10 Best Midnight-themed Young Adult Books Depicting Deep Night World
Dive headfirst into the tumultuous world of midnight-themed young adult literature with this eclectic collection of novels and comics. Brilliantly written and existing in a class of their own, these are tales woven around the velvet mysteries of the deep night. They offer not just merely a shift in the shadows, but a vibrant night culture - atmospheric, electric, beautifully bizarre – hidden from the world bathed in sunlight.
Enamoring, terrifying, and thrilling, these young adult works are drenched in the eerie glow of the moon, sprinkled with blinking stars and whispered secrets of the dark. They transport the reader into an universe that is both dream-like and rooted in reality. Encased within the pages are complex characters who are drowned in bold emotions and brought to life through gripping narratives that perfectly blend romance, mystery, fantasy, and a hefty portion of the supernatural.
Brace yourself for the ride of your life as you traverse through clandestine societies hidden beneath the obsidian curtain of night, or magical trysts illuminated only by the otherworldly glow of witch-lights. Steeped in the rich sense of allure and foreboding that midnight brings, these darkly imaginative masterpieces will draw you in - page by tantalizing page. Every crack of a book spine is but an invitation to a captivating escapade in the deep night world.
『City of Bones』
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Author | Cassandra Clare |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Release Date | Sep 01, 2015 |
Source | Google Books |
『Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children』
The #1 New York Times best-selling series An abandoned orphanage on a mysterious island holds the key to supernatural secrets in this unusual and original first book in the one-of-a-kind Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series A captivating blend of horror, dark fantasy, paranormal mystery, and time travel brought to life with more than 50 haunting vintage photographs eBook Bonus Features: • A Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • Eight pages of color stills from the Tim Burton film • A sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series When a devastating family tragedy propels sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, he stumbles upon the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he explores the abandoned rooms, he uncovers a chilling truth—these children were not just peculiar, they were potentially dangerous, and they may have been quarantined for a reason. Trapped on this desolate island, their supernatural abilities and the mysteries surrounding them deepen. Impossibly, they may still be alive, their existence defying the laws of time and nature. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with a strange collection of historical photographs, this unforgettable novel will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story.”—Associated Press “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen “One of the coolest, creepiest YA books.”—PopSugar
Author | Ransom Riggs |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Release Date | Jun 07, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Night Circus』
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author | Erin Morgenstern |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Release Date | Sep 13, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『Daughter of Smoke & Bone』
The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Author | Laini Taylor |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Release Date | Sep 27, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Diviners』
Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
Author | Libba Bray |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Little Brown & Company |
Release Date | Dec 03, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)』
An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn't believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
Author | Maggie Stiefvater |
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Price | $7.99 |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Release Date | Sep 18, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Gilda Stories』
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel.
Author | Jewelle Gomez |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2016 |
Source | Google Books |
『Coraline 10th Anniversary Edition』
"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . ." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman's first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.
Author | Neil Gaiman |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | Apr 24, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『Anna Dressed in Blood』
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. Yet she spares Cas's life.
Author | Kendare Blake |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Tor Teen |
Release Date | Jul 03, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Archived』
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell– a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was: a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often-violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive. Being a Keeper isn't just dangerous-it's a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Da's death was hard enough, but now that her little brother is gone too, Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself might crumble and fall. In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hardwon redemption. Advance praise for THE ARCHIVED: "This gripping supernatural thriller features nuanced characters navigating a complex moral universe." ?Kirkus Reviews
Author | Victoria Schwab |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Hachette+ORM |
Release Date | Jan 29, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
So there you have it - our carefully curated roster of 10 brilliant midnight-themed novels and comics, specially picked for young adults who crave the mystical allure of the night world. Each of these selections brings to life the myriad facets of the dark, the elusive, and the enigmatic, taking you on moonlit escapades through tales woven with wit and ingenuity. These encapsulating narratives reveal the secrets of the dusk and break through the stereotypical fears attached to the nocturnal, presenting it as a realm alive with mystery, adventure, and a dash of the supernatural. Make sure to keep a night lamp handy, because once you dive into these pages, you'll be staying up way past midnight, utterly captivated. Whether you're a seasoned nocturnal bookworm or testing the nighttime waters for the first time, these stories will satiate your craving for an invigorating plunge into the world of fiction adorned by stars. As you turn the pages, you'll feel the night breeze, hear the distant hoot of the owl and sense a whole different universe that comes alive beneath the moon. Dive in, folks! It's going to be one heck of a ride.
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