26 best-selling contemporary books like Your Own Worst Enemy by Gordon Jack

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Your Own Worst Enemy

By: Gordon Jack

3.56

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Three candidates, three platforms, and a whirlwind of social media, gaffes, and protests makes for …

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1. It Only Happens in the Movies

By: Holly Bourne

3.76

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Audrey is over romance. While dealing with her parents’ contentious divorce, a breakup of her own, … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's It Only Happens in the Movies book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why love is never like the movies"

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"Or maybe there’s a type of laughter that only feels good with old friends."

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"Hell is other people and what they do in the anonymous dark of the cinema."

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"All I'm saying is, love changes over time. No person is ever perfect for another person"

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

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2. Fat Girl on a Plane

By: Kelly deVos

3.10

Format: 271 pages, ebook

Don't miss this unforgettable debut novel, told in two timelines, about smart fashion, pursuing you… read more

Similar categories in Kelly deVos's Fat Girl on a Plane book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Chaos of Standing Still

By: Jessica Brody

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of one chaotic night stranded at the Denver airport, Ryn confronts her shattered pa… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Brody's The Chaos of Standing Still book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Moxie

By: Jennifer Mathieu

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Moxie girls fight back! Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's Moxie book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

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

5. The Lake Effect

By: Erin McCahan

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It's the summer after his senior year, and Briggs Henry is out the door. He's leaving behind his ex… read more

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6. Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sl… read more

Similar categories in Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1) book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I don't eat chicken abortions!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

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7. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • coming of age
Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

8. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • fiction
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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9. Begin Again

By: Emma Lord

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridg… read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Begin Again book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Anything worth doing starts with a mess."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"My favorite flavor is indiscriminate fruit."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"I don't want to hurt anymore. I just want to understand."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"Yeah, but aren’t all books kind of self-insert fanfiction?"

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

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10. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Once Upon a Quinceañera

By: Monica Gomez-Hira

3.61

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever… read more

Similar categories in Monica Gomez-Hira's Once Upon a Quinceañera book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Honestly...welcome to the world the rest of us live in, where we're trying our best and still end up just mostly OK, and somehow manage to get up in the morning in spite of that."

-Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

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12. Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir

By: Tyler Feder

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super-cool m… read more

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Cover of Class Act (New Kid, #2) by Jerry Craft

13. Class Act (New Kid, #2)

By: Jerry Craft

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In this companion book to New Kid this time it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in a s… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's Class Act (New Kid, #2) book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. Pretty Dead Queens

By: Alexa Donne

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-o… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's Pretty Dead Queens book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Losers Bracket

By: Chris Crutcher

3.65

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

When a family argument turns into an urgent hunt for a missing child, seventeen-year-old Annie Boot… read more

Similar categories in Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Royal Scandal (Royal Blood, #2)

By: Aimee Carter

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by … read more

Similar categories in Aimee Carter's Royal Scandal (Royal Blood, #2) book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1) by Abigail Hing Wen

18. Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the s… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1) book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I don't care what baggage they dragged over the ocean. They have no right to make me carry it the rest of my life."

-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

"--and at every turn, he finds excuses to touch me, pushing money into my hand, running his palm down my back, around the curve of my waist."

-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

"He takes his time. A slow burn that builds and builds, until I am clawing at the stones and my back arches, and my toes splash and my body ripens under his grip."

-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

"I snatch my body as well as my bad from Rick. My heart pounds in my throat. His hand and arm have branded themselves through the fabric of my clothes into my skin."

-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

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19. 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 Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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20. Layoverland

By: Gabby Noone

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two teens, one stuck atoning for her sins and one destined for heaven, fall in love in purgatory in… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Noone's Layoverland book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Color of Lies

By: C.J. Lyons

3.62

Format: 336 pages, ebook

High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medica… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. My Fine Fellow

By: Jennieke Cohen

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in … read more

Similar categories in Jennieke Cohen's My Fine Fellow book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"He still believed more people existed in the world who didn’t ask questions—and not because they didn’t know to ask them. No, they didn’t ask because they only wanted the answers they’d created in th…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Elijah had spiced them with thyme, cumin, and mustard seeds in clever proportions so that no one spice overpowered the others. Toasted hazelnuts brought a crunch she hadn't expected, and the dried, t…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Remember that the first thing anyone does is eat with their eyes. Before the diner even takes a single bite, what they see, hear, and smell is what will often entice them to eat---or to partake of so…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Princess Adelaide hadn't shown him any particular favor, but she had seemed to enjoy his freshly made pasta colored with squid ink and peppered throughout with clams, mussels, more squid, and roasted…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

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23. Clique Bait

By: Ann Valett

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Pretty Little Liars meets Burn for Burn in this thrilling debut from Wattpad star Ann Valett. Chlo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Valett's Clique Bait book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. We Regret to Inform You

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Library Binding

Mischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application … read more

Similar categories in Ariel Kaplan's We Regret to Inform You book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. This Time Will Be Different

By: Misa Sugiura

3.72

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Katsuyamas never quit—but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. She’s never lived… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's This Time Will Be Different book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus

26. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. Those Summer Nights

By: Laura Silverman

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new summer job, an ex-bes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Those Summer Nights book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall

28. Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken

By: Nita Tyndall

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Berlin, 1938 It is the summer before World War II begins, but Charlotte Kraus doesn’t know it ye… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. The Voting Booth

By: Brandy Colbert

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the wo… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Voting Booth book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • politics
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And I know, deep down, that it was the right thing to do, but my chest still hurts the same way it does on the last day of school or New Year's Eve or the night before my birthday. It's the end of a …"

-Brandy Colbert, The Voting Booth

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30. Your Own Worst Enemy

By: Gordon Jack

3.56

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Three candidates, three platforms, and a whirlwind of social media, gaffes, and protests makes for … read more

Similar categories in Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • politics
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Super Adjacent

By: Crystal Cestari

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Claire has always wanted to work with superheroes, from collecting Warrior Nation cards as a kid to… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Cestari's Super Adjacent book and Gordon Jack's Your Own Worst Enemy

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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