11 must-read romance books like The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson

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The Art of Breaking Things

By: Laura Sibson

4.16

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Zarr, one girl embraces the power of her voice: …

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1. The Female of the Species

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft kno… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Female of the Species book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. When We Collided

By: Emery Lord

3.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stron… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's When We Collided book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. My Sunshine Away

By: M.O. Walsh

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"It was the summer everything changed...." My Sunshine Awayunfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood be… read more

Similar categories in M.O. Walsh's My Sunshine Away book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult

4. Pulse (Pulse, #1)

By: Patrick Carman

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

In the year 2051, who has a pulse? With the help of her mysterious classmate Dylan Gilmore, Faith D… read more

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5. The Weight of Zero

By: None

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen-year-old Cath knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Cath… read more

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6. I Stop Somewhere

By: T.E. Carter

3.71

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Ellie Frias disappeared long before she vanished. Tormented throughout middle school, Ellie begins … read more

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7. Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“Jane” was just your typical 17-year-old getting ready to start her senior year. She had a part-tim… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Faria Stolarz's Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1) book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. How It Feels to Float

By: Helena Fox

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more

Similar categories in Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

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9. How to Make Friends with the Dark

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Always the universe, against you."

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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10. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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12. The Year After You

By: Nina de Pass

4.01

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

San Francisco. New Year's Eve. A tragic accident after the party of the year. Cara survives. Her be… read more

Similar categories in Nina de Pass's The Year After You book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People always hurt the people they care about, that's why it hurts so much"

-Nina de Pass, The Year After You

" there are two types of lies white and black. white lies are justifiable, because you tell them to protect other people, but there is no justifying black ones_  those are just told to protect yourself"

-Nina de Pass, The Year After You

"– Vous apprendrez que le temps guérit bien des blessures… – Le temps donne du recul, c’est tout. Il aide à oublier, seulement je n’oublierai jamais ce qui s’est passé, alors comment voulez-vous qu’il…"

-Nina de Pass, The Year After You

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13. 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 Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. The Art of Breaking Things

By: Laura Sibson

4.16

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Zarr, one girl embraces the power of her voice: … read more

Similar categories in Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Be Not Far from Me book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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16. The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Moira Dreyfuss's parents announce that they're sending her to an all-girls boarding school dee… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's The Castle School (for Troubled Girls) book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. I Hope You Get This Message

By: Farah Naz Rishi

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days. When news stations start reporting th… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's I Hope You Get This Message book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Being gay is not a fruit-borne disease, you idiot."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Only five seconds of thought stand between you and a crap-ton of regret."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Just because you’ve lost all hope doesn’t mean you get to throw out hope for all of us."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"The thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

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18. Sometime in Summer

By: Katrina Leno

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From critically acclaimed author Katrina Leno comes a tender love letter to books and summertime, w… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Sometime in Summer book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Aftermath

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.06

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Aftermath book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Unscripted

By: Nicole Kronzer

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A funny and timely debut YA about the toxic masculinity at a famous improv comedy camp Seventeen… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Kronzer's Unscripted book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Significant others are like airplane Wi-Fi."

-Nicole Kronzer, Unscripted

"I’m not Catholic, but I read somewhere nuns are, statistically speaking, really happy. And they live super long lives. With other women. Caring for one another, not worrying about boys—well, except f…"

-Nicole Kronzer, Unscripted

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21. More Than Just a Pretty Face

By: Syed M. Masood

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han, a sweetly funny YA rom-com debut about falling in love,… read more

Similar categories in Syed M. Masood's More Than Just a Pretty Face book and Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien."

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

"Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?" I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. "I'm an absolutely gorgeous face."

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

"Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind…"

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

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Jeff Zentner

4.46

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