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Occult Fiction

Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)

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  • 2009 first published
  • 527 pages
  • ★ 3.6 (21 ratings)
  • 6 editions
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Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1) (2009) is an occult fiction novel. It takes readers to South Carolina in 1861–1865. It deals with dreams, high schools, love and psychic ability.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, and 166 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Chapter Books bestseller list in 2009.

At about 527 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.

About Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Chapter Books, 2009

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Dreams
  • High schools
  • Love
  • Psychic ability
  • Recluses
  • Schools
  • South Carolina Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Supernatural
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Love stories
  • School stories
  • Romance fiction
  • American Civil War, 1861-1865 fast, OCoLCfst01351658
  • Hermits
  • Psychics
  • South carolina

Quick answers

Who wrote Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)?

Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1) was written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and first published in 2009.

What genre is Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)?

It is usually shelved as Occult Fiction.

How long is Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)?

The median edition has 527 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures Series, Book 1)?

Readers who like it often enjoy Sleeping With Fear, Superstition and Twilight.

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