14 Best fiction books like Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan

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Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of…

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Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

1. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • romance
  • fiction
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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2. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • ireland
  • fiction
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3. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • poetry
  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
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4. Crossing the Line

By: Tia Fisher

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more

Similar categories in Tia Fisher's Crossing the Line book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • poetry
  • young adult
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5. Steady For This

By: Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

MEET MC GROWLS, WANNABE RAPPER AND STAR OF THE SHOW IN THIS HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING TEEN DEBUT. … read more

Similar categories in Nathanael Lessore's Steady For This book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • young adult
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6. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

Similar categories in Joseph Coelho's The Boy Lost in the Maze book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • poetry
  • family
  • young adult
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7. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

Similar categories in Hiba Noor Khan's Safiyyah's War book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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8. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • young adult
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9. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

By: Paloma Faith

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more

Similar categories in Paloma Faith's MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

Cover of The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! by Tom Ellen

10. The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls!

By: Tom Ellen

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Will is sleepwalking through life. He works a dead-end job and volunteers at an anonymous crisis li… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ellen's The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
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11. The Song Walker

By: Zillah Bethell

4.16

Format: None pages, None

"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more

Similar categories in Zillah Bethell's The Song Walker book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • young adult
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12. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • young adult
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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13. Glasgow Boys

By: Margaret McDonald

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • young adult
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14. Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • romance
  • poetry
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • ireland
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15. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

Cover of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

16. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dockrill's I Love You, I Love You, I Love You book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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17. A Drop of Golden Sun

By: Kate Saunders

4.45

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

It's 1973 and 10-year-old Jenny is in shock. She's just been cast as one of the lead roles in a fea… read more

Similar categories in Kate Saunders's A Drop of Golden Sun book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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18. The Wrong Shoes: The vital new novel from the bestselling creator of Big Bright Feelings

By: Tom Percival

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty from leading author/illust… read more

Similar categories in Tom Percival's The Wrong Shoes: The vital new novel from the bestselling creator of Big Bright Feelings book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

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19. Õiged mehed

By: Laura Evisalu

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Loo peategelane Riks on populaarne sportlik 11. klassi poiss, kes läheb elust võrdlemisi kergelt lä… read more

Similar categories in Laura Evisalu's Õiged mehed book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

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20. Dat met Leo

By: Stefan Boonen

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Ühel päeval Leod enam ei ole. See juhtub juba hommikul – ema ei jäta lauale kirjakest ja koolis ei … read more

Similar categories in Stefan Boonen's Dat met Leo book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

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21. King of Nothing

By: Nathanael Lessore

4.43

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

ANTON AND HIS FRIENDS ARE THE KINGS OF YEAR 9.They're used to ruling the school and Anton wears the… read more

Similar categories in Nathanael Lessore's King of Nothing book and Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be

11 Top young adult books like Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Crossing the Line

Tia Fisher

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

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The Boy Lost in the Maze

Joseph Coelho

3.82

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16 Top fiction books like Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

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