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Jenni Howell

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Jenni Howell is an American dark academia and thriller author whose books feature characters that pluck themselves out of their pages and into your mind, eerie mysteries, and swoon-worthy romances that are almost never a good idea. Fans of The Raven Cycle and Atlas Six will find themselves at home in her words.

Her debut, Boys With Sharp Teeth, combines a gothic boarding school thriller with lush character work and a pulse-racing toxic romance...or two. BWST comes out in Winter 2025 from Macmillan's Roaring Brook Press with a second untitled novel to follow in 2026.

Jenni wants every book to be worthy of clutching to your chest, crying over, ...more

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Average rating: 3.06 · 3,112 ratings · 1,249 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Boys with Sharp Teeth 3.05 avg rating — 3,096 ratings — published 2025 — 10 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
	Prom Perfect by S.E. Reed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Demi Michelle Schwartz (Editor), Avery Timmons (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Teach Me to Prey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

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The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)

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The Glittering Edge (The Idlewood Duology, #1)

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“It’s safer to be angry than sad. Anger is a weapon. Sadness is a tomb.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

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“Life begins without our choice and ends the same way, a straight line of birth, breath, death. It’s us, our ideas and hopes and dreams and needs, that make the way difficult.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

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“That all my life I’ve wanted something I’m not even capable of. That I won’t ever be more, because I couldn’t even be enough.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

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