16 Top contemporary books like My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life by Rachel Cohn

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My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

By: Rachel Cohn

3.34

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of…

"I loved that there were cat symbols everywhere: feline figurines in window storefronts, cat posters, and cat ads. Even the construction signs were cats- pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off barriers, to keep pedestrians from stumbling into holes in the road."

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"I loved that there were cat symbols everywhere: feline figurines in window storefronts, cat posters, and cat ads. Even the construction signs were cats- pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off barriers, to keep pedestrians from stumbling into holes in the road."

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"I approached a small table at the far corner of the Sky Garden and saw Akemi sitting nearby, studying a math textbook. She wore a demure, long-sleeved, knee-length white lace dress, black patent leather Mary Jane shoes, and on the floor was her school backpack that said "ICS-Tokyo" and was adorned with pastel ribbons, bows, and lace."

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"I approached a small table at the far corner of the Sky Garden and saw Akemi sitting nearby, studying a math textbook. She wore a demure, long-sleeved, knee-length white lace dress, black patent leather Mary Jane shoes, and on the floor was her school backpack that said "ICS-Tokyo" and was adorned with pastel ribbons, bows, and lace."

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

If you liked the contemporary plot in My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life by Rachel Cohn , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of American Panda by Gloria Chao

1. American Panda

By: Gloria Chao

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want h… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Chao's American Panda book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. How It Went Down

By: Kekla Magoon

4.36

Format: 352 pages, ebook

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an u… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's How It Went Down book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Best Kind of Magic (Windy City Magic, #1)

By: Crystal Cestari

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Amber Sand is not a witch. The Sand family Wicca gene somehow leapfrogged over her. But she did get… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Cestari's The Best Kind of Magic (Windy City Magic, #1) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

4. Pointe

By: Brandy Colbert

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Theo is better now. She's eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way… read more

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5. The Final Six (The Final Six, #1)

By: Alexandra Monir

3.83

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Monir's The Final Six (The Final Six, #1) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Remember what you always say: no problem has ever been solved by panicking."

-Alexandra Monir, The Final Six (The Final Six, #1)

"It's like we're in Hogwarts for space, but instead of teaching us magic, they're preparing us to get kicked off the planet."

-Alexandra Monir, The Final Six (The Final Six, #1)

"A funny thing happens when you have nothing left to live for. Your existence loses all its sharp edges. There are no more steep drops, no hills to climb. Colors blur and muddle together until your su…"

-Alexandra Monir, The Final Six (The Final Six, #1)

Cover of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2) by Emiko Jean

6. Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

By: Emiko Jean

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a … read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • japan
  • audiobook
"A heart divided cannot stand."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"Follow your heart...You lead with your heart."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"You will tell me who said this to you and I will take care of it."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"How could I have expected to stay in your golden orbit forever? I should have known. We’ve been playing a losing game the whole time."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

Cover of Flip the Script by Lyla Lee

7. Flip the Script

By: Lyla Lee

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead. As an avid watche… read more

Similar categories in Lyla Lee's Flip the Script book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"People see queerness as such an anomaly, as if there aren't that many of us. But what if we're actually the norm, and we're all just in hiding?"

-Lyla Lee, Flip the Script

Cover of Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1) by Emiko Jean

8. Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

By: Emiko Jean

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her sma… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • japan
  • audiobook
"Radish, I'm so heartsick for you."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"Kanji is an expression of the soul"

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"...why does anybody do anything? Money?"

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"Dear Crown Prince Toshihito, I think I'm your daughter..."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

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9. Admission

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.54

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer. She's headed off to the college of her dreams. She's going to… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Admission book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Money makes you weak because it tricks you into thinking you’re strong."

-Julie Buxbaum, Admission

"I think about all the things money can and cannot buy. A spot at SCC, but not a moral compass. Health care and rehab, but not immunity from our worst impulses. Fluency in Mandarin, but not the abilit…"

-Julie Buxbaum, Admission

Cover of The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin

10. The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By: Eugene Yelchin

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timi… read more

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11. A Pho Love Story

By: Loan Le

3.67

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particula… read more

Similar categories in Loan Le's A Pho Love Story book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I don't get it, but I`m not supposed to."

-Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

"Mediocrity has allowed me to float by without too much pressure or judgement"

-Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

"I regret many things in life, and I know I’ll regret many more at the rate I’m going."

-Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

"I watch her shoulders move as she breathes, until I realize I’ve timed my breathing with hers."

-Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

Cover of I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

12. I Hope You Get This Message

By: Farah Naz Rishi

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days. When news stations start reporting th… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's I Hope You Get This Message book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Being gay is not a fruit-borne disease, you idiot."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Only five seconds of thought stand between you and a crap-ton of regret."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Just because you’ve lost all hope doesn’t mean you get to throw out hope for all of us."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"The thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

Cover of This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed

13. 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 Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • teen
  • 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

Cover of The Name Drop by Susan  Lee

14. The Name Drop

By: Susan Lee

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father’s massive tech company, Han… read more

Similar categories in Susan Lee's The Name Drop book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) by Linda Cheng

15. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

By: Linda Cheng

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced t… read more

Similar categories in Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1) by Jenny    Lee

16. Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)

By: Jenny Lee

3.57

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own spec… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Lee's Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You can call me Alexia. I like it when you say it."

-Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)

"Life brought tragedy with the same hand that it brought joy."

-Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)

"How could she blame him for being insensitive when she was so insecure?"

-Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)

"Because just like you need to be where I am, I need to be where you are."

-Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)

Cover of The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods

17. The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA

By: Brenda Woods

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a youn… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Woods's The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
Cover of I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn

18. I Love You So Mochi

By: Sarah Kuhn

3.80

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kuhn's I Love You So Mochi book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • japan
  • audiobook
"I want you to remember that you are boundless"

-Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

Cover of K-Pop Revolution (K-pop Confidential, #2) by Stephan  Lee

19. K-Pop Revolution (K-pop Confidential, #2)

By: Stephan Lee

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

She thought that debuting in a K-Pop band was the finish line, but it was only the beginning. Becau… read more

Similar categories in Stephan Lee's K-Pop Revolution (K-pop Confidential, #2) book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern

20. Twelve Percent Dread

By: Emily McGovern

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***i… read more

Similar categories in Emily McGovern's Twelve Percent Dread book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life by Rachel Cohn

21. My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

By: Rachel Cohn

3.34

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life book and Rachel Cohn's My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
  • japan
  • audiobook
"I loved that there were cat symbols everywhere: feline figurines in window storefronts, cat posters, and cat ads. Even the construction signs were cats- pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off…"

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"I approached a small table at the far corner of the Sky Garden and saw Akemi sitting nearby, studying a math textbook. She wore a demure, long-sleeved, knee-length white lace dress, black patent leat…"

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"Tokyu Food Show!" Oscar and Nik both said. I eagerly followed the gang to their favorite local food spot in Shibuya Station, where another Japanese department store with a basement food hall offered …"

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"I placed the first piece of sushi in my mouth. HIGH HOLY HEAVEN! It was like a dance of flavors and textures- salty, rich, sweet, chewy yet silken- all at once. "This is maybe the best thing I've eve…"

-Rachel Cohn, My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

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