Twilight Read-alikes
| Hawksong | Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | YA F Atwater | | In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shape-shifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other. | | In the Forests of the Night | Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | YA F Atwater | | Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. | | Midnight Predator | Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | YA F Atwater | | Turqoise Draka, a vampire hunter, is hired to kill the evil vampire Jeshikah. To enter his realm she must disguise herself as the human slave of Jaguar, a vampire and slave owner who is tormented by his own past. Will Jaguar release the humanity Turqoise long ago locked away? | | A Great and Terrible Beauty | Bray, Libba | YA F Bray | | 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. | | Faerie Wars | Brennan, Harbie | YA F Brennan | | Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night. | | Jinx | Cabot, Meg | YA F Cabot | | 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 casts 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. | | City of Bones | Clare, Cassandra | YA F Clare | | Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed. | | Wounded | Cole, Stephen | YA F Cole | | Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure. | | The Naming | Croggon, Alison | YA F Croggon | | The story 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. | | Blue Bloods | De la Cruz, Melissa | YA F De la Cruz | | Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. | | By These Ten Bones | Dunkle, Clare B. | YA F Dunkle | | 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 her townspeople from an ancient evil. | | The Hollow Kingdom | Dunkle, Clare B. | YA F Dunkle | | 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, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. | | Beastly | Flinn, Alex | YA F Flinn | | 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. | | Evernight | Gray, Claudia | YA F Gray | | Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. | | Look for Me By Moonlight | Hahn, Mary Downing | YA F Hahn | | While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest. | | Book of a Thousand Days | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale | | Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids. | | Owl in Love | Kindl, Patricia | YA F Kindl | | A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform herself into an owl, has a crush on her science teacher which leads her into interesting new relationships with both humans and owls. | | Blood and Chocolate | Klause, Annette | YA F Klause | | 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 | Klause, Annette | YA F Klause | | A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. | | Keturah and Lord Death | Leavitt, Martine | YA F Leavitt | | 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. | | Wicked Lovely | Marr, Melissa | YA F Marr | | 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 Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. | | Sabriel | Nix, Garth | YA F Nix | | Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. | | Darkangel | Pierce, Meredith Ann | YA F Pierce | | 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. | | Vampire Kisses | Schreiber, Ellen | YA F Schreibe | | Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. | | Cirque du Freak | Shan, Darren | YA F Shan | | Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. | | Everlost | Shusterman, Neal | YA F Shusterm | | When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free. | | Tantalize | Smith, Cynthia Leitich | YA F Smith | | 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. | | Killer's Kiss | Stine, R.L. | YA F Stine | | Rivals throughout their whole lives for the best grades, friends, and boys, Delia and Karina both set their sights on the attractive Vincent, and Karina decides that if she cannot have him, no one will. | | Companions of the Night | Vande Velde, Vivian | YA F Vande Velde | | 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. | | Peeps | Westerfeld, Scott | YA F Westerfe | | Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. | | The Secret Hour | Westerfeld, Scott | YA F Westerfe | | 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 | | The Haunting of Alaizabel Clay | Wooding, Chris | YA F Wooding | | 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. | | Poison | Wooding, Chris | YA F Wooding | | When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she discovers she must confront a surprising destiny. |
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