Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Waking Dark

Across City & Town Life, Survival Stories, Lifestyles, and Death, Grief, Bereavement — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman.

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Top related books to The Waking Dark

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Lair of Dreams A Diviners Novel

Libba Bray

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • Mysteries & Detective Stories

City of Glass

Cassandra Clare

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • People & Places

The Rains A Novel

Gregg Hurwitz

Themes: City & Town Life • Survival Stories • Lifestyles

Freewater

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Themes: City & Town Life • Survival Stories • Lifestyles

La Casita

Virginia Lee Burton

Themes: City & Town Life • Survival Stories • Lifestyles

Treasure Island Runaway Gold

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: City & Town Life • Survival Stories • Lifestyles

The Wrap-up List

Steven Arntson

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

Campfire

Shawn Sarles

Themes: Survival Stories • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • People & Places

#10

The Guidance

Marley Gibson

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#11

The Broken Lands

Kate Milford

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • People & Places

#12

The Vanderbeekers Ever After

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#13

The Trouble with Half a Moon

Danette Vigilante

Themes: City & Town Life • Lifestyles • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#14

Chasing Shadows

Swati Avasthi

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#15

City of Saints & Thieves

Natalie C. Anderson

Themes: Survival Stories • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#16

Not If I Save You First

Ally Carter

Themes: Survival Stories • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#17

Resurrection of the Phoenix’s Grace (Book Four) Phoenix Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy with Phoenixes

LRW Lee

Themes: Survival Stories • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#18

What Stays Buried

Suzanne Young

Themes: Survival Stories • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

#19

Every Stolen Breath

Kimberly Gabriel

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#20

The Garden of Eve

Kelly L. Going

Themes: Lifestyles • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

#21

Powerful

Lauren Roberts

Themes: Survival Stories • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

#22

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

Themes: Survival Stories • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#23

Closed for the Season

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Survival Stories • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#24

Spin

Lamar Giles

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of City & Town Life, Survival Stories, Lifestyles — the same threads that run through The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman. Among the authors featured: Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Gregg Hurwitz, Amina Luqman-Dawson, and others.