Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Black

What to read after The Black by D.J. MacHale: 24 titles sharing themes of Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Legends, Myths, Fables, Death, Grief, Bereavement, and Horror, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to The Black

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

The Light

D.J. MacHale

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement

The Goddess Legacy The Goddess QueenThe Lovestruck GoddessGoddess of the UnderworldGod of ThievesGod of Darkness

Aimée Carter

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Once Dead, Twice Shy A Novel

Kim Harrison

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

Lola Reyes Is So Not Worried

Cindy L. Rodriguez

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Endless Water, Starless Sky

Rosamund Hodge

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

What Stays Buried

Suzanne Young

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

The Girl from the Well

Rin Chupeco

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Rick Riordan Presents: Aru Shah and the City of Gold A Pandava Novel Book 4

Roshani Chokshi

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Roshani Chokshi

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#10

Thin Space

Jody Casella

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#11

A Mad Zombie Party

Gena Showalter

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#12

The Isle of Blood

Richard Yancey

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#13

Rogue

Gina Damico

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#14

A Beautiful Evil

Kelly Keaton

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Fantasy & Magic

#15

The Hidden

Jessica Verday

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#16

Stone

Finbar Hawkins

Themes: Legends, Myths, Fables • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#17

The Girl and the Ghost

Hanna Alkaf

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#18

The Puppet’s Payback and Other Chilling Tales

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#19

Rick Riordan Presents: Paola Santiago and the River of Tears-A Paola Santiago Novel Book 1

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#20

The Haunted

Jessica Verday

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#21

Found

P. C. Cast

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#22

No Place for Monsters: School of Phantoms

Kory Merritt

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

#23

The Missing Piece of Charlie O’Reilly — Rebecca K. S. Ansari

Rebecca K.S. Ansari

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Horror

#24

No Place for Monsters

Kory Merritt

Themes: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural • Legends, Myths, Fables • Horror

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Black by D.J. MacHale. Connected by Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Legends, Myths, Fables, Death, Grief, Bereavement. Authors featured include D.J. MacHale, Aimée Carter, Kim Harrison, Cindy L. Rodriguez, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.