Prepare for dark academia, eerie vibes, and young adult crimes this fall. If you’re looking for the best YA thrillers to get you into your fall spirit, add these ones to your autumnal TBR!

Keep Your Friends Close

Keep Your Friends Close by Cynthia Murphy

Chloe Roberts’ world has just came crashing down. Believing she was next to be chosen for the Morton Academy’s secret society, Jewel and Bone, she is devastated when her best friend, Nikhita Patel, is chosen instead….and Nikhita also steals Chloe’s boyfriend in the process.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Catch Your Death

Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron

Devi, Lizzie, and Jayne are snowed in at the Bramble Estate, the home of the rich Vanforte family. When the matriarch, Emily Vanforte, is poisoned, all signs point to murder. With the suspects including Emily’s husband, her teenage daughter, the daughter’s boyfriend, and her husband’s nephew, no one is safe. Trapped with a killer, the three friends must solve the mystery before one of them is next.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Tastes Like Candy

Tastes Like Candy by Jessica Lacy

Violet Warren and her friends have been chosen to be part of the Senior Scavenge. To welcome them into their senior year, eight of the girls must break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt. When a masked murderer begins to kill them one by one, Violet is forced to do whatever it takes to make it through the night.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Let's Split Up

Let’s Split Up by Bill Wood

When the popular couple Brad and Shelley are murdered in a Victorian mansion, rumors swirl that it is a ghoul who haunts the mansion looking for revenge. Now, Cam, Jonesy, Amber, and Buffy are in the mansion looking for answers and as they investigate deeper, they find this may not be just a rumor after all.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

We Fell Apart

We Fell Apart by E. Lockhart

Matilda never knew she had a father, now he’s invited her to spend the summer with him at his seaside home. Kingsley Cello is a reclusive artist. Thinking she may find a new part of herself, Matilda then meets her long-lost brother, Meer; former child star, Brock; and Tatum, who is wild and ready to leave Hidden Beach. One person is missing – Kingsley – and now, Matilda needs to discover some of the history of Hidden Beach to get the answers she wants.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Seven All Alone

Seven All Alone by Kirsty McKay

Ten years ago, Maggie Atkins and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped by their bus driver and held captive. Although he fell to his death and all of the kids escaped, Maggie has done her best to move on. Now, forced to go on a school trip with the kids she was abducted with eerily in the same vicinity of where they were held captive, a storm causes her group to be separated by their chaperone. When the group realizes someone else is on the mountain and knows about what happened ten years ago, the stakes rise when that person is willing to pick them off one by one.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Twin Tides

Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen

Caliste Ha is an heiress and influencer who lives the glamorous life in Los Angeles…or so it seems. Aria Nguyen lives across the country and is a freshman at Georgetown University. Although the two have never met, a phone call changes everything when their long-missing mother is found dead in Minnesota. When the two girls finally meet they are shocked to find out they are twins and now they have to solve the mystery as to what happened to their mother.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

The Obsession

The Obsession by Natasha Preston

Connie and her sister, Isla, never wanted to be famous, but now they are thanks to their mother’s famous vlog. When local girls who look just like Connie begin to die, Connie realizes someone is out there watching their every move.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble