The Museum of Broken Things
By: Lauren Draper
4.00
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one…
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1. Girls in Boys' Cars
By: Felicity Castagna
3.42
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more
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- romance
- mystery
- young adult
- contemporary
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
2. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer
By: Amy Doak
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more
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- mystery
- young adult
- contemporary
3. The Other Side of Tomorrow
By: Hayley Lawrence
4.23
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever … read more
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- young adult
4. Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over
By: Miranda Luby
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Unknown Binding
Sadie Starr is obsessed with starting over. A new year, a new diet, a new social media identity. An… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
5. Completely Normal (and other lies)
By: Biffy James
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
6. Let’s Never Speak of This Again
By: Megan Williams
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
7. Inkflower
By: Suzy Zail
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more
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- romance
- young adult
8. It Sounded Better in My Head
By: Nina Kenwood
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender, funny, and compulsively readable novel about first l… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really)."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.' 'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
9. Tiger Daughter
By: Rebecca Lim
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
IBBY Honour List 2024 A Kirkus, Booklist, She Reads and Amazon Best Book of 2023 Winner, People's… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come."-Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter
10. The Cult of Romance
By: Sarah Ayoub
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"Who needs electricity? The room is enveloped in darkness, but inside it, I'm seeing light."-Sarah Ayoub, The Cult of Romance
11. Anything But Fine
By: Tobias Madden
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
"What is it about hot jocks being dorky that is so impossible to resist?"-Tobias Madden, Anything But Fine
12. The Quiet and the Loud
By: Helena Fox
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from … read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"And for a moment - here, now - we aren't the pregnant girl or the quiet girl. We aren't scared of death, or of memories oozing out of the dark. We are two girls, suspended. Timeless. Immense. Untouch…"-Helena Fox, The Quiet and the Loud
13. We Who Hunt The Hollow (Hollow, #1)
By: Kate Murray
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A firecracker urban fantasy about the youngest daughter of a family of women warriors, and the powe… read more
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- romance
- young adult
14. Unnecessary Drama
By: Nina Kenwood
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enem… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- young adult
- contemporary
15. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
By: Wai Chim
4.01
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
16. Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell
By: Tobias Madden
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
There Are No Cheat Codes for Showmance Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one frie… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"But still, despite all of this . . . I’m in love. It’s irrational. It’s irresponsible. But it’s irrevocable."-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell
"Because my curiosity is killing me? Because I’m reckless and ridiculous? Because I’m suddenly one step closer to meeting the love of my life?"-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell
"I place my hands in his, my stupid heart skipping a beat when our palms make contact. ‘You good?’ he asks. I bite my lip to keep from grinning like a fool. ‘Yep."-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell
17. Dancing Barefoot
By: Alice Boyle
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Evie Vanhoutte is a teacher… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
18. Stuck Up & Stupid
By: Angourie Rice
3.05
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A modern trans-Pacific twist on Pride and Prejudice, from an authentic team of debut authors who kn… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
19. Here for the Right Reasons
By: Jodi McAlister
3.62
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom … read more
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- romance
- contemporary
20. The Museum of Broken Things
By: Lauren Draper
4.00
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- young adult
- contemporary
- mystery
21. The Killing Code
By: Ellie Marney
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for f… read more
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- mystery
- young adult
"I am the code you never broke, and I don't play by the rules."-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code
22. Girls Who Burn
By: M.K. Pagano
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A twisty, pulse-pounding enemies-to-lovers thriller full of secrets, privilege, and murder. The… read more
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- romance
- mystery
- young adult
- contemporary
23. Social Queue
By: Kay Kerr
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs.' Zoe Kelly is … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
"It bothers me how people need the truth to be sugar-coated to be palatable. And that it's my job to remember the sugar."-Kay Kerr, Social Queue
"I’ve been trying to motivate myself to have a shower for the last forty-five minutes, but so far all I’ve managed to do is get my underwear out of the drawer and lie back down on the bed. Having a sh…"-Kay Kerr, Social Queue
24. The Jammer
By: Nova Weetman
4.27
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Fred has moved around her whole life, one small town after another, and never minded starting over.… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
25. Wrong Answers Only
By: Tobias Madden
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only.Marco should be at un… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
26. Can't Say it Went to Plan
By: Gabrielle Tozer
3.14
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of The Intern, Faking It and Remind Me How This Ends. School's out… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
27. We Could Be Something
By: Will Kostakis
3.97
Format: 401 pages, Paperback
Part Coming-Out Story. Part falling-in-love story. Part falling-apart story. Harvey's dads… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"Right now, I'm not sure I can get a book about a gay teenager through acquisitions. The schools market factors heavily into our thinking and they won't let it fly."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
"Just because you released one novel doesn't mean you're owed a career, Sotiris. That isn't how the book world works. There are so many names I only ever see on one title."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
28. What's Murder Between Friends
By: Meg Gatland-Veness
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
'I think it was one of us,' Walter says … 'We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone's thinking it, … read more
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- mystery
- young adult
- contemporary
29. Triple threat
By: Katy Warner
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A contemporary young adult novel about musical theatre, first romance and standing up for yourself … read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
"There is no straight line to success."-Katy Warner, Triple threat
30. The Wedding Forecast
By: Nina Kenwood
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Anna was never going to have an easy time at her best friend’s wedding. She’s the bridesmaid; her e… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
31. A Little Spark
By: Barry Jonsberg
4.11
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hea… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
