5 Best science fiction books like Prepped by Bethany Mangle

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Prepped

By: Bethany Mangle

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Jeff Zentner and Katie Henry comes a thrilling and funny debut about a teen raised in a…

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1. The Contender

By: Robert Lipsyte

3.64

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highsc… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
"It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. "

-Robert Lipsyte, The Contender

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2. Forever...

By: Judy Blume

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more

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  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

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3. The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

By: Robert Cormier

3.49

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Ref… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They murdered him."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

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4. Under Rose-Tainted Skies

By: Louise Gornall

3.97

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Norah has accepted that the four walls of her house delineate her life. She knows tha… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But it's like my mind and my brain are two separte thing, working against each other."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"It's such a noble word, unconditional. Brave. Blindly committing to situations it knows nothing about."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"I this I could reach out, put a hand on his shoulder, and ask him if he is all right. A side effect of worrying about everything and everyone; I cry at least once a week over things that shouldn't co…"

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

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5. The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)

By: Paul Zindel

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  When sophomores John and Lorraine p… read more

Similar categories in Paul Zindel's The Pigman (The Pigman, #1) book and Bethany Mangle's Prepped

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • teen
  • young adult

6. Day of Tears

By: Julius Lester

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, G… read more

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7. Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)

By: Francesca Lia Block

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1989 Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become… read more

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8. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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9. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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10. The Truth Project

By: Dante Medema

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school.… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"I've been cut open and spread out so everyone can see how every moment my heart pumps is a moment it bleeds."

-Dante Medema, The Truth Project

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11. Remind Me to Hate You Later

By: Lizzy Mason

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story about the pressures of social media, the lengths influencers will go to for fame, and the g… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I mean, yeah, it sounds weird,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"A friend told me once that grief is the cost of love,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"The pain of losing someone you love never goes away entirely,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"Her motive wasn’t to offend anyone, but scrutiny is part of being a public figure. And you don’t get to decide who you offend."

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

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12. Prepped

By: Bethany Mangle

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Jeff Zentner and Katie Henry comes a thrilling and funny debut about a teen raised in a… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Mangle's Prepped book and Bethany Mangle's Prepped

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • family
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13. The Electric Kingdom

By: David Arnold

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the sur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • young adult
"We're still here."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"Is your mom dead?"

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only twelve-year-old in the world."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"But listening was about more than hearing; it was about when and where you put yourself in the story."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

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14. Brooms

By: Jasmine Walls

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of This Is Not the Jess Show (This Is Not the Jess Show, #1) by Anna Carey

15. This Is Not the Jess Show (This Is Not the Jess Show, #1)

By: Anna Carey

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Like many teens, sometimes it feels as though everything in Jess Flynn's life has been engineered f… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
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16. Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Exactly Where You Need to Be

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Turtles All the Way Down meets Love and Luck in this “lively” ( Publishers Weekly ), romantic road … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My OCD is a speed bumb, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"My OCD is a speed bump, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"As people, as humans, we constantly make mistakes. But we're allowed to grow, to change. There's beauty in that."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"Lauren the therapist always tells me that the only person I can compare myself to are the former versions of myself."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

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18. Layoverland

By: Gabby Noone

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two teens, one stuck atoning for her sins and one destined for heaven, fall in love in purgatory in… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. My Fine Fellow

By: Jennieke Cohen

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"He still believed more people existed in the world who didn’t ask questions—and not because they didn’t know to ask them. No, they didn’t ask because they only wanted the answers they’d created in th…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Elijah had spiced them with thyme, cumin, and mustard seeds in clever proportions so that no one spice overpowered the others. Toasted hazelnuts brought a crunch she hadn't expected, and the dried, t…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Remember that the first thing anyone does is eat with their eyes. Before the diner even takes a single bite, what they see, hear, and smell is what will often entice them to eat---or to partake of so…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Princess Adelaide hadn't shown him any particular favor, but she had seemed to enjoy his freshly made pasta colored with squid ink and peppered throughout with clams, mussels, more squid, and roasted…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

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20. Gone Wolf

By: Amber McBride

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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21. This Is Not the Real World (This Is Not the Jess Show, #2)

By: Anna Carey

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the explosive, thrilling sequel to This Is Not the Jess Show, 18-year-old Jess is out for reveng… read more

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  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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22. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O'Neal

23. Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

By: Kristen O'Neal

3.97

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

“Your next favorite horror-comedy.”—Syfy Fangrrls Teen Wolf meets Emergency Contact in this shar… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"She said that being a woman means everyone hates your body, and your body hates you."

-Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

"People definitely saw me throw a chair at the vending machine,' Spencer says. 'I figure we've got three minutes before security finds us."

-Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

"I remember what it felt like to see teeth there, and I catalogue the feeling of seeing the kernels instead, white and burst open. If the teeth were seeds, they look like flowers now, fully bloomed."

-Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

"Have you been keeping count this entire time?' I ask frowning. 'Yeah, dude,' he says turning the screen of his phone towards me. 'I downloaded a period tracker app.' I blurt out a laugh, covering my …"

-Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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24. Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is a word Mateo Garcia and his younger sister Sophie have been taught to fear for as long as … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aleman's Indivisible book and Bethany Mangle's Prepped

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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25. The Wilderness of Girls

By: Madeline Claire Franklin

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Claire Franklin's The Wilderness of Girls book and Bethany Mangle's Prepped

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of A Warning About Swans by R.M. Romero

26. A Warning About Swans

By: R.M. Romero

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Swan Lake meets The Last Unicorn by way of the Brothers Grimm in a dreamy, original fairytale in ve… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's A Warning About Swans book and Bethany Mangle's Prepped

  • romance
  • young adult
Cover of I Kick and I Fly by Ruchira Gupta

27. I Kick and I Fly

By: Ruchira Gupta

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira … read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson

28. Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters

By: Emily Roberson

3.47

Format: 352 pages, None

Sixteen-year-old Ariadne’s whole life is curated and shared with the world. Her royal family’s ente… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor

29. The Calculation of You and Me

By: Serena Kaylor

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks st… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow

30. The Girl with No Reflection

By: Keshe Chow

3.44

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman chosen as the crown prince’s bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new hu… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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31. Light It Up

By: Kekla Magoon

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, l… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

28 best-selling fiction books like Prepped by Bethany Mangle

Transform Your Habits

The Contender

Robert Lipsyte

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Forever...

Judy Blume

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

Robert Cormier

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Under Rose-Tainted Skies

Louise Gornall

3.97

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14 best-selling fiction books like Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson

Transform Your Habits

Song of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #2)

Stephanie Dray

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Dollmaker of Krakow

R.M. Romero

4.09

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When Ashish Met Sweetie

Sandhya Menon

4.07

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If I Should Die (Revenants, #3)

Amy Plum

4.20

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