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Twilight Readalikes for Young Adults

FICTION

Anderson, M. T. Thirsty

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.

Bray, Libba. 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.

Cabot, Meg. Jinx

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.

Cabot, Meg. Avalon High

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.

Cabot, Meg. The 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.

Caine, Rachel. The Morganville Vampires series

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.

Cary, Kate. Bloodline

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

Clare, Cassandra. The Mortal Instruments series

Flinn, Alex. 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.

Jay, Stacey. You Are So Undead to Me

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.

Johnson, Maureen. Devilish

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.

Jones, Carrie. 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.

Leavitt, Martine. 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.

Maxwell, Katie. 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.

Pike, Aprilynne. Wings

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.”

Smith, Cynthia Leitch. 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.

Vande Velde, Vivian. 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.

Whitcomb, Laura. 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.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight

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

YA HOR ARMS Armstrong, Kelley. Darkest Powers series 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. 1. Summoning 2. The Awakening

YA HOR ATWA Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon in My View 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.

YA HOR CAST Cast, P.C. House of Night series 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. 1. Marked 2. Betrayed 3. Chosen 4. Untamed 5. Hunted

YA HOR COLL Collins, Nancy A. Vamps series 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. 1. The Vamps 2. Night Life 3. After Dark

YA HOR DELA De La Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods 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

YA HOR FANT Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side 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.

YA HOR GRAY Gray, Claudia. Evernight 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. Sequel: Stargazer

YA HOR KLAU, CASBOOK YA FIC KLAU Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood & 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. The Silver Kiss YA HOR KLAU only A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.

YA HOR MEAD Mead, Richelle. 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. 1. Vampire Academy 2. Frostbite 3. Shadow Kiss

YA HOR NOEL Noël, Alyson. Evermore 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.

YA HOR ROBA Robar, Serena. Braced2Bite series: Braced2Bite; Fangs4Freaks; Dating4Demons 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.

YA HOR SCHR Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses series: Vampire Kisses; Vampire Kisses: The Beginning (includes Vampire Kisses; Kissing Coffins; Vampireville); Dance with a Vampire 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.

YA HOR SMIT Smith, L.J. The Vampire Diaries series: The Awakening; The Struggle; The Fury; Dark Reunion The tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

Night World; NightWorld No. 2 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.

YA HOR WEST Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

YA HOR WOOD Wooding, Chris. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray 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

YA SF/FAN BLAC Black, Holly. Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie 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. Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale 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.

YA SF/FAN COLE Cole, Stephen. The Wereling Trilogy: Wounded; Prey; Resurrection Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate’s werewolf family and fight becoming werewolves themselves.

YA SF/FAN CROG Croggon, Alison. Pellinor series 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. 1. The Naming 2. The Riddle 3. The Crow 4. The Singing

YA SF/FAN DUNK Dunkle, Clare B. The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy: The Hollow Kingdom; Close Kin; In the Coils of the Snake 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. By These Ten Bones 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.

YA SF/FAN CASH Cashore, Kristin. Graceling 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.

YA SF/FAN JONE Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path 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.

YA SF/FAN LIVI Livingston, Lesley. Wondrous Strange 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.

YA SF/FAN MARR Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely 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

YA SF/FAN MARI Marillier, Juliet. Wildwood Dancing 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.

CASBOOK YA SF/FAN NIX Nix, Garth. Sabriel 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.


YA SF/FAN PIER Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel trilogy: Darkangel; A Gathering of Gargoyles; The Pearl of the Soul of the World 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.

YA SF/FAN WEST, PLAYAWAY YA SF/FAN WEST Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies 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.” Sequels: The Pretties; The Specials YA SF/FAN WEST Midnighters series 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. 1. Secret Hour 2. Touching Darkness 3. Blue Noon

THE TWILIGHT SAGA by Stephenie Meyer 1. Twilight 2. New Moon 3. Eclipse 4. Breaking Dawn

SEE ALSO: the bibliography “If You Like the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyers and you’re an adult, try…”

SOURCES Arapahoe Library District. http://teens.arapahoelibraries.org/go2/cfm?pid=7642 (accessed 6 July 2009) Gillette, John. Young Adult Librarian, Bettendorf Public Library. Haverhill Public Library Teen Department. Twilight Series Readalikes by Stephenie Meyer http://www.haverhillpl.org/Teen/Books (accessed 7 July 2009). Hendrickson, Kathy. Lakeview Branch Library (Peoria, Ill.) “Vampire Romance: A Selected Reading List.” Livingston Parish Library Young Adult Services Department. http://lplteenspot.wordpress.com/2--7/12/14/if-you- like-stephenie-meyer/ (accessed 6 July 2009) Memphis Public Library & Information Center. http://memphisreads.blogspot.com/2009/03/read-likes-for-twilight- by-stephenie.html (accessed 7 July 2009). Winter Park Public Library. If you liked Twilight, try these… http://www.wppl.org/teens/readnext_readalikes_meyer.htm (accessed 7 July 2009)

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