20 Top contemporary books like Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall

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Kind of Sort of Fine

By: Spencer Hall

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Senior year changes everything for two teens in this coming-of-age story that looks at what happens…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. What to Say Next

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Two struggling teenagers find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Sometimes a new… read more

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2. With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse wh… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2) book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. As If on Cue

By: Marisa Kanter

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A pair of fierce foes are forced to work together to save the arts at their school in this swoony Y… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's As If on Cue book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Kind of a Big Deal

By: Shannon Hale

2.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Shannon Hale, bestselling author of Austenland, comes Kind of a Big Deal: a hilarious, madcap … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment…"

-Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal

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5. Starfish

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

4.19

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushi… read more

Similar categories in Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I feel like I'm the one made out of paper."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I live my life in the small space between "uncomfortable and "awkward."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"If I can’t figure out how to live on my own一how to do things on my own一how am I supposed to live at all?"

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

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6. The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ho's The Silence that Binds Us book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. We Are Inevitable

By: Gayle Forman

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I got this whole-body feeling... it was like a message from future me to present me, telling me th… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's We Are Inevitable book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone."

-Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it’s like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I’ve felt is fear, and all this time, it was gr…"

-Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

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8. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. It Sounded Better in My Head

By: Nina Kenwood

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender, funny, and compulsively readable novel about first l… read more

Similar categories in Nina Kenwood's It Sounded Better in My Head book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really)."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.' 'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

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10. Take Me Home Tonight

By: Morgan Matson

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist in this romp through the city that… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Take Me Home Tonight book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I have a crippling fear of being without a dog."

-Morgan Matson, Take Me Home Tonight

"It's always easier to believe someone is perfect and never wrong. Easier - but never true."

-Morgan Matson, Take Me Home Tonight

"I had a theory—even though I'd never told anyone, not even Kat—that love was about paying attention. It's the one thing you can't buy or fake or make up for at the last minute. So the things that mea…"

-Morgan Matson, Take Me Home Tonight

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11. Every Other Weekend

By: Abigail Johnson

3.94

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Can life begin again… every other weekend? Adam Moynihan’s life used to be awesome. Straight As,… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Johnson's Every Other Weekend book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Hot Dog Girl

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her li… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Hot Dog Girl book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I’m not too big for this town, Dad. I never will be."

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"I know I don’t have the face of a woman who walks into an office and demands answers - I have the faces of a girl trying to be too many things at once."

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"And I get it now, I that’s all he could ever be, that’s all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all of the good stuff got lef…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"I flick my eyes to the spot on her shoulder where her freckles match the constellations in the sky, and I smile. I get lost in her skin, sipping my drink and mapping the stars on her arm while everyo…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

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13. I Loved You in Another Life

By: David Arnold

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller David Arnold returns with a poignant love story about two teens whose sou… read more

Similar categories in David Arnold's I Loved You in Another Life book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Year I Stopped Trying

By: Katie Heaney

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

Booksmart meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel of overachieving, existential crises,… read more

Similar categories in Katie Heaney's The Year I Stopped Trying book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I did not even want to know myself."

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

"I do want to be told exactly what to do, I just don't want them to act like I don't know what I'm doing"

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

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15. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's The Breakup Lists book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. The Fake Dating Trope

By: Jennifer Ann Shore

3.75

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

When Lucas Hunt proposes that we fake a relationship to get what we both want, I think it’s the mos… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ann Shore's The Fake Dating Trope book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Another First Chance

By: Robbie Couch

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's Another First Chance book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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 Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. The Extended Summer of Anna and Jeremy

By: Jennifer Ann Shore

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Is one summer enough time to change everything? Anna Wright is always on her best behavior — tur… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ann Shore's The Extended Summer of Anna and Jeremy book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Maybe We're Electric

By: Val Emmich

3.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A story of two teens who find themselves thrown together overnight during a snowstorm and discover … read more

Similar categories in Val Emmich's Maybe We're Electric book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer  Hall

21. Kind of Sort of Fine

By: Spencer Hall

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Senior year changes everything for two teens in this coming-of-age story that looks at what happens… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine book and Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Top fiction books like Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall

Transform Your Habits

With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2)

Marissa Meyer

3.90

Transform Your Habits

As If on Cue

Marisa Kanter

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Kind of a Big Deal

Shannon Hale

2.84

Transform Your Habits

Starfish

Akemi Dawn Bowman

4.19

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23 Top fiction books like Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale

Transform Your Habits

Southern Charmed

Melanie Jacobson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Comics Will Break Your Heart

Faith Erin Hicks

3.50

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The Rose Legacy

Jessica Day George

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)

Jessica Day George

4.36

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