Books like “Cemetery Boys”

What to read after “Cemetery Boys” by Aiden Thomas: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forced Proximity
Lou is a witch hiding in a city where the church hunts her kind. Reid is a captain of the witch hunters and a devoted servant of that church. When a reckless act binds them in a union neither wanted, both must choose between faith, duty and a feeling they were raised to despise.
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The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Paranormal fiction”
Blue has grown up in a house of psychics and is warned she will cause her true love's death. Drawn into the search for a lost Welsh king with a group of boys from a prestigious school, she finds her life tangled with theirs and with their dangerous families.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
From the same world: “Ghost Story”
- Ghost Story
After her mother's death, Kennedy Waters is pulled into a world of ghosts and demons when she learns her family belonged to the Legion, a secret society sworn to fight them. With three brothers as her allies, she must help close a threat that killed her mother and is still hunting her.
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Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2024
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Rune is the last of her kind, hiding her magic while playing the flirtatious socialite. By day she courts the witch hunters; by night she works against them. Then she sets her sights on Gideon, a loyal hunter with a secret of his own, and the lies between them grow harder to keep.
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman · 2008
From the same world: “Ghost Story”
After his family is murdered, a toddler wanders into a graveyard, where its ghostly residents adopt and raise him as Nobody Owens. He grows up among the dead while the killer who took his family is still searching for him.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec · 2021
From the same world: “Witches”
Angrboda is a witch burned three times for refusing to reveal the future. She hides in a forest and builds a quiet life until Loki finds her, and their children draw the eyes of the gods. A prophecy turns every small happiness into a countdown.
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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Marra, a shy convent-raised princess, learns that no one will save her sister from a cruel prince -- so she decides to do it herself. Three impossible tasks, a gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother and a demon-possessed chicken later, she sets out to stop a king.
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Northern Lights
Philip Pullman · 1995
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Coming of Age
Lyra Belacqua lives among the scholars of Oxford in a world where every person has an animal companion called a daemon. When children begin to disappear, she travels north with a mysterious instrument and a fierce armored bear to uncover a conspiracy about the substance called Dust.
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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
With the gods at war, two young journalists compete for the same columnist post at a dying newspaper. Iris hides her family's troubles, and Roman, her rival, seems to have everything. When anonymous letters begin to pass between them, neither suspects who is writing on the other side.