Best Dark YA Books

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The Dark Portal (The Deptford Mice, #1)
The Dark Portal (The Deptford Mice, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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The Sidewalk's Regrets
The Sidewalk's Regrets 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Project
The Project 3.51 avg rating — 15,713 ratings
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The Rise of the Altereds (The Unadjusteds, #2)
The Rise of the Altereds (The Unadjusteds, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Breeder
Breeder 3.96 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Primal Animals
Primal Animals 3.14 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Get in My Head: Jared's Story
Get in My Head: Jared's Story 4.58 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Closer
Closer 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Fifty Yards and Holding
Fifty Yards and Holding 3.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by: Dan Wells
3.79 avg rating — 41,181 ratings
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From Where I Stand
From Where I Stand 3.79 avg rating — 390 ratings
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The Lock Artist
The Lock Artist 3.96 avg rating — 14,326 ratings
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Tompkin's School For The Extraordinarily Talented (Tompkin's School Trilogy #1)
Tompkin's School For The Extraordinarily Talented (Tompkin's School Trilogy #1) 3.89 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Crystal Prison (The Deptford Mice, #2)
The Crystal Prison (The Deptford Mice, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Secrets of the Deep (Mermaid Chronicles, #1)
Secrets of the Deep (Mermaid Chronicles, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Pieces of Me
Pieces of Me 4.05 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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Behind the Falls
Behind the Falls 4.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Thirteen Days to Midnight
Thirteen Days to Midnight 3.67 avg rating — 4,237 ratings
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UnWholly (Unwind, #2)
UnWholly (Unwind, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 65,447 ratings
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Fragmented (Untamed, #2)
Fragmented (Untamed, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Awakening (The Dark Rituals, #1)
Awakening (The Dark Rituals, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Right Behind You
Right Behind You 4.02 avg rating — 5,455 ratings
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The Final Reckoning (The Deptford Mice, #3)
The Final Reckoning (The Deptford Mice, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Everything is Changed
Everything is Changed 3.60 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Shadow Keepers
The Shadow Keepers 3.86 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Gone (Gone, #1)
Gone (Gone, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 208,389 ratings
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Project Cain
Project Cain 3.29 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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The Darkest Lie
The Darkest Lie 3.85 avg rating — 554 ratings
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The Alchymist's Cat (The Deptford Histories, #1)
The Alchymist's Cat (The Deptford Histories, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 956 ratings
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The Unadjusteds (The Unadjusteds, #1)
The Unadjusteds (The Unadjusteds, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 258 ratings
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A List of Cages
A List of Cages
by: Robin Roe
4.25 avg rating — 27,073 ratings
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Until Beth (Life & Beth, #1)
Until Beth (Life & Beth, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2)
The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You 3.83 avg rating — 598,225 ratings
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The Unraveling of Luna Forester
The Unraveling of Luna Forester 3.74 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Sharp Time
The Sharp Time 3.43 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
Pretties (Uglies, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 276,996 ratings
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Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3)
Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Last Lesson
Last Lesson 3.45 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Specials (Uglies, #3)
Specials (Uglies, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 201,873 ratings
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Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs 3.80 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Crazy
Crazy
by: Amy Reed
3.86 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
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Stained
Stained 3.93 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Fix Me
Fix Me 3.30 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Bunker Diary
The Bunker Diary 3.80 avg rating — 14,678 ratings
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Saving June
Saving June 3.96 avg rating — 17,384 ratings
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The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1)
The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 30,618 ratings
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The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)
The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)
by: K. Ancrum
3.97 avg rating — 12,798 ratings
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Shine
Shine 3.82 avg rating — 12,979 ratings
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Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3)
Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 17,243 ratings
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Here Lies Daniel Tate
Here Lies Daniel Tate 4.05 avg rating — 5,927 ratings
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Displacement
Displacement 3.33 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Ask the Passengers
Ask the Passengers
by: A.S. King
3.84 avg rating — 25,338 ratings
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Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2)
Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 19,952 ratings
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders 4.14 avg rating — 1,538,208 ratings
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Peeps (Peeps, #1)
Peeps (Peeps, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 25,480 ratings
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Bang
Bang 3.96 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
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Dirty Little Secrets
Dirty Little Secrets 3.75 avg rating — 5,487 ratings
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The Last Days (Peeps, #2)
The Last Days (Peeps, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 9,732 ratings
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Sleepless
Sleepless 3.41 avg rating — 933 ratings
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Evolution's Darling
Evolution's Darling 3.51 avg rating — 495 ratings
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A Light Amongst Shadows (Dark is the Night, #1)
A Light Amongst Shadows (Dark is the Night, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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Picture Unavailable
Picture Unavailable 3.94 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Violent Ends
Violent Ends 3.98 avg rating — 6,353 ratings
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The Institute
The Institute 4.20 avg rating — 322,012 ratings
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Runaway
Runaway 4.11 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
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Complicit
Complicit 3.65 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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Born This Way
Born This Way 4.41 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Dogs of Balboa
The Dogs of Balboa 4.18 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Inside Out
Inside Out 3.85 avg rating — 2,101 ratings
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Boy21
Boy21 3.95 avg rating — 10,825 ratings
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This Is Where It Ends
This Is Where It Ends 3.68 avg rating — 147,209 ratings
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Not a Drop to Drink (Not a Drop to Drink, #1)
Not a Drop to Drink (Not a Drop to Drink, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 14,135 ratings
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Vintage: A Ghost Story
Vintage: A Ghost Story 3.74 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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The Truth About Alice
The Truth About Alice 3.62 avg rating — 15,403 ratings
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December Park
December Park 4.26 avg rating — 3,149 ratings
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The Girl in the Box
The Girl in the Box 3.65 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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How I Live Now
How I Live Now 3.58 avg rating — 46,703 ratings
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A Matter of Days
A Matter of Days 3.85 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
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The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker
The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker 3.61 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
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The Dogs
The Dogs 3.91 avg rating — 3,748 ratings
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Looking for JJ (Jennifer Jones, #1)
Looking for JJ (Jennifer Jones, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 6,816 ratings
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Dead Flip
Dead Flip 3.48 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 203,783 ratings
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The Wrong Train
The Wrong Train 3.57 avg rating — 981 ratings
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Dear Killer
Dear Killer 3.47 avg rating — 4,835 ratings
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Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)
Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 6,837 ratings
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Pretty Girl-13
Pretty Girl-13
by: Liz Coley
4.03 avg rating — 7,989 ratings
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Trigger
Trigger 3.82 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Like the Red Panda
Like the Red Panda 3.48 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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Unlocked
Unlocked 3.38 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice 3.61 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Things Change
Things Change 3.76 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings, #1)
Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 20,493 ratings
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After
After
by: Amy Efaw
3.73 avg rating — 19,965 ratings
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown 3.84 avg rating — 76,593 ratings
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Echo
Echo 3.62 avg rating — 530 ratings
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All the Truth That's in Me
All the Truth That's in Me 3.91 avg rating — 15,345 ratings
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Absent
Absent 3.81 avg rating — 1,937 ratings
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