18 must-read fiction books like Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

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Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,…

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1. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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2. Under the Surface

By: Diana Urban

4.10

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping … read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's Under the Surface book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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3. Stay Dead

By: April Henry

3.86

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author April Henry delivers a thrilling murder mystery featuring a teen… read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Stay Dead book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. Girls Who Burn

By: M.K. Pagano

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A twisty, pulse-pounding enemies-to-lovers thriller full of secrets, privilege, and murder. The… read more

Similar categories in M.K. Pagano's Girls Who Burn book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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5. Silent Sister

By: Megan Davidhizar

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious sister's disappearance, her biggest b… read more

Similar categories in Megan Davidhizar's Silent Sister book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

6. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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7. Girls Like Her

By: Melanie Sumrow

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to st… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Sumrow's Girls Like Her book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...

By: Jason Reynolds

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Where Wolves Don't Die book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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12. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

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13. The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky

By: Josh Galarza

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Mark Oshiro and Adam Silvera comes a fiercely funny and hopeful story of one bo… read more

Similar categories in Josh Galarza's The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Death at Morning House

By: Maureen Johnson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

By: Paula Yoo

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact o… read more

Similar categories in Paula Yoo's Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
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16. Not About a Boy

By: Myah Hollis

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken … read more

Similar categories in Myah Hollis's Not About a Boy book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. We Are Big Time

By: Hena Khan

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

SWISH! Cheer courtside for a Muslim teen as she joins an all-girls, hijab-wearing basketball team a… read more

Similar categories in Hena Khan's We Are Big Time book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • fiction
  • young adult
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19. It's Only a Game

By: Kelsea Yu

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this twisty, fast-paced YA thriller, a dangerous game becomes all too real when Marina and her f… read more

Similar categories in Kelsea Yu's It's Only a Game book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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20. Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

By: George M. Johnson

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essay… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • audiobook
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21. Better Left Buried

By: Mary E. Roach

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. The beach-swimsuit-sleeping-in kind. Not the impromptu s… read more

Similar categories in Mary E. Roach's Better Left Buried book and K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"Not a heterosexual or a brain cell in sight"

-Mary E. Roach, Better Left Buried

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