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CG Drews is the award-winning NYT Bestselling author of Don’t Let The Forest In, Hazelthorn, and You Did Nothing Wrong. Their work has been translated into over 12 languages, was nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the B&N 2025 YA Book Awards, and are also Indie Next Picks and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections. CG lives in Australia under a pile of unread books. Find on Instagram as @paperfury and TikTok as @cgdrews or at cgdrews.com.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 69,284 ratings · 20,143 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Don't Let the Forest In 4.06 avg rating — 45,148 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hazelthorn 4.23 avg rating — 11,479 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 6,061 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Perfect Notes 4.16 avg rating — 4,684 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Did Nothing Wrong 4.13 avg rating — 890 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Steals Christmas 4.38 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kings of Nowhere 4.61 avg rating — 256 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laurie (Hazelthorn, #0.5) 4.60 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House For Lost Things 4.69 avg rating — 106 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scorpion Deep 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Chocolate is a substance worth existing for”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

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“You could cut me open and devour everything that I am. I would let you, I'd ask you to. But I have no idea what it means to you. What I mean to you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

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“Everything inside me is in ruins," Thomas said. "For you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

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1st Quarter 2026 - Horror #2

Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews (368 pp)

3 votes, 37.5%

Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (416 pp)

2 votes, 25.0%

A Forest, Darkly by A.G. Slatter (368 pp)

2 votes, 25.0%

The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis (240 pp)

1 vote, 12.5%

When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy (304 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

Revenge by Yōko Ogawa

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The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee

0 votes, 0.0%

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