19 Best fiction books like This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

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This Will Be Funny Someday

By: Katie Henry

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to …

"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

If you liked the fiction plot in This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Trouble Makes a Comeback (Trouble, #2) by Stephanie Tromly

1. Trouble Makes a Comeback (Trouble, #2)

By: Stephanie Tromly

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"How do you like life in the fast lane?" Digby said. "Is it everything you thought it would be?" Go… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Tromly's Trouble Makes a Comeback (Trouble, #2) book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Nigeria Jones

By: Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Nigeria Jones book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Lucky Caller

By: Emma Mills

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Nina decides to take a radio broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk i… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mills's Lucky Caller book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The perfect comeback only comes to you way after the offending incident, most especially when you’re alone in the shower with no one but the shampoo bottle to tell it to."

-Emma Mills, Lucky Caller

"So when I said that I'd always be your friend, I meant that... I always want to be there for you, no matter what. No matter which way. And if you don't feel the same way, that's okay. I understand. I…"

-Emma Mills, Lucky Caller

"And my mom told me that part of growing up is just … learning that people come in and out of your life, and that there are all kinds of levels of friendship, all different types. And maybe you’ll mak…"

-Emma Mills, Lucky Caller

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5. Three Things I Know Are True

By: Betty Culley

4.08

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident tha… read more

Similar categories in Betty Culley's Three Things I Know Are True book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The sounds Mom made were worse than Jonah's. So now the nurses call me."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"I have a theory about friendship. One friend is always nicer. Jonah made everyone laugh. He could talk to anyone about anything, but Clay was nicer."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"I know how that is-- how the worst thing is right where you least expect it to be-- in your lungs, in your chest, in the attic of the house right across the street."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"So impatient to start his big life, to make people laugh, to see what would happen. Doing anything for a dare. So afraid he'd be stuck in Maddigan, Maine, for the rest of his life."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

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6. Creep: A Love Story

By: Lygia Day Peñaflor

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You  meets  To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before  in this twisted, tragic love story that follows Holy… read more

Similar categories in Lygia Day Peñaflor's Creep: A Love Story book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I think about how I'm controlling the present so that someday I will have controlled the past, and I think I understand."

-Lygia Day Peñaflor, Creep: A Love Story

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7. Punching Bag

By: Rex Ogle

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Punching Bag book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Hollow Inside

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Sadie meets The Glass Castle in a smart, gripping, and twisty YA debut about a girl seeking to reve… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's The Hollow Inside book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

9. This Will Be Funny Someday

By: Katie Henry

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to … read more

Similar categories in Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"The world wants girls to be pretty and polite,’ Mo says. ‘And careful and deferential and selfless. You can’t be any of those things onstage. The world is a better place when you’re onstage."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

Cover of Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

10. Bad Girls Never Say Die

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Moxie comes a gripping gender-flipped reimagining of The Outsiders tha… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's Bad Girls Never Say Die book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Year I Stopped Trying by Katie Heaney

11. The Year I Stopped Trying

By: Katie Heaney

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

Booksmart meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel of overachieving, existential crises,… read more

Similar categories in Katie Heaney's The Year I Stopped Trying book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I did not even want to know myself."

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

"I do want to be told exactly what to do, I just don't want them to act like I don't know what I'm doing"

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

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12. Green

By: Alex Gino

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of MELISSA, a new book putting a non-binary kid named Green at center s… read more

Similar categories in Alex Gino's Green book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Crying Laughing by Lance   Rubin

13. Crying Laughing

By: Lance Rubin

3.81

Format: 336 pages, None

Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilario… read more

Similar categories in Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Six Truths and a Lie by Ream Shukairy

14. 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 Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Screen Queens

By: Lori Goldstein

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Bold Type meets The Social Network when three girls vying for prestigious summer internships th… read more

Similar categories in Lori Goldstein's Screen Queens book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Fly by Kimberly   Jones

16. Why We Fly

By: Kimberly Jones

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a compelling YA novel about th… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Jones's Why We Fly book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon

17. Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions

By: Navdeep Singh Dhillon

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sandhya Menon and Adam Silvera, a prom-night romantic-comedy romp about a Sikh teen's s… read more

Similar categories in Navdeep Singh Dhillon's Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • young adult contemporary
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Subject of Unmentionable Things by Julia Walton

18. On the Subject of Unmentionable Things

By: Julia Walton

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully a… read more

Similar categories in Julia Walton's On the Subject of Unmentionable Things book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Like Home

By: Louisa Onomé

3.62

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Netflix's On My Block, In the Heights, and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Ibi Zoboi wi… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Onomé's Like Home book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Shark Night

By: R.L. Stine

3.58

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author R. L. Stine, Shark Night is a terrifying seafaring advent… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's Shark Night book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • young adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

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