16 must-read contemporary books like Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass

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Where the Rhythm Takes You

By: Sarah Dass

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Toba…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Love Radio

By: Ebony LaDelle

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a pop… read more

Similar categories in Ebony LaDelle's Love Radio book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • music
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"It's crazy how a relationship can be over long before you both call it quits."

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

"That's what love looks like. It's not always about the flowers and grand gestures, but this right here. Being completely yourself with another person in the moment, and them accepting no less of you."

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

"And now I'm realising it's ok to let toxicity go, even if it used to be good at one point. What matters is how does it make you feel now, and right now nothing about Destiny makes me believe she care…"

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

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2. The Patron Saint of Second Chances

By: Christine Simon

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the… read more

Similar categories in Christine Simon's The Patron Saint of Second Chances book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I am just saying, no one can be here forever. And that is why it matters what you choose to do if God gives you the chance."

-Christine Simon, The Patron Saint of Second Chances

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3. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

By: Joya Goffney

4.08

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is the story of an overly enthusiastic list… read more

Similar categories in Joya Goffney's Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them."

-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

"Cowards will do anything to feel safe, to feel in control. I used to be a coward, too, but the first brave thing I ever did was to stop being your friend."

-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

"Because I realized today that that’s what I did to you. I forced you to get naked before you were ready. And I’m disgusted at myself for doing that to you."

-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

"I think to myself, If I can still move, what I’m gon’ be still for? Maybe because I’m too scared to move. Because if I move, people might see me. Because staying still is easier."

-Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

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4. Happily Ever Afters (Happily Ever Afters, #1)

By: Elise Bryant

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely se… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's Happily Ever Afters (Happily Ever Afters, #1) book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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5. My Week with Him

By: Joya Goffney

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A cute portrait of agency, hope, and intergenerational trauma by Goffney. "— Publishers Weekly A J… read more

Similar categories in Joya Goffney's My Week with Him book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. What We Were Promised

By: Lucy Tan

3.54

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Tan's What We Were Promised book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

Similar categories in Mary Laura Philpott's Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
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8. Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

By: Elise Bryant

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. S… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • music
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. To Night Owl from Dogfish

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in N… read more

Similar categories in Holly Goldberg Sloan's To Night Owl from Dogfish book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Here's what we have seen: The way one story ends but then starts up again. The way families are made from people who want to be together more than they want to be apart. The way no one can tell you w…"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish

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10. Songs of Irie

By: Asha Ashanti Bromfield

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of The Black Kids, Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromf… read more

Similar categories in Asha Ashanti Bromfield's Songs of Irie book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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11. So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm an… read more

Similar categories in Bethany C. Morrow's So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. One True Loves (Happily Ever Afters, #2)

By: Elise Bryant

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lenore Bennett has always been a force. A star artist and style icon at her high school, she’s a ma… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's One True Loves (Happily Ever Afters, #2) book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life by Morgan Harper Nichols

13. Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.08

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your c… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Harper Nichols's Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
"What if practicing peace is slowing down and realizing there’s more to see?"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is an invitation in daily life to breathe deep, right here, in the uncertainty."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"We don’t have to understand everything before we hold both shadow and light. We don’t have to eliminate every unknown before we take action. We don’t have to get rid of the darkness to see where the …"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is the river in the desert, not on the other side of it. Today I am still seeking that river. And not just a river far off somewhere that I must arrive at, but the river that runs wild and free…"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

Cover of Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass

14. Where the Rhythm Takes You

By: Sarah Dass

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Toba… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • music
  • retellings
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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15. The Love Connection (Airport Novellas, #1)

By: Denise Williams

3.51

Format: 128 pages, ebook

An airport pet groomer meets her frequent flier crush in this captivating romance novella from the … read more

Similar categories in Denise Williams's The Love Connection (Airport Novellas, #1) book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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16. Zyla & Kai

By: Kristina Forest

3.88

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story abou… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Forest's Zyla & Kai book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided (About Basically Everything) by Sarah Stewart Holland

17. Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided (About Basically Everything)

By: Sarah Stewart Holland

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From friendships to Facebook to far-off countries, what do we do when our lives seem mired in confl… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stewart Holland's Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided (About Basically Everything) book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • audiobook
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18. Rhythm & Muse

By: India Hill Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Darren Johnson lives in his head. There, he can pine for his crush—total dream girl, Delia Dawson—i… read more

Similar categories in India Hill Brown's Rhythm & Muse book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • music
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Now That I've Found You

By: Kristina Forest

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Now That I've Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Forest's Now That I've Found You book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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20. All the Things We Never Knew

By: Liara Tamani

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the moment Carli and Rex first locked eyes on a Texas high school basketball court, they both … read more

Similar categories in Liara Tamani's All the Things We Never Knew book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Meet-Cute Project

By: Rhiannon Richardson

3.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl who will do whatever it takes to find a date for her sister’s wedding. Mia’s friends… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Richardson's The Meet-Cute Project book and Sarah Dass's Where the Rhythm Takes You

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

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4.23

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Christine Simon

3.59

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Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

Joya Goffney

4.08

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Shauna Niequist

4.01

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Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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Kendra Adachi

4.07

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Jennie Allen

3.97

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