Sixteen-year-old Vivian is a werewolf living with her pack in suburban Maryland. She falls for Aiden, a human who is drawn to the supernatural, while the pack expects her to mate with Gabriel. A murder near town threatens to expose them all, and Vivian must choose between two worlds.
Hazel Grace, a teenager with terminal cancer, meets Augustus Waters at a support group. Their cautious romance grows through shared wit and a planned trip to Amsterdam, while both confront what they can and cannot control.
Ox Matheson grows up lonely in a small Oregon town until the Bennett family moves in down the road and he learns they are werewolves. He becomes part of their pack and falls for Joe, the youngest son. Years later a murder tears them apart, and Ox has to find his own strength when Joe returns.
Taryn Warner is a latent wolf shifter who cannot shift. Her father, a pack alpha, has arranged for her to mate a sadistic alpha she despises. Trey Coleman, alpha of the Phoenix Pack, needs allies against his uncle, so he offers her a deal: she will publicly claim to be his true mate, and he will protect her from the arranged mating. Their temporary bond soon becomes difficult to fake.
Misery Lark, a Vampyre outcast, agrees to marry Alpha werewolf Lowe Moreland to keep a fragile peace between their species. She has her own reason for entering Were territory, but neither expects the mate bond that forms between them or how much it complicates their alliance.
Nora Grey keeps her head down until her biology partner, the aloof Patch, starts appearing wherever she goes. He knows too much, says too little, and seems to want her for reasons he will not name. Falling for him means choosing a side in a fallen angel's ancient struggle.
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
On the day they both receive a call saying they will die within twenty-four hours, Mateo and Rufus meet through an app for people facing their last day. The two teenagers spend it together, trying to live a lifetime in the time they have left.
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
In 1987 El Paso, two Mexican American boys meet at a swimming pool and slowly become friends. Over long summers they share books, secrets and fears, and each begins to understand the love and longing he has been afraid to name.
Karou studies art in Prague and fills her sketchbooks with monsters, the same strange creatures who raised her. Running errands for her guardian, she does not know she stands between two warring peoples. When an angel named Akiva scorches the doors she travels through, her hidden life begins to fall apart.
Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf in existence, and she has walked away from the pack to build a quiet life in Toronto with a human boyfriend. When the pack needs her against a rogue uprising, she returns to the estate and to Clay, the man who changed her, and has to decide what she really wants.
While photographing covered bridges in Iowa, Robert Kincaid asks a farmer's wife, Francesca Johnson, for directions. With her family away for a few days, the two begin an affair that becomes the defining love of her life and forces her to weigh passion against duty.
Jake Marlowe has been a werewolf for two hundred years and is now the last of his kind, watched and hunted by a secret organisation. Weary and ready to die, he is given a reason to live that forces him back into a world of hunters, old bargains and appetites he has never controlled.
Mercy Thompson is a coyote shapeshifter who fixes cars in Washington State and keeps her distance from the local werewolf pack. A runaway teenage werewolf turns up at her shop, and his murder pulls her into pack politics, vampire deals and a hunt for whoever is preying on the supernatural community.
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
Janie Crawford tells her friend the story of her life: three marriages, a long search for love and independence, and the storm that changes everything. Set in the Black towns and farms of Florida, the novel follows her from a silent girl to a woman who speaks for herself.
Clay Jensen receives a box of tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who has taken her own life. As he follows her voice around town, she explains the thirteen reasons behind her decision, and Clay learns his own place in her story.
Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard student, and Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued Radcliffe student from a different background, meet and marry against his father's wishes. Their happiness is tested by illness and by the class divide they thought love could overcome.
Kitty Norville hosts a late-night radio show about the supernatural in Denver, and she is a werewolf hiding her nature from most of her listeners. When a caller's story draws the attention of her pack and a killer, Kitty has to decide how much of her life she is willing to show.
Melinda begins high school as an outcast after calling the police at a summer party, and barely speaks. Through art class and small moments she slowly confronts what happened to her that night and finds the words to name it.
Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster with no soul, which makes her immune to the supernatural. When a rogue vampire attacks her in steampunk London and a werewolf lord is sent to investigate, the two uncover a plot against the city's vampires and werewolves—and a mutual attraction neither of them expected.
Jack meets Kate at a party and falls for her, but months later she dies of sickle cell disease. He wakes up back at the party where they met and gets another chance to save her, then another, each choice changing the lives around him.
Angels have destroyed the modern world, and seventeen-year-old Penryn is trying to keep her mother and sister alive. When soldiers take her sister, Penryn captures a wounded angel and offers to help him in exchange for a rescue, an alliance that grows into something neither expected.
Start with “Blood and Chocolate”, “The Fault in Our Stars”, “Wolfsong”: they are the closest to “Shiver” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “Shiver” these are Werewolves, Coming of Age, Star-Crossed Lovers), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “The Fault in Our Stars”, “Wolfsong”, “Feral Sins”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
