21 Best fiction books like After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson

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After the Ink Dries

By: Cassie Gustafson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean when you thought you knew someone? What does it mean when that person is your new…

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1. The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explain… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Waiting for Normal

By: Leslie Connor

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

School Library JournalBest Book * ALA Notable Children's Book * New York Public Library's "One Hund… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Connor's Waiting for Normal book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Story of a Girl

By: Sara Zarr

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend--Deanna Lambert's … read more

Similar categories in Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

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

4. All in Pieces

By: Suzanne Young

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

"Anger-management issues." That's how they classified Savannah Sutton after she stuck a pencil in h… read more

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5. Braced

By: Alyson Gerber

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first contemporary novel about a disorder that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers:… read more

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6. Tricks (Tricks, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. … read more

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7. Rumor Game

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Disney has bought Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton's Rumor Game, a contemporary YA that follo… read more

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8. Howl

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's Howl book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • young adult
  • mental health
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9. 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 Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"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

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10. The Bridge

By: Bill Konigsberg

4.00

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time.… read more

Similar categories in Bill Konigsberg's The Bridge book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. The Mary Shelley Club

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.92

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few sch… read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's The Mary Shelley Club book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Fear is where the truth lies."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"He's the Stu to my Billy Loomis"

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"We were staked out at the playground across the street, an optimal vantage for us to watch the house, and for me to watch Bram watch his girlfriend get scared."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

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13. I Killed Zoe Spanos

By: Kit Frick

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"In that moment, his expression changes, geniality sliding away into something between awe and dread. “Zoe?"

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"But there are some secrets—my secrets—that Windermere will hold forever, trapped beneath the ash like spilled blood."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

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14. Dark Room Etiquette

By: Robin Roe

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything—until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him his whole … read more

Similar categories in Robin Roe's Dark Room Etiquette book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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15. The Brightwood Code

By: Monica Hesse

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seven months ago Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” femal… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's The Brightwood Code book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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16. We Can Be Heroes

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kyrie McCauley, author of If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's We Can Be Heroes book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So…"

-Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

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17. Fadeaway

By: E.B. Vickers

3.88

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

When a high school basketball star goes missing, a town’s secrets are exposed in this edge-of-your … read more

Similar categories in E.B. Vickers's Fadeaway book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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18. Tonight We Rule the World

By: Zack Smedley

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Deposing Nathan comes an explosive examination of identity,… read more

Similar categories in Zack Smedley's Tonight We Rule the World book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Those Who Prey

By: Jennifer Moffett

3.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sadie meets The Girls in this riveting debut psychological thriller about a lonely college freshman… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Moffett's Those Who Prey book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Plein-Ciel

By: Siècle Vaëlban

4.28

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Sur l'île de la Nébuleuse, l'Opéra Plein-Ciel fait la pluie et le beau temps, et chacune de ses rep… read more

Similar categories in Siècle Vaëlban's Plein-Ciel book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • romance
  • young adult
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21. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

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22. You're Next

By: Kylie Schachte

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a girl with a troubled history of finding dead bodies investigates the murder of her ex, she u… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Schachte's You're Next book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. Murder for the Modern Girl

By: Kendall Kulper

3.80

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Gatsby-era glamour, a swoon-worthy love story, and an indomitable heroine dazzle in this romp that … read more

Similar categories in Kendall Kulper's Murder for the Modern Girl book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • romance
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
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24. Wander in the Dark

By: Jumata Emill

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's Wander in the Dark book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. After the Ink Dries

By: Cassie Gustafson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean when you thought you knew someone? What does it mean when that person is your new… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • drama
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26. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the univers… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. A Crooked Mark

By: Linda Kao

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"A dark, twisting coming-of-age sure to leave readers glancing over their shoulder for the Devil. K… read more

Similar categories in Linda Kao's A Crooked Mark book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • young adult
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28. The Prized Girl

By: Amy K. Green

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Amy K. Green comes a devastating tale of psychological suspense: a teen pageant q… read more

Similar categories in Amy K. Green's The Prized Girl book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
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29. Tell Me No Lies

By: Andrea Contos

3.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Riverdale meets Gone Girl in a shocking thriller about two sisters whose bond is tested when one gi… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Contos's Tell Me No Lies book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
"The worst thing you can do to a man is force him to admit the things he's done."

-Andrea Contos, Tell Me No Lies

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30. Ne pars pas sans moi

By: Jennifer Niven

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea et son frère Ezra ont toujours été là l'un pour l'autre. Même dans les moments les plus dificil… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's Ne pars pas sans moi book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • young adult
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31. Blissful Land, Vol. 4

By: Ichimon Izumi

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Khang Zhipa is a doctor-in-training. Moti Rati is his fiancée. After the Horse Racing Festival, the… read more

Similar categories in Ichimon Izumi's Blissful Land, Vol. 4 book and Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries

  • romance

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Leslie Connor

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