5 Top coming of age books like Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta

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Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t…

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1. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Kindling

By: Traci Chee

3.76

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-r… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's Kindling book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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4. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina  Ixta

5. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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6. Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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9. There Is a Door in This Darkness

By: Kristin Cashore

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Cashore's There Is a Door in This Darkness book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Wander in the Dark

By: Jumata Emill

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's Wander in the Dark book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. Even If It Breaks Your Heart

By: Erin Hahn

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A heart-buckling ride of a romance by beloved author Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart is abo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Hahn's Even If It Breaks Your Heart book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Into the Sunken City

By: Dinesh Thiru

3.68

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the days are long, the money is tight, and the rai… read more

Similar categories in Dinesh Thiru's Into the Sunken City book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"The bravest of us always admit to being scared."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

"You see all the ways people lie to you, but none of the ways they care."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

"I grab her hands and say the words I so desperately want to believe. “We’re gonna be okay, Thara. I promise you—we’re gonna be okay."

-Dinesh Thiru, Into the Sunken City

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14. Ariel Crashes a Train

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Ariel Crashes a Train book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train

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15. The Atlas of Us

By: Kristin Dwyer

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Dwyer's The Atlas of Us book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Six Truths and a Lie

By: Ream Shukairy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more

Similar categories in Ream Shukairy's Six Truths and a Lie book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Call Me Iggy

By: Jorge Aguirre

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping i… read more

Similar categories in Jorge Aguirre's Call Me Iggy book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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18. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

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19. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

By: Paula Yoo

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact o… read more

Similar categories in Paula Yoo's Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • audiobook
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21. Chronically Dolores

By: Maya Van Wagenen

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called… read more

Similar categories in Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores book and Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

20 Top young adult books like Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl You Are Atlas

Renée Watson

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Lunar New Year Love Story

Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Kindling

Traci Chee

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Not Like Other Girls

Meredith Adamo

4.13

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20 Top fiction books like Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

Transform Your Habits

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

Transform Your Habits

Louder Than Hunger

John Schu

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Thirsty

Jas Hammonds

4.16

Transform Your Habits

On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

4.20

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