22 Best contemporary books like Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain

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Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

By: Kelly McCaughrain

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From debut author Kelly McCaughrain comes a sweet and kooky romcom for fans of R. J. Palacio's Wond…

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1. A Quiet Kind of Thunder

By: Sara Barnard

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can't hear, but he can listen. Their love isn… read more

Similar categories in Sara Barnard's A Quiet Kind of Thunder book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. The Female of the Species

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft kno… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Female of the Species book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Tailor (The Grisha, #1.5) by Leigh Bardugo

3. The Tailor (The Grisha, #1.5)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.83

Format: 208 pages, ebook

New scene from Shadow and Bone told from Genya's point of view. read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Tailor (The Grisha, #1.5) book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • fiction
  • young adult

4. Noteworthy

By: Riley Redgate

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A cappella just got a makeover. Jordan Sun is embarking on her junior year at the Kensington-Blaine… read more

Similar categories in Riley Redgate's Noteworthy book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

5. The Last Puppy

By: Frank Asch

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

The last born of nine puppies worries that he will be the last chosen for a pet of a new owner. read more

Similar categories in Frank Asch's The Last Puppy book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

6. Radio Silence

By: Alice Oseman

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine wit… read more

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7. La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

By: Salomé Esper

3.89

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hilda Bustamante tiene 79 años y, como a todas las personas, un día le toca morir. Lo insólito es q… read more

Similar categories in Salomé Esper's La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ella pasaba su mano por cada rama, liberaba las hojas de bichos y sequedades; él, mate en mano, escuchaba cómo aquella begonia tardaba en florecer, que Carmen había comprado unas masas riquísimas cua…"

-Salomé Esper, La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

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8. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Soy una tonta por quererte

By: Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En plena decada de los años 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En… read more

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Soy una tonta por quererte book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

Cover of Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

10. Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

By: Rachael Lippincott

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost h… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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11. The Yearbook

By: Holly Bourne

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The dramas, the traumas, the rumours - it's time to expose it all... The Perks of Being a Wallflowe… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's The Yearbook book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Well, the weird thing about people,"

-Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

"Just keep telling the truth, Paige,"

-Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

"If you’re not scared, then it’s not courage."

-Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

"It hadn’t felt safe. Then I told my story, and now I did."

-Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

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12. The Henna Wars

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's The Henna Wars book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

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13. The Way Past Winter

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Mila and her sisters live with their brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in the snow. One night, … read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"MIla took a deep breath as she entered, inhaling the warm biscuity smell of the dogs, so comforting even in her saddest moments."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter

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14. Suddenly a Murder

By: Lauren Muñoz

3.65

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. On… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Muñoz's Suddenly a Murder book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

Cover of The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

15. The Places I've Cried in Public

By: Holly Bourne

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelie loved Reese. And she thought he loved her. But she’s starting to realise love isn’t supposed… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's The Places I've Cried in Public book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Now you sing, my canary."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"Is any broken heart ever worth it?"

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"It takes guts to listen to our gut..."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"Good memories exist in the naivety of not knowing any better."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

Cover of Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2) by Rachel Hawkins

16. Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2)

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.74

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has b… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2) book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

A poignant, funny, openhearted novel about coming out, first love, and being your one and only best… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Intelligent people can still get into some stupid-ass foolery"

-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

"It only takes one person to live their truth before more people start realizing they can too."

-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

"It's not even about the more intimate moments that happened. Although I do miss those a lot too. A lot , a lot. What I crave most is being next to someone. My someone."

-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

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18. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

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19. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Different for Boys book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

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20. Where the Light Goes

By: Sara Barnard

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A heart-wrenching exploration of grief, set in a landscape corrupted by fame and the scrutiny that … read more

Similar categories in Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Better Off Wed by Portia MacIntosh

21. Better Off Wed

By: Portia MacIntosh

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia can’t believe it when her boyfriend, Teddy, proposes out of the blue. She loves him (of cour… read more

Similar categories in Portia MacIntosh's Better Off Wed book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of My Summer Of You: Vol. 1: The Summer Of You (My Summer Of You, #1) by Nagisa Furuya

22. My Summer Of You: Vol. 1: The Summer Of You (My Summer Of You, #1)

By: Nagisa Furuya

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A wistful summer blossoms between two high-school boys finding themselves and each other through a … read more

Similar categories in Nagisa Furuya's My Summer Of You: Vol. 1: The Summer Of You (My Summer Of You, #1) book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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23. El silencio perfecto

By: Victoria Resco

3.61

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Leo tiene todo lo que necesita para ser la universidad la está devorando en vida, mantener sus mar… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Resco's El silencio perfecto book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
Cover of When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando

24. When Our Worlds Collided

By: Danielle Jawando

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teena… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Jawando's When Our Worlds Collided book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. In the Shallows

By: Tanya Byrne

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating young adult novel, two girls set out to unravel a mystery tied to the sea―and f… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's In the Shallows book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of If My Words Had Wings by Danielle Jawando

26. If My Words Had Wings

By: Danielle Jawando

4.49

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope after prison. The third novel from the prize-winn… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Jawando's If My Words Had Wings book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Fin & Rye & Fireflies by Harry  Cook

27. Fin & Rye & Fireflies

By: Harry Cook

3.95

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

“It started with a kiss…as love stories often do. Jesse Andrews had the arms of a Greek god and he … read more

Similar categories in Harry Cook's Fin & Rye & Fireflies book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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28. Nothing Ever Happens Here

By: Sarah Hagger-Holt

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"This is Littlehaven. Nothing ever happens here. Until the spotlight hits my family." Izzy's fam… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain

29. Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

By: Kelly McCaughrain

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From debut author Kelly McCaughrain comes a sweet and kooky romcom for fans of R. J. Palacio's Wond… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • queer
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

30. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow

31. The Glass Girl

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Glass Girl book and Kelly McCaughrain's Flying Tips for Flightless Birds

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

27 best-selling fiction books like Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain

Transform Your Habits

A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Sara Barnard

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Female of the Species

Mindy McGinnis

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Tailor (The Grisha, #1.5)

Leigh Bardugo

3.83

Transform Your Habits

La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

Salomé Esper

3.89

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16 best-selling fiction books like Soy una tonta por quererte by Camila Sosa Villada

Transform Your Habits

Las primas

Aurora Venturini

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

Transform Your Habits

La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

Salomé Esper

3.89

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