2010s YA was known for books about twins and their hijinks. Here’s my list of YA Books About Twins, Clones and Doppelgängers. This list includes YA Mysteries, YA Sci Fi and Dystopian Books, and YA Fantasy and Paranormal Fiction about Twins from the 2010s to the present. Let’s celebrate Gemini season!
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Way back around 2012-13, it seemed like EVERY other YA book was about twins or clones. There were fantasy twin books, mystery twin books, and dystopian twin books.
YA Mystery and Thriller Books About Twins
Our Wicked Historiesby Amy Goldsmith (2024) A woman goes to the home of some creepy friends from her boarding school.
We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean. (2015) Committed to a mental ward, Alice thinks about the fire that her twin sister set.
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver. (2015) When a girl’s twin sister does, she impulsively decides to take her place.
The Lying Game by Sara Shepard. (2006) Twins decide to switch places, but one dies and the other is stuck in her place. (The show, which doesn’t kill off one twin, was better.)
YA Sci Fi and Dystopian Books About Twins and Clones
Half Life by Lillian Clark. (2020) A high school student decides to clone herself so she can finally enjoy her life.
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover. (2019) Six DNA duplicate students join the Darkwood Academy, one of whom is a girl’s now dead best friend.
Tandem by Anna Jarzab (2013) Parallel universe life swapping.
Pawn (Blackout Rebellion Series) by Aimee Carter. (2013) A girl is surgically transformed so she can take the place of a girl in a powerful family who mysteriously dies.
Dualed by Elsie Chapman (2013) People must battle their own clone by the time they turn twenty.
The Originals by Cat Patrick (2013) Cloned triplets have to pretend to be one person.
Impostor by Susanne Winnicker (2013) A girl impersonates a murder victim and tries to solve her murder … before she ends up a victim as well.
The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna (2012) The rich have clones ready in case of disaster.
Beta by Rachel Cohn (2012) A girl created in a clone lab starts to have thoughts and feelings.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson (2008) A girl wakes up after a terrible accident and has a lot of questions
More of Me by Kathryn Evans (2016) Every year, Teva is forced to clone herself. But this year she wants to put a stop to things.
YA Fantasy and Paranormal Books With Twins
A Consuming Fire by Laura Weymouth (2022) Every year, a village must send a girl as a sacrifice. This year, that ritual threatens to separate a pair of twins.
Sisters of Blood and Spirit by Kady Cross. (2015) Every year, a dead twin takes over her sister’s body and experience the world of the living.
Linked by Imogen Howsen. (2013) A girl with mysterious visions learns that she is seeing the world through the eyes of a twin she never knew she had.
The Beautiful and The Cursed by Page Morgan. (2013) Tapped in a Gothic house, a girl searches for her missing twin brother.
You can also check out my list of adult mystery and thriller books about twins!
Have you read any of these? Tell me in comments!
I have only read More of Me. I only dabble in SFF, and have read maybe one other clone book (technically 2, the Replica duet). Twins, so many books.
I did read a lot of SFF and now, not as much…
I had The Secrets We Keep on my wishlist waaaay back then. I probably forgot all about it now but maybe I’ll get to it when I come across it at the bookstore.
I don’t know if you’ll consider it a twins book but I’ve been curious of This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis. I haven’t had the chance to get a copy of the book though.
I think I started that one and didn’t finish. It could be about twins, but I don’t remember!
I thought I knew a few books with twins and clones, and then realised I could only think of one and it’s False Hearts by Laura Lam (cool concept, I really enjoyed it I must reread that book). I’ll have to check out a couple of books on your list.
I haven’t heard of that one _ I’ll check it out!