15 must-read romance books like The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson

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The Lucky Ones

By: Liz Lawson

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. …

If you liked the romance plot in The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Trouble Is a Friend of Mine (Trouble, #1) by Stephanie Tromly

1. Trouble Is a Friend of Mine (Trouble, #1)

By: Stephanie Tromly

3.97

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Of course I didn’t like Digby when I first met him. No one does. The first time Philip Digby sho… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Tromly's Trouble Is a Friend of Mine (Trouble, #1) book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Anyway, one of the few useful things I learned while I was getting my head shrunk is that when you get rejected a lot, you start to hear rejection all the time, everywhere, even when there hasn't bee…"

-Stephanie Tromly, Trouble Is a Friend of Mine (Trouble, #1)

2. Open Road Summer

By: Emery Lord

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O'Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's Open Road Summer book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

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3. Hope and Other Punchlines

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every othe… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Hope and Other Punchlines book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. You Know I'm No Good

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and William C. Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes the story of o… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. How to Make Friends with the Dark

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Always the universe, against you."

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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6. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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7. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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8. You'd Be Home Now

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.15

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's You'd Be Home Now book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"The air was better then."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

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9. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Agathas (The Agathas #1) book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."

-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

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11. Meet Me in the Middle

By: Alex Light

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A romance interrupted by tragedy sets two people on different paths in Wattpad superstar Alex Light… read more

Similar categories in Alex Light's Meet Me in the Middle book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I can’t swing right now. I’m obviously very busy doing nothing. And catching up on the chores I’ve spent the past three weeks putting off. I’m just a busy little bee today."

-Alex Light, Meet Me in the Middle

Cover of The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer

12. The Secret Recipe for Moving On

By: Karen Bischer

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Ellie is dumped by her boyfriend, she's forced to make new friends (while watching her ex swoo… read more

Similar categories in Karen Bischer's The Secret Recipe for Moving On book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Meet the Sky (Blink) by McCall Hoyle

13. Meet the Sky (Blink)

By: McCall Hoyle

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. The one… read more

Similar categories in McCall Hoyle's Meet the Sky (Blink) book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. No One Is Alone

By: Rachel Vincent

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Rachel Vincent comes a gripping and heartfelt story about a girl faced with… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Vincent's No One Is Alone book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. The Lucky Ones

By: Liz Lawson

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. … read more

Similar categories in Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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16. Coming Up for Air

By: Nicole Tyndall

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Nina LaCour and The Spectacular Now, a powerful coming-of-age story about a girl with c… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Tyndall's Coming Up for Air book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of How We Ricochet by Faith   Gardner

17. How We Ricochet

By: Faith Gardner

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Intimate, impactful, and incisive, this newest novel from Faith Gardner, critically acclaimed autho… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise by Laura  Silverman

18. Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

By: Laura Silverman

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I don't want to live my life behind a mask with no one to share who I am with."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

"...the choices we make--the choices that matter--aren't just the big, sweeping ones. Sometimes a meaningful choice is a simple choice, as simple as five words."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

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19. Time of Our Lives

By: Emily Wibberley

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A boy desperate to hold on, a girl ready to let go. Fitz Holton waits in fear for the day his si… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's Time of Our Lives book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Billionaires Don't Date Cheerleaders (Texting the Boyband, #2) by Clara Nielsen

20. Billionaires Don't Date Cheerleaders (Texting the Boyband, #2)

By: Clara Nielsen

4.01

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Why does a boyband need to go to high school anyway? When I sent out that tweet, I didn't exactl… read more

Similar categories in Clara Nielsen's Billionaires Don't Date Cheerleaders (Texting the Boyband, #2) book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult
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21. Bad At Love

By: Gabriela Martins

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tab… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Martins's Bad At Love book and Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

18 must-read fiction books like The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson

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Trouble Is a Friend of Mine (Trouble, #1)

Stephanie Tromly

3.97

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Hope and Other Punchlines

Julie Buxbaum

3.90

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You Know I'm No Good

Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

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How to Make Friends with the Dark

Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

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17 best-selling fiction books like What Kind of Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

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Phantom Limbs

Paula Garner

3.93

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The Sister Pact

Stacie Ramey

3.73

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What I Lost

Alexandra Ballard

3.69

SweetFreak

Sophie McKenzie

4.06

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