Books to Read if you Love Wednesday on Netflix

Here are some Books to Read if you Love Wednesday on Netflix. Filled with sinister boarding school vibes, paranormal suspense, and secret societies, these shows capture the Wednesday Adams Aesthetic!

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Books to Read if You Love Wednesday on Netflix

These Thrilling YA Books Like Wednesday Adams will give you all the Wednesday vibes and aesthetic. Photo of Wednesday holding a large old fashioned black umbrella. Graphic by Jen Ryland

Wednesday Season 2 on Netflix premieres on August 6

All these titles have a Wednesday Addams Aesthetic: spooky Gothic boarding school with a Dark Academia feel, a sinister Secret Society, some paranormal suspense, and Addams family drama.

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Our Wicked Histories by Amy Goldsmith (2024) A woman goes to stay at the home of some creepy friends from her boarding school.

  • Where? Wren Hall in Ireland.
  • What? A fun Halloween weekend
  • What’s up? A mysterious death

The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Stevens (2023) A new girl attends a boarding school at which four students lost their lives in a mystery fire finds a book in the library with a soul-splitting ritual.

  • Where? Carvell College for the Arts
  • What? Mysterious deaths in the past
  • What’s up? Creepy rituals

Check out my review of The Society for Soulless Girls!


Photo collage of the covers of Let Sleeping Girls Lie, The Harrowing, and Society for Soulless Girls three books to read if you love Wednesday on Netflix

The Harrowing by Kristen Kiesling, illustrated by Rye Hickman (2024) A psychic teen is sent to a boarding school for kids with special powers. 

  • Where? Rosewood
  • What? A center for teens with special abillities
  • What’s up? Spooky stuff!

They Thought They Buried Us by Nonieqa Ramos (2024) A girl gets a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, and starts having troubling dreams. 

  • Where? Our Lady of Perpetual Mercy
  • What? Trauma, gaslighting and mystery

Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé  (2024) A girl at boarding school gets teh attention of a secret society and tries to solve the disappearance of her roommate.

Here’s my review of Where Sleeping Girls Lie!


Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (2024) A desperate girl agrees to take a job at a cursed mansion. 

Check out my Review of Starling House

Photo collage of the covers of Wicked Histories, Bitterthorn and Deadly Education, three books to read if you love Wednesday on Netflix

Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn (2023) In a cursed town, a young woman offers herself to be the companion for a witch.

  • Sapphic Beauty and the Beast retelling

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (2021) A girl tries to survive a magical boarding school.

  • Where: Scolomance
  • What: A School for the Magically Gifted
  • What’s up: Powerful Dark Magic

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl (2021) After the mysterious death of their best friend, a group of girls at an elite school decided to investigates. 

  • Where? Grimrose Académie
  • What? A student dies under mysterious circumstances and a new girl arrives.
  • What’s up? ancient fairytale curses

Have you read any of these? Excited bout Wednesday? Tell me in comments!

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