Clicking on the book title will take you to the review/mini-review if I have one. Also, see my note about reading and age appropriate levels at the bottom of the list.
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
(5.9) (MG) (family secrets, ghosts, England, war, 1600’s)
After
the End by Amy Plum (series)
(5.5/5.6)
(UG) (family relationships, secrets, supernatural abilities, romance)
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater *
(6.8) (UG) (family, miracles, tall tales)
Banished by Sophie Littlefield
(5.5)
(UG) (family relationships & secrets, extraordinary abilities, action)
Behold the Bones by Natalie C. Parker
(/) (UG) (friendship, mystery,
family secrets, magic, ghosts)
Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
(/) (MG+) (brothers and sisters, special abilities, wild west, Scandanavian immigrants)
Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker
(5.4) (UG) (brothers & sisters,
Louisiana, folklore, magic, spirits, mystery)
Between
the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve
Tucholke
(4.5)
(UG) (paranormal abilities)
Blackwood by Gwenda Bond
(/)
(MG+) (Roanoke, mystery, magic, family secrets, cults)
Beyond:
a Ghost Story by Graham McNamee
(5.1)
(UG) (paranormal, suicide, friendship)
Blackout
by Robison Wells
(5.2)
(teenagers, paranormal abilities, terrorism)
Blink
Once
by Cylin Busby
(4.7)
(UG) (comas, mystery)
Bone
Gap by Laura Ruby
(4.9)
(UG) (mystery, supernatural, abductions, family relationships)
Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish
(4.8)
(MG) (ghosts, secrets, special abilities)
Bruiser
by Neal Shusterman
(5.5)
(UG) (family, friendship, child abuse, unexplained phenomenon, romance)
Circle
of Secrets by Kimberly Griffiths Little
(5.0)
(MG+) (Louisiana, family secrets, mystery, mothers and daughters)
Conjured by Sarah Beth Durst
(4.5)
(MG+) (paranormal abilities, magic, inter-dimensional travel, serial killers)
Crash
by Lisa McMann (series)
(4.9)
(MG+) (paranormal abilities, family relationships, romance, thriller/suspense, *)
Cryer’s
Cross by Lisa McMann
(3.9)
(UG) (OCD, mystery, secrets, ghosts, disappearances)
Death
Watch
by Ari Berk (series)
(6.3/5.7/5.6)
(UG) (family, secrets, ghosts)
Doll
Bones by Holly Black
(5.4)
(MG) (friendship, mysteries, magic)
Dull Boy by Sarah Cross
(5.1) (MG+) (special abilities, friendship, good vs evil)
Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen
(5.4)
(MG+) (friendship, humor, demons)
Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
(5.8)
(UG) (magic, fiends, friendship, family, secrets)
Flip by Martyn Bedford
(UG)
(dead & undead, supernatural contracts, mystery)
Guardian
of the Dead by Karen Healey
(5.3)
(New Zealand, fairies, mythology)
House of Ivy & Sorrow by Natalie Whipple
(/)
(MG+) (witches, family bonds, secrets, romance)
(MG+)
(Salem, family secrets, magic, romance, ghosts)
I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells
(6.0) (UG) (serial killers, obsessions, paranormal/supernatural)
In
Darkness by Nick Lake
(5.6)
(UG) (Haiti, slave rebellion, voodoo, gang violence, poverty, family)
Insanity by Susan Vaught
(5.3)
(MG+) (asylums, hauntings, supernatural abilities)
Into the Grey by Celine Kiernan
(MG+)
(brothers, twins, ghosts, WWI, family relationships)
Invisibility
by Andrea Cremer
(4.2)
(MG+) (paranormal abilities/magic, family secrets, romance)
Made
for You by Melissa Marr
(4.9)
(UG) (paranormal abilities, murder, romance)
Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
(5.7)
(MG) (orphans, paranormal abilities)
Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre (series)
(5.3)
(MG+) (paranormal/supernatural, scifi/fantasy, romance)
Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
(4.8)
(MG+) (paranormal abilities, invisibility, assassins, action, romance)
Picture
the Dead by Adele Griffin
(5.4) (MG+) (Victorian
era, prophecies, twins, paranormal/supernatural, good vs. evil)
Pulse
by Patrick Carman
(5.9)
(MG+) (friendship, dystopian, special abilities)
Reawakened by Colleen Houk
(6.0)
(MG+) (ancient Egyptian deities, secret societies, magic, adventure)
Repossessed
by A. M. Jenkins
(4.8)
(UG) (demon possession, humor)
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace *
(4.9)
(MG+) (death, mystery, cults, supernatural)
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
(4.3)
(UG) (dystopian, paranormal abilities, rebellions, romance)
Shutter by Courtney Alameda
(MG+) (ghosts, ghost hunting, paranormal abilities, fathers & daughters)
Sidekicked by John Anderson *
(5.4) (MG) (superhero sidekicks, paranormal abilities, friendship)
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle *
(/)
(UG) (magic, family secrets, family relationships, friendship, *)
Splendors
and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
(5.1)
(MG) (orphans, mystery, kidnapping, magic)
Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton *
(/) (UG) (magic, bargains, witches,
family, friendship, sacrifice, love triangles, secrets, *)
(/)
(UG) (supernatural, mystery, music conservatories, romance)
Ten Thousand Charms by Leander Watts
(4.2) (MG) (paranormal, 1800’s,
American frontier, Gothic)
Tennyson by Leslie M. M. Blume
(5.1)
(MG) (mothers and daughters, family secrets, Great Depression, the South, paranormal happenings)
The
Archived
by Victoria Schwab
(4.7/5.2)
(UG) (death, ghosts, family, friendship/romance)
The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
(/) (UG) (Mara Dyer series, paranormal abilities, mystery, death, romance, *)
The
Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
(6.8) (UG) (murder, psychic abilities, romance,
thriller/suspense)
The
Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
(4.7) (MG+) (friendship, mystery, magic)
The
Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
(5.6)
(MG+) (Victorian era, hypnotism, fathers & daughters, women’s suffrage)
The
Dark Between by Sonia Gensler
(5.4)
(UG) (ghosts, Victorian era, murder, romance)
The
Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick
(4.9)
(MG+) (friendship, mystery, magic)
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (series)
(5.7/5.9/5.9/5.8)
(UG) (post-pandemic, friendship, adventure, survival, special abilities)
The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles
(5.3)
(UG) (romance, thrillers/suspense, family relationships, caving)
(4.8)
(UG) (The Fall of the House of Usher, twins, gothic)
The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb
(5.8) (MG+) (Russian Revolution, the
afterlife, spirits)
The Girl in Between by Sarah Carroll
(4.0)
(MG+) (mothers & daughters, homelessness, ghosts, regret)
(/)
(UG) (friendship, magic, siblings, secrets)
The
Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman *
(5.1)
(MG) (orphans, vampires, family, ghosts, mystery)
The
Girl From the Well by Rin Cupeco
(6.3) (UG)
(ghosts, possession, revenge, mystery)
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
(7.1)
(mystery, murder, hauntings, evil, Victorian era)
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
(5.2)
(MG+) (ghosts, possession, mothers & daughters)
(/)
(UG) (paranormal/supernatural/science fiction/urban fantasy, romance)
The
House by Christina Lauren
(6.0) (UG)
(hauntings, mystery, abandonment, romance)
The
Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
(4.5)
(MG) (WWI, premonitions)
The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette
(MG+)
(orphans, mystery, murder, ghosts)
(/)
(UG) (paranormal abilities, murder, family secrets, romance, cults)
The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
(/) (UG) (family relationships, secrets,
paranormal/supernatural, murder mystery)
The
Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
(4.8)
(MG) (curses, friendship, supernatural)
The
Path of Names
by Ari Goelman
(4.5) (MG+) (friendship, Jewish mysticism, mystery)
The
Poison Diaries by Maryrose Wood
(5.1)
(UG) (1700’s, England, apothecaries, fathers & daughters, mystery, romance)
(5.4/5.0/5.1/5.7)
(UG) (prophecies, friendship, magic, mystery, *)
(5.2)
(UG) (Changelings, family, friendship, identity)
The
Seer of Shadows by Avi
(5.2)
(1800’s, photography, ghosts)
The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff
(5.2) (MG) (supernatural creatures, friendship, magic)
The Suffering Tree by Elle Cosimano
(UG) (magic, cutting, curses, family relationships, romance)
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (series)
The Suffering Tree by Elle Cosimano
(UG) (magic, cutting, curses, family relationships, romance)
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Horner Jacobs
(4.1)
(MG+) (juvenile delinquents, superpowers, friendship, survival)
(4.3)
(UG) (paranormal abilities, mystery, death, romance)
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
(/)
(UG) (witchcraft, murder, romance, mystery)
(4.0) (UG) (twins, brothers, grief, mystery/secrets, supernatural)
This
Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel (series)
(4.9/5.0)
(UG) (Frankenstein, 1700’s, twins, romance, mystery, Gothic)
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (series)
(5.4/5.8) (MG+) (monsters, identity, family relationships)
(5.0)
(MG+) (immortality, death, mystery, orphans, friendship)
Touched
by Cyn Balog *
(MG+)
(butterfly effect, spells)
Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer
(4.9) (UG) (malevolent spirits, action/adventure,
mystery, secret societies)
V is for Villain by Peter Moore
(4.8) (MG+)
(special abilities, heroes & villains, family, friendship, secrets)
Vicious
by Victoria Schwab
(/)
(UG) (heroes & villians, special abilities, friendship, betrayal)
Whisper
by
Phoebe Kitanidis
(4.7)
(UG) (special abilities, family relationships, secrets, romance)
Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan (series)
(?) (UG) (magic, war, orphans, gods, secrets, intrigue)(Age appropriate level denotes the youngest readers that the book is appropriate for. That doesn't mean that older readers will not enjoy the book!)
* = books that I thought were GREAT
UG = upper grades (contain sex, drugs, and/or very graphic violence; deal with mature subject matter such as rape, prostitution, child abuse, etc. )
MG+ = junior high (may contain some profanity or sexual references; may deal with subject matter too mature for younger audiences)
MG = 4th through 6th grades (nothing inappropriate for children, but may not keep the interest of younger readers)
MG- = all ages (perfect for bedtime stories or read-alouds, or for precocious readers in the lower grades)
* = LGBTQ themes - characters, situations, or references to same-sex couples
Books included in this list are all ones that I have read myself and given a rating of at least 3 out of 5 Stars (why would I recommend anything less?) When a book is part of a series, only the first title is listed, but the reading level for all books in the series is shown. Lists will be updated periodically as I read new books.
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