16 Best fiction books like Asking For a Friend by Kate Mallinder

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Asking For a Friend

By: Kate Mallinder

3.83

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

A feel-good YA story from the author of Summer of No Regrets about valuing the friends that value y…

If you liked the fiction plot in Asking For a Friend by Kate Mallinder , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Weight of Water

By: Oliver Jeffers , Sarah Crossan

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"La Cloche Il y a une cloche Dont la sonnerie stridente signale Qu’il est temps de changer de classe. D’un cri elle nous commande. Comme des somnambules on se lève Quand elle résonne ; On fait silence…"

-Oliver Jeffers, The Weight of Water

Cover of I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1) by Alice Oseman

2. I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

By: Alice Oseman

4.03

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

For Angel Rahimi, life is only about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are c… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"I am not afraid, said Noah I was born for this"."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"If we can talk about anxiety, we can talk about poo. They’re basically the same thing."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"And the three of us laugh. And I imagine this must be what it's like to have real friends."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

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3. Blood Brothers

By: Willy Russell

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot af… read more

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  • fiction

4. The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: The British Isles, 500 to 1500 (Writer's Guide to Everyday Life Series)

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Writers will save hours of valuable research time and bring a richness and historical accuracy to t… read more

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5. Good Night, Mr. Tom

By: Michelle Magorian

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a… read more

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6. Ketchup Clouds

By: Annabel Pitcher

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Secrets, romance, murder and lies: Zoe shares a terrible secret in a letter to a stranger on death … read more

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7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • fiction
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

8. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) book and Kate Mallinder's Asking For a Friend

  • fiction
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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9. The Stranded (Stranded, #1)

By: Sarah Daniels

3.56

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

Snowpiercer meets The Hunger Games in a gripping near-future dystopian. Welcome to the Arcadia. … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Daniels's The Stranded (Stranded, #1) book and Kate Mallinder's Asking For a Friend

  • fiction
  • young adult
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10. Early Morning Riser

By: Katherine Heiny

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family Jane f… read more

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  • fiction
"Does Gary have to come too?" "You know as well as I do that Gary doesn't like to be alone after dark," Duncan said. "He says the toilet whispers."

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Sometimes she though being with her mother was like crossing a desert: long, hard stretches of burning sand that exhausted you, but every once in a while, you happened on a little oasis of kindness."

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Another woman was accompanied by a man with the most unfortunate facial hair Jane had ever seen—a moustache no thicker than dental floss that started under his nose and continued down either side of …"

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Jimmy gave a startled yelp. She had put cute little candy cane striped glass cocktail stirrers in everyone's drinks and Jimmy had thought they were real candy canes and bitten his in half. "Goodness.…"

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

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11. The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)

By: Hannah Gold

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindne… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3) by A.J. Pearce

12. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

By: A.J. Pearce

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more

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  • fiction
"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."

-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

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13. People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.53

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more

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  • fiction
"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"

-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

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14. If You Still Recognise Me

By: Cynthia So

4.05

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, th… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia So's If You Still Recognise Me book and Kate Mallinder's Asking For a Friend

  • fiction
  • young adult
"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

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15. The Lucky List

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Emily and her mum were always lucky. But Emily’s mum’s luck ran out three years ago when she suc… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"I need to be willing to play the game. I need to be willing to put myself out there, and be vulnerable, and take chances, even though I might lose."

-Rachael Lippincott, The Lucky List

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16. On Midnight Beach

By: Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful, epic coming-of-age novel, an old tale is rewoven as a stunning YA story by well-… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Timberdark (Wranglestone, #2) by Darren Charlton

17. Timberdark (Wranglestone, #2)

By: Darren Charlton

3.31

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

With the tide turned against the Dead, Peter and the remaining community on Wranglestone prepare to… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"It didn't make us happy Peter. None of it did. But having all that stuff did something very clever: it stopped us from ever noticing. It kept us busy and, in turn, compliant, as others busied to make…"

-Darren Charlton, Timberdark (Wranglestone, #2)

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18. A Very Large Expanse of Sea

By: Tahereh Mafi

4.08

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful,… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"Ocean, azizam,"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"How can you say that?"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"I could no longer distinguish people from monsters"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"My parents loved us but I wasn't always sure they liked us."

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

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19. Lightning Strike

By: Tanya Landman

3.92

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

When every day is a struggle to survive… When the rich and powerful hold all the cards… Do you ac… read more

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20. Asking For a Friend

By: Kate Mallinder

3.83

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

A feel-good YA story from the author of Summer of No Regrets about valuing the friends that value y… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mallinder's Asking For a Friend book and Kate Mallinder's Asking For a Friend

  • fiction
  • young adult
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21. Vile Stars

By: Sera Milano

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

(TRUE) LOVE (TOXIC) LOVE (LOST) LOVE This is a different kind of love story. 17-year-old Lu… read more

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  • young adult

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Oliver Jeffers , Sarah Crossan

3.80

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4.03

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3.56

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4.05

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Ripley Jones

3.49

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Diana Urban

3.61

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