7 Top family books like How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian

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How to Build a Heart

By: Maria Padian

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

One young woman’s journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her …

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Cover of Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2) by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra

1. Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

May the best dancer win. June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan’s most… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2) book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of No Such Person by Caroline B. Cooney

2. No Such Person

By: Caroline B. Cooney

3.35

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, this riveting new … read more

Similar categories in Caroline B. Cooney's No Such Person book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of How It Feels to Fly by Kathryn  Holmes

3. How It Feels to Fly

By: Kathryn Holmes

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

The movement is all that matters. For as long as Samantha can remember, she's wanted to be a profes… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Holmes's How It Feels to Fly book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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5. The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

By: Hannah Reynolds

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summery romance set in Nantucket that follows seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg as she uncovers … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Reynolds's The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1) book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you miss him? When you spend so much time with someone, it's impossible not to."

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

"Light, air, and faint classical music filled the store. My shoulders relaxed. I breathed easier in a room full of books, as if the paper retained the capacity of the trees they'd once been. So many b…"

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

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6. 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 Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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8. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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9. 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 Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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10. In the Orbit of You

By: Ashley Schumacher

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the Orbit of You is a YA story of enduring love from acclaimed author Ashley Schumacher, where a… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Schumacher's In the Orbit of You book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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 Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) by Kathleen Glasgow

12. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. This Golden State

By: Marit Weisenberg

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i… read more

Similar categories in Marit Weisenberg's This Golden State book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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14. Beastly Beauty

By: Jennifer Donnelly

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gend… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Donnelly's Beastly Beauty book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"If you want to know a person, don't ask to hear their truth. Listen to their lies."

-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty

"You must do one thing and one thing only--become the person you were meant to be. No matter how daunting that task may be. Otherwise, your life is not a life; it is merely a long, protracted death."

-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty

Cover of I Used to Have a Plan: But Life Had Other Ideas by Alessandra Olanow

15. I Used to Have a Plan: But Life Had Other Ideas

By: Alessandra Olanow

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Balm for the soul—Alessandra Olanow offers advice, inspiration, and encouragement for anyone who ne… read more

Similar categories in Alessandra Olanow's I Used to Have a Plan: But Life Had Other Ideas book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • contemporary
Cover of The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

16. The Someday Daughter

By: Ellen O'Clover

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Seven Percent of Ro Devereux comes another nuanced, heartre… read more

Similar categories in Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"We don’t have to do anything to earn it. We matter to the people who love us just by existing."

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

"That’s the thing about feelings—they don’t come with value judgments, they just are. A feeling cannot be wrong; it can only be."

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

"You can honor this feeling. Grieve the loss of something you wanted very much. But these feelings are like waves. We’re better for acknowledging them. Allow this to move you but don’t let it drag you…"

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

Cover of Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer  De Leon

17. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

By: Jennifer De Leon

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-wh… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer De Leon's Don't Ask Me Where I'm From book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

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

18. 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 Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

19. When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in h… read more

Similar categories in Jandy Nelson's When the World Tips Over book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He liked trees more than people."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Why won’t you ever tell me about your parents?"

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

Cover of How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian

20. How to Build a Heart

By: Maria Padian

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

One young woman’s journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her … read more

Similar categories in Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of The Champions by Kara Thomas

21. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Maria Padian's How to Build a Heart

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

20 Top fiction books like How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian

Transform Your Habits

Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)

Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.79

Transform Your Habits

No Such Person

Caroline B. Cooney

3.35

Transform Your Habits

How It Feels to Fly

Kathryn Holmes

3.93

Transform Your Habits

We Deserve Monuments

Jas Hammonds

4.30

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19 Top fiction books like We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Transform Your Habits

Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Isaac Blum

4.01

Transform Your Habits

We Deserve Monuments

Jas Hammonds

4.30

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