9 of the best paranormal book recommendations

If there’s one type of book I’ve always loved, it’s paranormal books. There’s always something so much fun about them and if I had to choose one type of book ro read for the rest of my life… I think it would actually be paranormal books. Here are 9 recommendations! 

The Invocations – Krystal Sutherland

Genres/Tropes: young adult, thriller, serial killer

A supernatural serial killer who leaves no evidence is killing young witches.

Zara’s sister was one of the victims and she’s not willing to let her sister go that easily – even if it means learning necromancy.

Jude is the daughter of a billionaire who made a bad deal with a demon and now her soul is slowly turning necrotic.

Emer is the daughter of a witch who sells spells to desperate young women in exchange for part of their souls, and she’s the solution to both of their problems.

They come together to attempt to stop the serial killer before they end up on his hit list.

Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake

Genres/Tropes: young adult, mystery, haunted house

Cas Lowood travels the country with his mother following legends and local folklore in order to find and kill ghosts. He’s just arrived at a small town where locals are scared of a ghost called Anna Dressed in Blood: the ghost of a teenage girl that haunts her former home dressed in the clothes she was brutally murdered in.

She kills every single person that enters her home… except for Cas.

One Last Breath – Ginny Myers Sain

Genres/Tropes: young adult, romance, small town, mystery

Tru has grown up in Mount Orange, Florida, a small town famous for 2 things: the beautiful freshwater springs that are perfect for free diving, and a gruesome unsolved double murder that happened twenty years ago. Bailey and Celeste were brutally murdered and 20 years on the police still have no idea what happened or who did it.

Tru has always felt an odd connection to the case, and this isn’t helped by the murder of her sister. Tru is spending her summer out at the springs with her friends when a strange girl called Rio arrives in town determined to find out what happened to Bailey and Celeste. Tru and Rio decide to try to investigate the case for themselves and quickly grow very close… but as they dig into the past they realise that someone might be stalking them. Has the killer come back? Or were they there all along?

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me – Jamison Shea

Genres/Tropes: young adult, ballet

Laure is a black ballerina, constantly overlooked for her white counterparts even though she knows she’s the best. To level the playing field, she ventures deep into the Paris Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood which grants her the influence and adoration she’s always dreamed of.

But as she begins to surpass her peers, leaving broken bodies behind her, she discovers she’s not the only monster around and her vicious desires have made her the perfect target for slaughter.

How to Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

Genres/Tropes: adult, haunted house, creepy dolls

Louise finds out that her parents have unexpectedly died in a horrific car crash, and she can’t imagine anything worse than returning to her hometown to sort everything out and see her brother, Mark.

But, she has to so she leaves her young daughter with her ex and heads to Charleston. But, soon after arriving she discovers that her parents left every single thing they own to Mark, except for the hundreds of creepy dolls and puppets lovingly made by her mother which were left to Louise.

In a moment of pettiness, she heads to her parents house and plans to spend as long as she can collecting up the dolls and puppets to delay the sale of her parents house for as long as possible.

But when she’s staying at the house, she can’t help but notice that some of the dolls end up in unusual places. She becomes convinced that her brother is moving the puppets around to scare her… but is he?

Wylding Hall – Elizabeth Hand

Genres/Tropes: adult, haunted house, historical

The young members of a folk band decide to spend a few months in an old mansion, Wylding Hall, where they record an album that will come to make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: the group’s lead singer disappears within the mansion and is never heard from again.

Years later, the group meets with a documentary filmmaker to discuss what actually happened all those years ago.

If I Have to Be Haunted – Miranda Sun

Genres/Tropes: young adult, romance, adventure, rivals to lovers

Cara Tang has always done her best to be the perfect daughter and that includes trying to ignore all of the ghosts that she sees every single day. But one day, Cara stumbles across the body of her school rival, Zach, and accidentally talks to his ghost.

After consulting her ghost-grandmother, they learn that he was most likely killed by a magical snake and they can bring him back if they find the cure within a week. So Cara and Zach head off on a Percy Jackson-style quest through a magical world full of monsters and find the cure together.

The Revelry – Katherine Webber

Genres/Tropes: young adult, romance, small town

Once a year, the Revelry occurs in the woods outside Ember Grove. It’s an exclusive and mysterious party that happens at the end of the school year and everyone knows that you can’t go without an invitation. Once you go, you’re sworn to secrecy.

But Bitsy lets her friend convince her to sneak into the party and the next morning she can’t remember anything about it. But ever since the party, her life begins to unravel and she seems to have nothing but bad luck.

Vampires of El Norte – Isabel Canas

Genres/Tropes: adult, romance, historical

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a lot about monsters – her home has long been threatened by the Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister is lurking in the night and one night, Nena was attacked. Believing she was dead and scared that he would be blamed, her best friend Nestor ran away and returns 9 years only to find that she is still alive.

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