Where the setting is cooler than the main character.
created by amy.march
last updated June, 2026
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Famous in a Small Town
Emma Mills
I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys
A Magic Steeped in Poison
Judy I. Lin
A Sitting in St. James
Rita Williams-Garcia
Deathless Divide
Justina Ireland
Dread Nation
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday
Natalie C. Anderson
The City Beautiful
Aden Polydoros
Whichwood (Furthermore, #2)
Tahereh Mafi
The Queens of New York
E.L. Shen
Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger
What They Always Tell Us
Martin Wilson
Lies on the Serpent's Tongue (Bittersweet in the Hollow, #2)
Kate Pearsall
Bittersweet in the Hollow (Bittersweet in the Hollow, #1)
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
Adib Khorram
Scorched Grace
Margot Douaihy
I’d like to nominate Plain Bad Heroines for this list!! Characters were not memorable but by god did that setting steal the show
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