Start with high-confidence dark comedy ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Scream All Night
Derek Milman
Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare
Gideon Green in Black and White
Katie Henry
Ghostgirl
Tonya Hurley
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!
Fiona Rosenbloom
Bad Taste in Boys
Carrie Harris
Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen
Wendelin Van Draanen
No Good Deed
Goldy Moldavsky
Croak
Gina Damico
Bright Shining World
Josh Swiller
Most Likely to Murder
Lish McBride
Difficult Girls
Veronica Bane
Dork Diaries 2
Rachel Renée Russell
Munmun
Jesse Andrews
Dork Diaries 7
Student Government
Dave Justus, Lilah Sturges
Goodnight Dorm Room
Keith Riegert, Samuel Kaplan
Swallow
Sam Schill
Fractured Signals (skibidi Original Novel #1)
Lyndsay Ely
My Fair Monster
Adrienne Rivera
