HOR ANSC Anscombe, Roderick. The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula HOR ARTH Arthur, Keri. The Darkest Kiss HOR BANK Banks, L.A. Vampire Huntress series; Crimson Moon series HOR BILL Billson, Anne. Suckers HOR BLOO Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction HOR BUTL Butler, Octavia E. Fledgling HOR CACE Cacek, P.D. Night Prayers HOR CLAR Clark, Simon. London Under Midnight HOR CLEG Clegg, Douglas. The Vampyricon series HOR COLE Cole, Kresley. Dark Needs at Night’s Edge HOR COPP Coppola, Francis Ford. Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Novel of the Film HOR DEDM Dedman, Stephen. Shadows Bite HOR ELRO Elrod, P.N. A Chill in the Blood HOR FING Fingerman, B.H. Bottomfeeder HOR HADD Haddock, Nancy. La Vida Vampire HOR HAMB Hambly, Barbara. Renfield: Slave of Dracula HOR HAMI Hamilton, Laurell K. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series HOR HARR Harrison, Kim. Rachel Morgan Hollows series HOR HART Hart, Raven. The Savannah Vampires series HOR HOLL Holland, Tom. Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron; Slave of My Thirst HOR HORR The Horror Writers Association Presents Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories HOR HUBB Hubbard, Susan. The Society of S; The Year of Disappearances HOR HUNT Hunt, Lee. The Vampire of New York HOR HUST Huston, Charlie. Joe Pitt series HOR IVY Ivy, Alexandra. Embrace the Darkness HOR JEFF Jefferson, Jemiah. Fiend HOR KALO Kalogridis, Jeanne. Covenant with the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul HOR KENY Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Dark-Hunter series HOR KING King, Stephen. Salem’s Lot HOR KIRA Kiraly, Marie. Mina: The Dracula Story Continues HOR KOST, LARGE TYPE HOR KOST, CASBOOK HOR KOST, CDBOOK HOR KOST Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian HOR LUCA Lucas, Tim. The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula HOR LUKY Lukyanenko, Sergei. The Watch series HOR LUML Lumley, Brian. The Necrosope series HOR MANY Harris, Charlaine, et al. Many Bloody Returns HOR MART Martinez, Lee. Gil’s All Fright Diner HOR MAST Masterton, Graham. Manitou Blood HOR MATH, CDBOOK HOR MATH Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend: And Other Stories HOR MIGN Mignola, Michael. Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire HOR MITC Mitchell, Mary Ann. In the Name of the Vampire; Tainted Blood HOR NEWM Newman, Kim. The Bloody Red Baron HOR PARK Parker, Lara. The Salem Branch HOR PHOE Phoenix, Adrian. A Rush of Wings HOR RARD Rardin, Jennifer. The Jaz Parks series HOR RICE Rice, Anne. Chronicles of the Vampire series; New Tales of the Vampire series HOR RICH Richardson, Kat. Greywalker HOR ROMK Romkey, Michael. The London Vampire Panic; Vampire Hunter; The Vampire Papers; The Vampire Virus; The Vampire’s Violin; American Gothic: A Vampire Story; I, Vampire HOR RUGG Ruggiero, Tony. From the Declassified Files of Team of Darkness: Operation—Save the Innocent; Operation—Immortal Servitude HOR SMIT Smith-Ready, Jeri. Wicked Game HOR STAB Stableford, Brian. The Empire of Fear; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires HOR STEI Stein, Jeanne C. The Watcher HOR STOK, CDBOOK HOR STOK, Stoker, Bram. Dracula HOR STOK The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion: 10 Stories by the author of Dracula HOR STRI Strieber, Whitley. The Hunger; The Last Vampire; Lilith’s Dream HOR VAUG Vaughn, Carrie. Kitty and the Silver Bullet HOR WELL Wellington, David. 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale; Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale; 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale HOR YARB Yarbro, Chelsea. Saint-Germain Cycle series

MYSTERY

MYS ATHE, LARGE PRINT MYS ATHE Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter MYS ESTL, NetLibrary Estleman, Loren D. Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula: or, The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count

MYS HARR  Harris, Charlaine.  Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series

1. Dead Until Dark 2. Living Dead in Dallas 3. Club Dead 4. Dead to the World 5. Dead as a Doornail 6. Definitely Dead 7. All Together Dead 8. From Dead to Worse 9. Dead and Gone [Note: The HBO series “True Blood” is (loosely) based on these novels.] MYS JAME James, Dean. Simon Kirby-Jones series MYS THUR Thurlo, David and Aimee. Lee Nez series MYS WILS Wilson, Barbara. Trouble in Transylvania

ROMANCE

ROM ASHL Ashley, Jennifer. The Calling ROM BANG Bangs, Nina. Mackenzie Vampires series ROM BARD Bardsley, Michele. Wait Till Your Vampire Gets Home ROM BRET Bretton, Barbara. Casting Spells ROM DAVI Davidson, Mary Janice. The Betsy Taylor Undead series ROM DEAD Robb, J.D., et al. Dead of Night ROM FEEH Feehan, Christine. The Dark series ROM GRAH Graham, Heather. Blood Red; Kiss of Darkness (LARGE TYPE ROM GRAH only) ROM HARP Harper, Molly. Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs ROM KRIN Krinard, Susan. Prince of Dreams ROM MACA MacAlister, Katie. The Dark Ones series; Aisling Grey, Guardian series ROM MCCA McCarthy, Erin. Bit the Jackpot ROM MEDE Medeiros, Teresa. After Midnight ROM MILL Miller, Linda Lael. Vampire Romance series ROM ROBE, LARGE TYPE ROM ROBE Roberts, Nora. Circle Trilogy: Morrigan’s Cross; Dance of the Gods; Valley of Silence ROM ROWE Rowen, Michelle. Immortality Bites series ROM SAND Sands, Lynsay. The Rogue Hunter ROM SHAY Shayne, Maggie. Thicker Than Water ROM SPAR Sparks, Kerrelyn. Vampire series ROM SQUI Squires, Susan. One With the Shadows ROM WARD Ward , J.R. The Black Dagger Brotherhood series

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY