17 must-read fiction books like The Gaps by Leanne Hall

Cover of The Gaps by Leanne Hall

The Gaps

By: Leanne Hall

3.84

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be the one left behind? When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the…

"Death is the worst kind of silence, and I don't want to be silent."

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"Where do they go, those girls that accidentally fall through a gap in the universe? What's on the other side?"

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"Why is it so easy to override what girls and women want, what they might decide if they were given any control."

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"I see every fallen body on the cover of a crime novel, and I can't help thinking that everyone wants their teenage girls ruined"

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

If you liked the fiction plot in The Gaps by Leanne Hall , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. A Thousand Pardons

By: Jonathan Dee

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee's novels are masterful works of lit… read more

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2. The First Third

By: Will Kostakis

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Life is made up of three parts: in the first third, you're embarrassed by your family; in the secon… read more

Similar categories in Will Kostakis's The First Third book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

Cover of Day's End (Hirsch, #4) by Garry Disher

3. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

By: Garry Disher

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Day's End (Hirsch, #4) book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
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4. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's One Hundred Days book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • australia
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

Cover of Tilda Is Visible by Jane Tara

5. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible … read more

Similar categories in Jane Tara's Tilda Is Visible book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

Cover of A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide) by Laura Taylor Namey

6. A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

By: Laura Taylor Namey

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide) book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, …"

-Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

Cover of The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho

7. The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ho's The Silence that Binds Us book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Gaps by Leanne Hall

8. The Gaps

By: Leanne Hall

3.84

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be the one left behind? When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Hall's The Gaps book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
"Death is the worst kind of silence, and I don't want to be silent."

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"Where do they go, those girls that accidentally fall through a gap in the universe? What's on the other side?"

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"Why is it so easy to override what girls and women want, what they might decide if they were given any control."

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

"I see every fallen body on the cover of a crime novel, and I can't help thinking that everyone wants their teenage girls ruined"

-Leanne Hall, The Gaps

Cover of Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna

9. Girls in Boys' Cars

By: Felicity Castagna

3.42

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more

Similar categories in Felicity Castagna's Girls in Boys' Cars book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • young adult
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

Cover of Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer by Amy Doak

10. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
Cover of Waking Romeo by Kathryn  Barker

11. Waking Romeo

By: Kathryn Barker

3.87

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking t… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult
"If it wasn't some Epic Love Story, then it was just a tragedy."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

"I wonder what exactly happened in that additional chapter between us."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

"Once you've truly seen a person ... well, unlike with time, there really is no going back."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

Cover of The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel by Salva Rubio

12. The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel

By: Salva Rubio

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the in… read more

Similar categories in Salva Rubio's The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • young adult
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13. Inkflower

By: Suzy Zail

4.32

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more

Similar categories in Suzy Zail's Inkflower book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough

14. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

Similar categories in Gary Lonesborough's Ready When You Are book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • australia
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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15. Tiger Daughter

By: Rebecca Lim

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

IBBY Honour List 2024 A Kirkus, Booklist, She Reads and Amazon Best Book of 2023 Winner, People's… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Lim's Tiger Daughter book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • australia
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come."

-Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

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16. Rated

By: Melissa Grey

3.59

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Societies thrive on order, and the Rating System is the ultimate symbol of organized social mobilit… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Grey's Rated book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • high school
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Noah: you two go in, get summer’s necklace thingie, get out, bring it to me and javi Javi: You and me? Noah: yeah I was gonna go over to your place if that was ok Javi: def ok Tamsin: ooooooooohhhh H…"

-Melissa Grey, Rated

Cover of The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas

17. The Opposite of Success

By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas

3.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Elliott Thomas's The Opposite of Success book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn

18. Sugar Town Queens

By: Malla Nunn

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner and Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait … read more

Similar categories in Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. Two Can Play That Game

By: Leanne Yong

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Funny and romantic, an upbeat YA novel about gaming, goals and getting even from a fresh new voice … read more

Similar categories in Leanne Yong's Two Can Play That Game book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You go on being wrong about everything, Jaybird. I’ll be there to say “I told you so"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"Why can’t I simply be friends – or frenemies – with him? Is that so strange to both of you?"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"Because the only way you can change the world is by being a winner. Otherwise, the world at best ignores you, or at worst destroys you."

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"I only wish I could fix things for everyone that easily in real life. I mean, isn’t that why you play games, so you can pretend it’s possible?"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

Cover of A Glasshouse of Stars by Shirley Marr

20. A Glasshouse of Stars

By: Shirley Marr

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land, inherited from First Uncl… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Marr's A Glasshouse of Stars book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • fiction
  • young adult
"It is then you understand that Kevin isn't angry at the world; he's angry at himself."

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

"The promise touches your face softly and wraps itself gently around you, planting a seed of hope in your heart."

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

"Are you scared of the darkness?" Kevin asks you. "No," you say. With your answer, the black sky is at once filled with a million galaxies. It is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. "No," you…"

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

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21. How to Repaint a Life

By: Steven Herrick

3.92

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn’t plan on st… read more

Similar categories in Steven Herrick's How to Repaint a Life book and Leanne Hall's The Gaps

  • australia
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

Garry Disher

4.12

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One Hundred Days

Alice Pung

3.97

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Tilda Is Visible

Jane Tara

4.02

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A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

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3.62

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Linda Lael Miller

4.04

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Towards Yesterday

Paul Antony Jones

3.00

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Mari Mancusi

3.48

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3.64

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