7 must-read fantasy books like The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey by Echo Brown

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The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

By: Echo Brown

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Echo Brown testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college studen…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey by Echo Brown , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Disappearing Acts

By: Terry McMillan

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, … read more

Similar categories in Terry McMillan's Disappearing Acts book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • african american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

-Terry McMillan, Disappearing Acts

2. Who Was George Washington?

By: Nancy Harrison , True Kelley , Roberta Edwards

2.88

Format: None pages,

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3. Even If the Sky Is Falling

By: Taj McCoy

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

It’s the end of the world as they know it—or so they think… When an international warning siren acc… read more

Similar categories in Taj McCoy's Even If the Sky Is Falling book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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 Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"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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5. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Blackwoods book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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8. Their Vicious Games

By: Joelle Wellington

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's Their Vicious Games book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. So Fetch

By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's So Fetch book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
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14. The Shadow Sister

By: Lily Meade

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help f… read more

Similar categories in Lily Meade's The Shadow Sister book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"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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18. 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 Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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19. Love Times Infinity

By: Lane Clarke

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The swoon of Nicola Yoon meets the emotional punch of Elizabeth Acevedo in this breakout debut nove… read more

Similar categories in Lane Clarke's Love Times Infinity book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I can't give him any more of myself, because when he's gone, he'll take too much of me with him."

-Lane Clarke, Love Times Infinity

"People think being best friends means being open and exposed all the time. I think it means being able to hide in a safe place."

-Lane Clarke, Love Times Infinity

"Life might just be good moments that fill in the fissures the bad ones leave behind. That's how you win, by filling in the cracks until they burst open and let in all the light."

-Lane Clarke, Love Times Infinity

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20. Vinyl Moon

By: Mahogany L. Browne

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Library Binding

A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong B… read more

Similar categories in Mahogany L. Browne's Vinyl Moon book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Secret to a Southern Wedding (Peachtree Cove)

By: Synithia Williams

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding da… read more

Similar categories in Synithia Williams's The Secret to a Southern Wedding (Peachtree Cove) book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

23. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. The Kindred

By: Alechia Dow

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and e… read more

Similar categories in Alechia Dow's The Kindred book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That our worlds are unfair. No place is perfect, but we need to take care of each other and use compassion and not oppression. We need to give more then we take, help more then we sit idle. It's time…"

-Alechia Dow, The Kindred

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25. You Truly Assumed

By: Laila Sabreen

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country an… read more

Similar categories in Laila Sabreen's You Truly Assumed book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I am tired of existing. I want to live"

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"She has a heart of gold. But people rob gold."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"But their voices and their words move mountains, create waterfalls, mend hearts, and make this world closer to what it should be."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"But if I am going to paint my own future, then I can't have have people-pleasing on my paint palette. It only muddles the rest of the colors."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

Cover of Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

26. Four Eids and a Funeral

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.71

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Four Eids and a Funeral book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. Everyone's Thinking It

By: Aleema Omotoni

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this big-hearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about… read more

Similar categories in Aleema Omotoni's Everyone's Thinking It book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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28. What She Missed

By: Liara Tamani

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s … read more

Similar categories in Liara Tamani's What She Missed book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

By: Echo Brown

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Echo Brown testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college studen… read more

Similar categories in Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • race
  • magical realism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee

30. Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

By: Kristen R. Lee

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embra… read more

Similar categories in Kristen R. Lee's Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman book and Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. 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 Echo Brown's The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

28 best-selling fiction books like The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey by Echo Brown

Transform Your Habits

Disappearing Acts

Terry McMillan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Even If the Sky Is Falling

Taj McCoy

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Love Radio

Ebony LaDelle

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

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20 must-read fiction books like Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

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Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

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Twelfth Knight

Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.90

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Thirsty

Jas Hammonds

4.16

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On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

4.20

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