12 must-read contemporary books like The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

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The Beginning of Everything

By: Robyn Schneider

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them--a single encounter after…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

1. Say What You Will

By: Cammie McGovern

3.64

Format: 218 pages, ebook

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully writt… read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"WHY DID YOU TELL PEOPLE MY ESSAY WASN’T TRUE?"

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

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2. A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The unrequited love of the girl next door is the centerpiece of this fiercely funny, yet heart-brea… read more

Similar categories in Jared Reck's A Short History of the Girl Next Door book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Never Always Sometimes

By: Adi Alsaid

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Never date your best friend. Always be original. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. B… read more

Similar categories in Adi Alsaid's Never Always Sometimes book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love was lazy as hell."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

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4. Tell Me Three Things

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's what it feels like during her first week of juni… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Tell Me Three Things book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

5. The Beginning of Everything

By: Robyn Schneider

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them--a single encounter after… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Side Effects May Vary

By: Julie Murphy

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, she vows to spend her final months righting… read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Side Effects May Vary book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Sun Is Also a Star

By: Nicola Yoon

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will n… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's The Sun Is Also a Star book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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 Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

9. As You Wish

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could ask for anything- and get it? In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's As You Wish book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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11. Looking for Alaska

By: John Green

3.97

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big no… read more

Similar categories in John Green's Looking for Alaska book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"We are greater than the sum of our parts."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Have you really read all those books in your room?"

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

12. The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)

By: E. Lockhart

5.00

Format: None pages,

Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it's unusual, but give her a break--she's had a rough… read more

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13. This Is What Happy Looks Like (This is What Happy Looks Like, #1)

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

If fate sent you an email, would you answer? When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sen… read more

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14. Holding Up the Universe

By: Jennifer Niven

4.07

Format: None pages,

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's… read more

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15. What to Say Next

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Two struggling teenagers find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Sometimes a new… read more

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16. Every Last Word

By: Tamara Ireland Stone

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of… read more

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17. All the Bright Places

By: Jennifer Niven , None

4.12

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Is today a good day to die?"

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Never bullshit a bullshitter."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"People rarely bring flowers to a suicide."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

18. Winger (Winger, #1)

By: Andrew Smith

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Nort… read more

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19. Everything, Everything

By: Nicola Yoon , None

3.97

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basical… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything book and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A photograph is a kind of time machine."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"You're not living if you're not regretting."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

20. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

By: Jesse Andrews

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social … read more

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21. The Spectacular Now

By: Tim Tharp

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about fil… read more

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13 Top fiction books like The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Transform Your Habits

Say What You Will

Cammie McGovern

3.64

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A Short History of the Girl Next Door

Jared Reck

3.86

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Never Always Sometimes

Adi Alsaid

3.25

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Tell Me Three Things

Julie Buxbaum

3.64

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Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

3.95

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If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

Gayle Forman

3.92

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John Green

3.97

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The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

4.13

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