Teen Books for Fans of Stranger Things

Craving those nostalgic, creepy, adventurous Stranger Things vibes? Try this list of books that teen fans may enjoy, with themes or elements that include: 1980s, conspiracy, creepy vibes, disappearances/reappearances, friend groups, horror, hunter/hunted, "kids on bikes," monsters, mystery, nostalgia, psychics, small towns, or supernatural tales. All titles but one (Paper Girls) are located in the Teen collections.

Updated January 9, 2026
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Teen Books for Fans of Stranger Things

Craving those nostalgic, creepy, adventurous Stranger Things vibes? Try this list of books that teen fans may enjoy, with themes or elements that include: 1980s, conspiracy, creepy vibes, disappearances/reappearances, friend groups, horror, hunter/hunted, "kids on bikes," monsters, mystery, nostalgia, psychics, small towns, or supernatural tales. All titles but one (Paper Girls) are located in the Teen collections.

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Something wicked this way comes
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope...
Something wicked this way comes
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope...
Don't let the forest in
Drews, C. G.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! As alluring as it is unsettling, award-winning author CG Drews' debut YA psychological horror will leave readers breathless and hesitant to venture deeper into the woods. Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his...
Don't Let the Forest in
Drews, Cg
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! As alluring as it is unsettling, award-winning author CG Drews' debut YA psychological horror will leave readers breathless and hesitant to venture deeper into the woods. Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his...
Beasts of prey
Gray, Ayana
Paper Book
In this blockbuster fantasy series, perfect for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter and Iron Widow, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they journey into a magical jungle to hunt down a vicious monster. "Rich in magic and mythos, Beasts of Prey is a feast...

First book in a trilogy that also includes Beasts of Ruin and Beasts of War

The forest demands its due
Jackson, Kosoko
Paper Book
A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning dark academia novel about a queer Black teen who discovers the sinister history of his boarding school and the corrupt powers behind it all. A USA Today bestseller! Regent Academy has a long...
Time will tell
Lyga, Barry
Paper Book
A young-adult thriller ricocheting between the bigotry of the past and present as teens unravel their parents' secrets. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying -- now in paperback! Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never...
None Shall Sleep
Marney, Ellie
Paper Book
In 1982, two teenagers-serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell-are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from...

First book in a trilogy that also includes Some Shall Break and All Shall Mourn

The girls are never gone
Marsh, Sarah Glenn
Paper Book
The Conjuring meets Sadie in this queer ghost story, when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit. Dare Chase doesn't believe in ghosts. But as the host of Attachments, her brand-new paranormal investigation...
Rules for vanishing
Marshall, Kate Alice
Paper Book
In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister--at all costs. Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy...
The left-handed booksellers of London
Nix, Garth
Paper Book
A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix. In a slightly alternate London in 1983,...

First in an ongoing series that also includes The Sinister Booksellers of Bath

Dark and shallow lies
Sain, Ginny Myers
Paper Book
A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place...
House of Hollow
Sutherland, Krystal
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they...
Paper girls. 1
Vaughan, Brian K.
Paper Book
Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Eisner Award winning series PaperGirls is coming Amazon Prime Video in July 2022! From Brian K. Vaughan,#1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artistof WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new...

Located in Adult Graphic Novels, this series features teen adventurer protagonsists, a 1980s setting (in volume 1), and otherwordly, sci-fi adventures that make it a natural fit for older teen and adult Stranger Things fans.

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