19 must-read fiction books like Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

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Crying Laughing

By: Lance Rubin

3.81

Format: 336 pages, None

Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilario…

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Cover of Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1) by Shannon Messenger

1. Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)

By: Shannon Messenger

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Vane Weston should have died in the category-five tornado that killed his parents. Instead, he woke… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Messenger's Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1) book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Violence isn't the answer."

-Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)

"Hope. Such a funny, fickle thing. We need a lot of it right now."

-Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)

"Who is this woman, and what has she done with my ever worrying mother?"

-Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)

"Come to me swiftly, carry no trace. Lift me softly, then flow and race."

-Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)

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2. Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

By: Julie Murphy

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has … read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1) book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I want to be with you,"

-Julie Murphy, Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

"My mind is a maze and I'm chasing a shadow."

-Julie Murphy, Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

"you don't always have to win a pageant to wear a crown"

-Julie Murphy, Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

"Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world."

-Julie Murphy, Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

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3. Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)

By: Emmy Laybourne

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You d… read more

Similar categories in Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1) book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"There I saw Chloe, freshly bathed, wrapped in a towel, eating fun-size butterfingers one after another like a chain smoker and watching me like I was her soap opera."

-Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)

"Night came and fell hard. Not like God drawing a blanket over our land But like someone snuffing a candle. Sudden and total. Out—just like that. Now we are waiting. Waiting in the dark To see if some…"

-Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)

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4. Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

By: Sungju Lee , Susan Elizabeth McClelland

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the … read more

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5. Sunrise Over Fallujah

By: Walter Dean Myers

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers, whose bestselling … read more

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6. The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Fort book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1

By: Celina Frenn

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series is … read more

Similar categories in Celina Frenn's Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1 book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Not Here to Stay Friends

By: Kaitlyn Hill

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This friends-to-lovers spin on The Bachelor follows two childhood besties reuniting to spend the su… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Hill's Not Here to Stay Friends book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • 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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10. A Breath Too Late

By: Rocky Callen

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Girl in Pieces, All the Bright Places, and Girl, Interrupted comes a haunting and breat… read more

Similar categories in Rocky Callen's A Breath Too Late book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"And then I told our story. Without our names. Without this town. I told a story of swords and sorrow and secrets. I told of a shadow who learned to breathe and a boy who learned to paint the world br…"

-Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

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11. Smaller Sister

By: Maggie Edkins Willis

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confi… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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12. J.D. and the Great Barber Battle (J.D. the Kid Barber)

By: J. Dillard

3.86

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious n… read more

Similar categories in J. Dillard's J.D. and the Great Barber Battle (J.D. the Kid Barber) book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. The Art of Insanity

By: Christine Webb

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

High schooler Natalie Cordova has just been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. Her mom insists she ke… read more

Similar categories in Christine Webb's The Art of Insanity book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

15. This Will Be Funny Someday

By: Katie Henry

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to … read more

Similar categories in Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"The world wants girls to be pretty and polite,’ Mo says. ‘And careful and deferential and selfless. You can’t be any of those things onstage. The world is a better place when you’re onstage."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

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16. 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 Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • 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)

Cover of Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize by Margo Rabb

17. Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

By: Margo Rabb

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times at the boarding school her parents en… read more

Similar categories in Margo Rabb's Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I'm not something you fix like a broken plate or revise like a term paper. I'm a person. You love a person by accepting who they are, not constantly fixing them or trying to shape or change or teach …"

-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

"They didn't believe me," I told Jack. "What kind of evidence do you and the police need? The killer to stick a knife in someone's neck in front of you and say, I'm committing murder right now-please …"

-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

Cover of Killer Content by Kiley Roache

18. Killer Content

By: Kiley Roache

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Knives Out meets One of Us is Lying! In this paperback original thriller a group of famous TikToker… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Roache's Killer Content book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Star Splitter

By: Matthew J. Kirby

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unra… read more

Similar categories in Matthew J. Kirby's Star Splitter book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Crying Laughing by Lance   Rubin

20. Crying Laughing

By: Lance Rubin

3.81

Format: 336 pages, None

Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilario… read more

Similar categories in Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • romance
  • teen
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of We Speak in Storms by Natalie  Lund

21. We Speak in Storms

By: Natalie Lund

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and haunting debut novel about friendship, acceptance, and learning to let go as the bal… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lund's We Speak in Storms book and Lance Rubin's Crying Laughing

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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Julie Murphy

3.89

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4.31

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4.12

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Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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