37 Books like Wilder Girls

The Unworthy

by Agustina Bazterrica

A servant in a torture convent falls for a stranger fire will not touch.

3.60

52k+

🛐 Religious Dystopia 🌿 Eco Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 🩸 Body Horror ✍️ Lyrical Horror

The Unworthy 93%

A servant in a torture convent falls for a stranger fire will not touch.

by Agustina Bazterrica 2023

3.60

52k+ ratings

🛐 Religious Dystopia 🌿 Eco Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 🩸 Body Horror ✍️ Lyrical Horror

Lost Girls of Hollow Lake

by Rebekah Faubion • 2026

Five girls survived Dead Refuge Island. Then a body surfaces, and the island calls them back.

3.60

505

🏘️ Small Town Horror 🏝️ Isolated Island Horror 🔪 Final Girl Energy 🤐 Pact Of Silence 💔 Survivor's Guilt

Lost Girls of Hollow Lake 95%

Five girls survived Dead Refuge Island. Then a body surfaces, and the island calls them back.

by Rebekah Faubion 2026

3.60

505 ratings

🏘️ Small Town Horror 🏝️ Isolated Island Horror 🔪 Final Girl Energy 🤐 Pact Of Silence 💔 Survivor's Guilt

What the Woods Took

by Courtney Gould • 2024

Five teens in wilderness therapy find the forest full of monsters wearing familiar faces.

3.85

6k+

🏕️ Wilderness Horror 👤 DoppelgäNger Horror 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🔒 Forced Proximity

What the Woods Took 94%

Five teens in wilderness therapy find the forest full of monsters wearing familiar faces.

by Courtney Gould 2024

3.85

6k+ ratings

🏕️ Wilderness Horror 👤 DoppelgäNger Horror 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🔒 Forced Proximity

The Blonde Dies First

by Joelle Wellington • 2024

A séance summons a demon that picks off a Brooklyn friend group in horror-movie kill order.

3.56

4k+

🎬 Meta Horror 🔪 Supernatural Slasher 👯 Twin Sisters 🏃‍♀️ Final Girl 💕 Sapphic Romance

The Blonde Dies First 92%

A séance summons a demon that picks off a Brooklyn friend group in horror-movie kill order.

by Joelle Wellington 2024

3.56

4k+ ratings

🎬 Meta Horror 🔪 Supernatural Slasher 👯 Twin Sisters 🏃‍♀️ Final Girl 💕 Sapphic Romance

Burn Down, Rise Up

by Vincent Tirado • 2022

Mother in a coma, friend missing: a Bronx teen enters a subway game where history kills.

3.72

3k+

👻 Deadly Urban Legend 🚇 Supernatural Subway 🖤 Creeping Dread 💕 Friends To Lovers 📜 Historical Trauma

Burn Down, Rise Up 92%

Mother in a coma, friend missing: a Bronx teen enters a subway game where history kills.

by Vincent Tirado 2022

3.72

3k+ ratings

👻 Deadly Urban Legend 🚇 Supernatural Subway 🖤 Creeping Dread 💕 Friends To Lovers 📜 Historical Trauma

The Death House

by Sarah Pinborough • 2015

Banished to a remote house for condemned children, a boy finds hope in a defiant newcomer.

3.61

5k+

🔒 Boarding School Dystopia 🧬 Genetic Discrimination 💔 Doomed Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🕊️ Mercy Killing

The Death House 92%

Banished to a remote house for condemned children, a boy finds hope in a defiant newcomer.

by Sarah Pinborough 2015

3.61

5k+ ratings

🔒 Boarding School Dystopia 🧬 Genetic Discrimination 💔 Doomed Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🕊️ Mercy Killing

Season of Fear

by Emily Cooper • 2025

A girl born fearless threatens an ancient bargain: her village's safety, paid for in women's terror.

4.03

740

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🌳 Forbidden Forest 🔥 Sapphic Slow Burn 💕 Found Family

Season of Fear 92%

A girl born fearless threatens an ancient bargain: her village's safety, paid for in women's terror.

by Emily Cooper 2025

4.03

740 ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🌳 Forbidden Forest 🔥 Sapphic Slow Burn 💕 Found Family

Fable for the End of the World

by Ava Reid • 2025

A teenage taxidermist, chosen as prey for a televised hunt, discovers her killer is as trapped.

3.66

15k+

🎯 Televised Death Match 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🌈 Forbidden Queer Love 🧠 Erased Memories

Fable for the End of the World 93%

A teenage taxidermist, chosen as prey for a televised hunt, discovers her killer is as trapped.

by Ava Reid 2025

3.66

15k+ ratings

🎯 Televised Death Match 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🌈 Forbidden Queer Love 🧠 Erased Memories

We Call Them Witches

by India-Rose Bower • 2026

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

3.37

1k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

We Call Them Witches 93%

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

by India-Rose Bower 2026

3.37

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

The Grace Year

by Kim Liggett

Thirty-three girls are sent to the woods to purge their magic. The well is poison.

4.13

250k+

🗳️ Feminist Dystopia 🌲 Wilderness Exile ⚔️ Enemies To Protectors 👑 Reluctant Leader 🤝 Found Family

The Grace Year 93%

Thirty-three girls are sent to the woods to purge their magic. The well is poison.

by Kim Liggett 2019

4.13

250k+ ratings

🗳️ Feminist Dystopia 🌲 Wilderness Exile ⚔️ Enemies To Protectors 👑 Reluctant Leader 🤝 Found Family

Unwind

by Neal Shusterman • 2007

Three teens flee a world that harvests adolescents for parts, chasing a hidden sanctuary.

4.17

251k+

🫁 Dystopian Body Horror 🏃 Teens On The Run 👥 Found Family ⛪ Crisis Of Faith ✊ Body Autonomy

Unwind 92%

Three teens flee a world that harvests adolescents for parts, chasing a hidden sanctuary.

by Neal Shusterman 2007

4.17

251k+ ratings

🫁 Dystopian Body Horror 🏃 Teens On The Run 👥 Found Family ⛪ Crisis Of Faith ✊ Body Autonomy

Parasite

by Mira Grant • 2013

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

3.68

19k+

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Parasite 92%

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

by Mira Grant 2013

3.68

19k+ ratings

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Swarm

by Jennifer D. Lyle • 2023

Killer butterflies attack, an anxious teen barricades her home against winged predators and infected

3.65

2k+

🦋 Creature Horror 🦠 Outbreak Horror 😰 Anxious Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

Swarm 92%

Killer butterflies attack, an anxious teen barricades her home against winged predators and infected

by Jennifer D. Lyle 2023

3.65

2k+ ratings

🦋 Creature Horror 🦠 Outbreak Horror 😰 Anxious Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

Kill Creatures

by Rory Power • 2025

When three friends vanish, only Nan knows why. Then one returns alive, remembering nothing.

3.49

5k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Kill Creatures 92%

When three friends vanish, only Nan knows why. Then one returns alive, remembering nothing.

by Rory Power 2025

3.49

5k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Private Rites

by Julia Armfield

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

3.58

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror

Private Rites 92%

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

by Julia Armfield 2024

3.58

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror

Hide

by Kiersten White • 2022

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

3.31

44k+

🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

Hide 93%

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

by Kiersten White 2022

3.31

44k+ ratings

🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

The Troop

by Nick Cutter • 2014

A remote scout trip turns lethal when a starving man brings a parasite eating from within.

3.83

129k+

🦠 Body Horror 🏕️ Survival Horror 🏝️ Trapped On An Island 🧫 Contagion Horror 👦 Boys In Peril

The Troop 93%

A remote scout trip turns lethal when a starving man brings a parasite eating from within.

by Nick Cutter 2014

3.83

129k+ ratings

🦠 Body Horror 🏕️ Survival Horror 🏝️ Trapped On An Island 🧫 Contagion Horror 👦 Boys In Peril

Where Echoes Die

by Courtney Gould • 2023

A grieving sister traces her mother's obsession to a desert town whose miracle cure devours memory.

3.57

2k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏘️ Eerie Small Town 💔 Grieving Sisters 🧩 Erased Memories 🔥 Sapphic Romance

Where Echoes Die 92%

A grieving sister traces her mother's obsession to a desert town whose miracle cure devours memory.

by Courtney Gould 2023

3.57

2k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏘️ Eerie Small Town 💔 Grieving Sisters 🧩 Erased Memories 🔥 Sapphic Romance

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin • 2025

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

3.46

8k+

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

Eat the Ones You Love 92%

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

by Sarah Maria Griffin 2025

3.46

8k+ ratings

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

Good Girls Don’t Die

by Christina Henry • 2023

Her family is fake, her town is a set, and unseen cameras watch her every move.

3.46

10k+

🩸 Feminist Horror 🎬 Meta Horror 🎮 Deadly Game 🔪 Final Girl 🔥 Female Rage

Good Girls Don’t Die 91%

Her family is fake, her town is a set, and unseen cameras watch her every move.

by Christina Henry 2023

3.46

10k+ ratings

🩸 Feminist Horror 🎬 Meta Horror 🎮 Deadly Game 🔪 Final Girl 🔥 Female Rage

How Bad Things Can Get

by Darcy Coates • 2025

She survived a cult massacre. The island festival she's trapped in is its reenactment.

3.71

11k+

💀 Cult Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 🎯 Deadly Game 🏝️ Remote Island 👁️ Prophetic Visions

How Bad Things Can Get 91%

She survived a cult massacre. The island festival she's trapped in is its reenactment.

by Darcy Coates 2025

3.71

11k+ ratings

💀 Cult Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 🎯 Deadly Game 🏝️ Remote Island 👁️ Prophetic Visions

Itch!

by Gemma Amor • 2025

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

3.71

3k+

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

Itch! 92%

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

by Gemma Amor 2025

3.71

3k+ ratings

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

The Honeys

by Ryan La Sala • 2022

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

3.79

21k+

🏕️ Camp Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique

The Honeys 92%

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

by Ryan La Sala 2022

3.79

21k+ ratings

🏕️ Camp Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique

The Lamb

by Lucy Rose

Her cannibal mother found love. Now Margot is the dinner they plan to share.

3.75

51k+

🍖 Cannibal Horror 🖤 Toxic Mother Daughter 💋 Sapphic Horror 🌾 Rural Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

The Lamb 92%

Her cannibal mother found love. Now Margot is the dinner they plan to share.

by Lucy Rose 2025

3.75

51k+ ratings

🍖 Cannibal Horror 🖤 Toxic Mother Daughter 💋 Sapphic Horror 🌾 Rural Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

Rolling in the Deep

by Mira Grant • 2015

A mockumentary crew hunts for mermaids in the Mariana Trench. Beneath them, the real ones hunt.

3.94

12k+

🐋 Deep Sea Horror 📹 Found Footage Horror 🚢 Doomed Expedition 🎬 Science Vs Spectacle 📺 Media Satire

Rolling in the Deep 91%

A mockumentary crew hunts for mermaids in the Mariana Trench. Beneath them, the real ones hunt.

by Mira Grant 2015

3.94

12k+ ratings

🐋 Deep Sea Horror 📹 Found Footage Horror 🚢 Doomed Expedition 🎬 Science Vs Spectacle 📺 Media Satire

Our Last Echoes

by Kate Alice Marshall • 2021

An orphan hunts for her missing mother on an Alaskan island where the mist hides doppelgangers.

3.49

4k+

👥 Doppelganger Horror 🏝️ Gothic Island 👩‍👧 Missing Mother 🏔️ Remote Alaska 🔬 Supernatural Research

Our Last Echoes 91%

An orphan hunts for her missing mother on an Alaskan island where the mist hides doppelgangers.

by Kate Alice Marshall 2021

3.49

4k+ ratings

👥 Doppelganger Horror 🏝️ Gothic Island 👩‍👧 Missing Mother 🏔️ Remote Alaska 🔬 Supernatural Research

Don't Let the Forest In

by C.G. Drews

When his best friend's drawings begin hunting the woods, the forest demands a heart.

4.05

60k+

🌑 Monsters As Grief 🖤 Asexual Love Story 🏫 Boarding School Horror 🏰 Gothic Fantasy 📖 Literary Horror

Don't Let the Forest In 91%

When his best friend's drawings begin hunting the woods, the forest demands a heart.

by C.G. Drews 2024

4.05

60k+ ratings

🌑 Monsters As Grief 🖤 Asexual Love Story 🏫 Boarding School Horror 🏰 Gothic Fantasy 📖 Literary Horror

Our Wives Under the Sea

by Julia Armfield • 2022

Her wife made it back from the ocean floor, but something else surfaced with her.

3.68

134k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 💧 Grief As Horror 💔 Doomed Lovers 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Our Wives Under the Sea 92%

Her wife made it back from the ocean floor, but something else surfaced with her.

by Julia Armfield 2022

3.68

134k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 💧 Grief As Horror 💔 Doomed Lovers 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Girl in the Creek

by Wendy N. Wagner • 2025

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

3.20

2k+

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Girl in the Creek 92%

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

by Wendy N. Wagner 2025

3.20

2k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

The Library at Hellebore

by Cassandra Khaw • 2025

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

3.07

7k+

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

The Library at Hellebore 91%

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

by Cassandra Khaw 2025

3.07

7k+ ratings

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

by John Wiswell • 2024

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

3.86

24k+

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Someone You Can Build a Nest In 91%

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

by John Wiswell 2024

3.86

24k+ ratings

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

The Queen

by Nick Cutter • 2024

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

3.53

8k+

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

The Queen 92%

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

by Nick Cutter 2024

3.53

8k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

Morsel

by Carter Keane • 2026

A work trip strands Lou among Appalachian cultists who keep a starving god in the basement.

3.58

2k+

🫀 Body Horror 🌲 Folk Horror 🕯️ Cult Horror 💼 Corporate Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist

Morsel 92%

A work trip strands Lou among Appalachian cultists who keep a starving god in the basement.

by Carter Keane 2026

3.58

2k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🌲 Folk Horror 🕯️ Cult Horror 💼 Corporate Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist

Hazelthorn

by C.G. Drews

Locked away for seven years, he escapes to find his guardian dead, dark vines threading his throat.

4.21

21k+

🌿 Botanical Horror 🩸 Body Horror 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👹 Monster Boyfriend 💉 Medical Abuse

Hazelthorn 91%

Locked away for seven years, he escapes to find his guardian dead, dark vines threading his throat.

by C.G. Drews 2025

4.21

21k+ ratings

🌿 Botanical Horror 🩸 Body Horror 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👹 Monster Boyfriend 💉 Medical Abuse

Perfect Girl

by Tracy Banghart • 2024

Trapped by a storm, four friends discover the real horror isn't the ghost haunting the house.

3.41

1k+

🔪 Feminist Horror 🏃 Survival Thriller 🎭 Good Girl Unraveling 👥 Friend Group In Peril 👁️ Hidden Predator

Perfect Girl 91%

Trapped by a storm, four friends discover the real horror isn't the ghost haunting the house.

by Tracy Banghart 2024

3.41

1k+ ratings

🔪 Feminist Horror 🏃 Survival Thriller 🎭 Good Girl Unraveling 👥 Friend Group In Peril 👁️ Hidden Predator

A Botanical Daughter

by Noah Medlock • 2024

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

3.58

7k+

🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

A Botanical Daughter 91%

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

by Noah Medlock 2024

3.58

7k+ ratings

🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

3.20

5k+

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

At Dark, I Become Loathsome 91%

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.20

5k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

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