Twilight Read-alikes without a Lot of Romance

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Twilight read-alikes
• Little or no romance
• Dark, edgy stories
• Teen books
  

Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
YA F Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

The Luxe
By Anna Godbersen
YA F Godbersen
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.

Wicked Lovely
By Melissa Marr
YA F Marr
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA F Bray
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns from England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Uglies
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F Westerfe
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose job it is to have a great time, Tally’s best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Midnight Predator
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
YA F Atwater-Rhodes
Turquoise Draka, a mercenary trained to fight vampires and shape-shifters, infiltrates a vampire stronghold, but ghosts from her past and new possibilities from her future threaten to distract her from the work at hand.

Twilight Read-alikes

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Fantasy
• Romance
• Suspense
• Stephenie Meyer read-alikes
  
• Teen books
• Twilight read-alikes

Companions of the Night
By Vivian Vande Velde
YA F VANDE VELDE
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. The men assume that Kerry is a vampire, too, and soon her family is at risk as well.

Look for Me By Moonlight
By Mary Downing Hahn
YA F HAHN
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious ghost.

Peeps
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFELD
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

The Silver Kiss
By Annette Curtis Klause
YA F KLAUSE
Simon, a mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps sixteen-year-old Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. Alluring and enigmatic Simon is a vampire, who is eager to avenge the death of his own mother.

In the Forests of the Night
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
YA F ATWATER-RHODES
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will to seek the vampire she believes murdered her human brother.

Vampire Kisses
By Ellen Schreiber
YA F SCHREIBER
The mansion on top of Benson Hill has been empty and boarded up for years. But a new family has moved in—and they never ventures out during the day. Who are these creepy people, especially the handsome and elusive Alexander Sterling? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.

Wicked Lovely
By Melissa Marr
YA F MARR
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA F BRAY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Shiver
By Maggie Stiefvater
YA F STIEFVAT
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
YA F MEAD
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.