With paranormal reads so popular for all ages, it can be difficult to narrow down one’s choices when reaching for a new read. Whether you’re a fan or not, the young adult genre has a ton to offer the lover of the paranormal. If you’re looking for a good place to start, check out these 10 paranormal books for young adults (or anyone, really).
10. Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
The past winter was beyond hard for Amanda Verner. Her mother passed away during childbirth, cabin fever took hold of her and she started to see paranormal, violent, and bloody visions. The new baby cries and cries and cries and cries with no end in sight. And her fling that was supposed to help her forget her pain ended in pregnancy.
So when the family decides to move from their mountain cabin down into an abandoned cabin in the prairie, she is hoping to find a new life and a solution to her sin. But that all comes crashing down when they arrive at their new cabin. It is covered in blood and has an eerie presence that Amanda can’t quite put her finger on.
9. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Following the life of a paranormal killer Cas Lowood, this book will take you on a ghost hunt unlike any other. Cas can see the dead and has taken up the same line of work as his late father – he kills them. When Cas, his witchy mother, and their cat (who has a knack for sniffing out pesky spirits) start looking into a rumor about a ghost named Anna dressed in blood, they have no idea what they’re about to encounter.
8. The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
In South America, at the very tip of the continent lays a finishing house. Isolated from anything and everything this place is a perfect escape. And that’s exactly what Mavi wants to do. She is running away from the military regime that killed her mother and is looking for her. So when she hears of this place she is ready to make it her home. Despite the paranormal legends that surround this place, she is determined to overcome it. She embraces how strange it is, and turns it into a school for girls.
Then one day a student of hers goes missing. To find her Mavi has to dive into the paranormal side of this finishing school. Facing a dark side that is ready to claim lives, Mavi has her work cut out for her if she is going to save her girls and herself.
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7. I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson & John Jennings (Illustrators)
Alfonso Jones just got his dream role in his school play. He is going to play Hamlet in the school’s hip-hop version of the play. It’s perfect for him. He is ready for anything, including telling his best friend how he feels about her. With his spirits high, he decides it’s time to buy his very first suit. But when an off-duty police officer mistakes the clothing hanger for a handgun, everything changes in an instant.
Alfonso Jones wakes up in the afterlife, riding a train to the end with other victims of police violence. Together the ghosts on this paranormal train try to help him come to terms with what happened to him. In the land of the living, his family has to deal with the injustice of what happened and how it alters their lives forever.
6. Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery by Mary Amato
Lucy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetary. The only thing she knows is that this is the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, but she has no idea how she died. She is determined to find out but she is stopped. The dead have rules after all, and the inhabitants of the graveyard make sure she knows this because if she breaks them she will suffer suppression- a fate that is supposed to be worse than death.
5. Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
It is a heatwave for the records. Hotter than any summer ever, this heat has people acting out. Petty crime is skyrocketing, the asphalt is melting, shoes are sticking to the ground, and someone in the suburbs is murdering girls.
This summer is not only mind-numbingly hot but incredibly difficult for Hannah. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago and Hannah’s life can’t seem to go back to normal. It can’t go back to normal until Lillian’s ghost stops haunting her – begging her to investigate her murder. If Hannah wants to move forward, she has to figure out the Valentine murders and how it ties into Lillian’s murder. But doing so opens the door to the paranormal world of ghost girls and secrets she doesn’t want to know.
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4. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
It’s 1883 and the veil between the living and paranormal has grown thin. Mediums work under the Royal Speaker Society, and Silas Bell would rather die than work as an obedient medium wife. But Mother insists he will be married by the end of the year. Even though they have gone to great lengths to hide his autism, that he practices surgery in the back, or that he is a boy, not the girl that everyone keeps insisting he is.
After failing at an escape from an arranged marriage, he gets diagnosed with veil sickness. A mysterious disease that sends violet-eyed mediums into madness.
They get treated at a sanatorium and finish school. Where he will either become a wife or disappear like the rest of the girls who have been sent there. So when he gets there and realizes ghosts are begging for help, he rolls up his sleeves and starts digging through the innards of the school to figure out what happens to the girls who did not become wives.
3. Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Orphaned at a young age, Signa has had a string of foster parents. It seems like each one just wants her fortune and not her. However, each one has met with an untimely ending. The only remaining relatives are the Hawthornes. Elusive, eccentric, keeps to themselves and ignores the rest of the family this family is different than the others who have taken her in.
Her uncle parties to forget the passing of his late wife, and his son tries to redeem the family’s reputation. The daughter of the family is very sick, but Signa has no idea what her illness is.
Then one day, the ghost of the late mother shows up with claims of being poisoned. With this ghost showing up, Signa realizes that the family she depends on is gravely in danger. And the best way to figure out what is happening is to make a pact with death himself. After all, he has been by her side for as long as she can remember. Though he has really made her life hell up to this point, she needs to make a deal and a bond so she can save the lives of her only remaining family.
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2. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Sunny-Lee had a budding pop-star career up until a scandal ruined it all and left her falling and trying to figure out her life. She now spends her days longing for the past and stalking her ex bff-Candie. Once inseparable, they have zero contact now.
When stalking/looking online Sunny finds out that Candie is attending a KPop workshop in Sunny’s hometown. Excitement overcomes her as she takes this opportunity to talk and try to reunite with Candie.
However, the workshop did not go as planned. Sunny is hit with paranormal visions of destruction and death upon the other girls in the KPop workshop. To stop this from happening and to uncover the truth Sunny needs to find out and expose who is doing this, and see if Candie is out for blood again.
1. The Fade by Demitria Lunetta
Years ago four girls were murdered. They now want to be found, not forgotten. Hayley knows the girls didn’t just disappear, but they were murdered. Their presence in her house is hostile and overbearing. These paranormal girls want something from Hayley, but can she figure it out before it is too late and they get mad at her?
