7 Best mental health books like The Cartographers by Amy Zhang

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The Cartographers

By: Amy Zhang

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Struggling to balance the expectations of her immigrant mother with her deep ambivalence about her …

If you liked the mental health plot in The Cartographers by Amy Zhang , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Suk's The Space Between Here & Now book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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3. Man o' War

By: Cory McCarthy

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimme… read more

Similar categories in Cory McCarthy's Man o' War book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after th…"

-Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

Cover of None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1) by Ellie Marney

4. None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1)

By: Ellie Marney

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial … read more

Similar categories in Ellie Marney's None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1) book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Do you think you're self aware, Emma?"

-Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1)

"Why are some guys so fucked up?’ ‘It’s a kind of sickness, I think. Or a defect of the soul."

-Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1)

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5. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Spell Bound

By: F.T. Lukens

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in t… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Spell Bound book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Sometimes a family was a mischievous magical boss, her magical rival turned friend, a magical girl who used to be a babysitter and now was like an older sister, and the person you didn't understand i…"

-F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

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7. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

By: Talia Hibbert

3.72

Format: 336 pages, ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud sto… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Are you worried about me, love?"

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"She's a pop of scarlet in the November fog."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"You're allowed anywhere you want, as long as you're right next to me."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

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8. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • cultural
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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9. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's We Are All So Good at Smiling book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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10. I'll Stop the World

By: Lauren Thoman

3.99

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

The end and the beginning become one in a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery about the power of f… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • fiction
  • young adult
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11. When We Were Infinite

By: Kelly Loy Gilbert

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

All Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends — Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, a… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Loy Gilbert's When We Were Infinite book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"If you had to think so hard about whether or not you want to be with someone, what was the point?"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

"What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking …"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

"In that moment, I saw myself as he saw me, I understood the shape I took in his life: I was, paradoxically, simultaneously too much and not enough. And all my life since then I had tried to rectify t…"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

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12. The Cartographers

By: Amy Zhang

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Struggling to balance the expectations of her immigrant mother with her deep ambivalence about her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Zhang's The Cartographers book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • cultural
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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13. Kings of B'more

By: R. Eric Thomas

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Two Black, queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore i… read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Kings of B'more book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Wildblood

By: Lauren Blackwood

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood!Eighteen-year-old V… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Blackwood's Wildblood book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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15. My Flawless Life

By: Yvonne Woon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A narrator grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. … read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Woon's My Flawless Life book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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16. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) by Abigail Hing Wen

17. Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Return to the sparkling world of Loveboat, this time with Pearl Wong, on an entirely new, romantic,… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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18. The Queens of New York

By: E.L. Shen

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian America… read more

Similar categories in E.L. Shen's The Queens of New York book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
"Freudian slips happen to the breast of us"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"Once you've bowed your head and burned the incense, the grief locks inside the coffin, shrouded underneath new grass and fertile soil. But I don't think Ariel has any grass at all."

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"I inhale with the waves flooding the shore. They are easy. They are mine. I can feel my heartbeat slowing. Bea may be in Queens underground, but for now, she is here. We are little girls again, on th…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"When I got my official acceptance letter in the mail, Umma immediately pinned it to the fridge. She took down my old tests to make room. This letter deserved the entire metal canvas. It was the culmi…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

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19. Age 16

By: Rosena Fung

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing dow… read more

Similar categories in Rosena Fung's Age 16 book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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20. The Minus-One Club

By: Kekla Magoon

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down , Light It Up , and… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's The Minus-One Club book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Wolfwood

By: Marianna Baer

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl begins secretly forging paintings, plunging her into a dark and dangerous imaginary … read more

Similar categories in Marianna Baer's Wolfwood book and Amy Zhang's The Cartographers

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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Sarah Suk

4.09

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A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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Man o' War

Cory McCarthy

4.39

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None Shall Sleep (None Shall Sleep, #1)

Ellie Marney

3.94

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.00

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Vera Brosgol

4.38

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Freshman Year

Sarah Mai

3.76

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Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

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