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 (Dread Nation, #2)
Justina Ireland
Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
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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