Final Girl Horror Picks

Updated April 21, 2026
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How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
Thompson, Shailee
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A delightful celebration of rom-coms, slasher flicks, and the women who love them." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A humorous, swoony, and downright terrifying slasher rom-com in which a cinephile gets caught in the...
The Black girl survives in this one : horror stories
Evans, Desiree S.
Paper Book
INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER! Locus Award Winner Ignyte Award Finalist "This anthology makes a statement: Black women belong in horror...Projects like this -- brave, necessary -- celebrate Black women, and will hopefully inspire the future of the genre." --The New York...
Seven All Alone
McKay, Kirsty
Paper Book
From the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister? comes another gripping thriller that follows seven teens stranded together on a trip in the mountains, cut off from civilization, and hunted by an unknown killer who wants them dead.  Maggie Atkins will never forget...
You're not supposed to die tonight
Bayron, Kalynn
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller! At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night? This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street...
The return of ellie black : A Novel
Jean, Emiko
Paper Book
A USA TODAY Bestseller | An NPR Best Book of 2024 | A Goodreads Best Thriller of 2024 In this "page-turning suspense novel, shrewd character study, and captivating mystery" (Stephen King) Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the...
Camp Damascus
Tingle, Chuck
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY & INDIE BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2023 (Vulture) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire, Library Journal) * A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist! Chuck Tingle's debut, Camp Damascus,...
The Lake House
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
*Junior Library Guild Selection  *YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults *A YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Yellowjackets meets One of Us Is Lying in this masterful survival thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth...
Shroud
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time. They looked into...
The Starving Saints
Starling, Caitlin
Paper Book
USA Today Bestseller! "As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreams--and my nightmares." --Ava Reid, #1 New York Times ...
The Unveiling
Barry, Quan
Paper Book
"A novel that's equal parts 'White Lotus' and 'Get Out'"--New York Times From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment,...
The Unworthy
Bazterrica, Agustina
Paper Book
THE JAW-DROPPING NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in...

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