21 Top young adult books like Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn

Cover of Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn

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 …

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Cover of Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

1. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's Burn Down, Rise Up book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis

3. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Cover of The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

4. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Blackwoods book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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 All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

6. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel

By: Jessica Walton

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of fallin… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Walton's Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. 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 Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • young adult
  • mental health
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

11. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn

12. 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 Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • africa
  • south africa
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • audiobook
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13. Rust in the Root

By: Justina Ireland

4.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Rust in the Root book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

14. Gather

By: Kenneth M. Cadow

4.43

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recov… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth M. Cadow's Gather book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

15. The Blood Years

By: Elana K. Arnold

4.32

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's The Blood Years book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Perfectly Parvin (Perfectly Parvin, #1) by Olivia Abtahi

16. Perfectly Parvin (Perfectly Parvin, #1)

By: Olivia Abtahi

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to homecoming… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Abtahi's Perfectly Parvin (Perfectly Parvin, #1) book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Repaint a Life by Steven Herrick

17. 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 Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork

18. I Am Not Alone

By: Francisco X. Stork

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork revisits some of the themes and ideas that made Marcelo in … read more

Similar categories in Francisco X. Stork's I Am Not Alone book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
Cover of The Prince and the Coyote by David  Bowles

19. The Prince and the Coyote

By: David Bowles

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

1418 – Pre-Columbian Mexico Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to … read more

Similar categories in David Bowles's The Prince and the Coyote book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

20. Beating Heart Baby

By: Lio Min

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock When a… read more

Similar categories in Lio Min's Beating Heart Baby book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon

21. The Minus-One Club

By: Kekla Magoon

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down , Light It Up , and… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's The Minus-One Club book and Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

19 Top fiction books like Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn

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Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

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A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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The Blackwoods

Brandy Colbert

3.79

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All the Fighting Parts

Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

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Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

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This Is Why They Hate Us

Aaron H. Aceves

4.06

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The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

Aiden Thomas

4.33

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Canto Contigo

Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

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