18 must-read fiction books like Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

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Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

By: Nora Shalaway Carpenter

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in …

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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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy , a young adult… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

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4. Ghosted (Northanger Abbey, #1)

By: Amanda Quain

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in Amanda Quain's Ghosted, a gender-bent contemporary retelling… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. The Space Between Here & Now

By: Sarah Suk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.29

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe launched her career and in the years since has become a beloved favo… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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7. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

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8. Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid

By: Ngozi Ukazu

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

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  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. The Collectors

By: A.S. King

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-M… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's The Collectors book and Nora Shalaway Carpenter's Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Global

By: Eoin Colfer

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. The Shadow Sister

By: Lily Meade

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

By: Nora Shalaway Carpenter

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in … read more

Similar categories in Nora Shalaway Carpenter's Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes book and Nora Shalaway Carpenter's Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • anthologies
  • mental health
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
  • self help
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15. Isabel and the Rogue (The Luna Sisters, #2)

By: Liana De la Rosa

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis… read more

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  • audiobook
  • disability
  • mental health
Cover of Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

17. Ariel Crashes a Train

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train

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18. Wrath Becomes Her

By: Aden Polydoros

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a da… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"There is a mark on your brow,' I murmured, leaning forward to rest my forehead against his. 'And it means truth."

-Aden Polydoros, Wrath Becomes Her

"The thing about losing someone, it's like...You see something, and you think 'oh, they'll love this once I tell them' or 'I can't wait to share this with them,' but you can't. Because they're dead. S…"

-Aden Polydoros, Wrath Becomes Her

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19. An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

By: Deborah Noyes

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping tale of paranoia at its worst, An Outbreak of Witchcraft visually imagines the haunting … read more

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20. Into the Light

By: Mark Oshiro

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When you're like me, you have to lie. It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Plays Well with Others

By: Sophie Brickman

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Abdi Nazemian

4.46

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Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

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Amanda Quain

3.74

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3.77

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Elizabeth Everett

3.60

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Alicia Thompson

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