6 Best young adult contemporary books like This Town is on Fire by Pamela N. Harris

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This Town is on Fire

By: Pamela N. Harris

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of  When You Look Like Us  comes a page-turning YA contemporar…

If you liked the young adult contemporary plot in This Town is on Fire by Pamela N. Harris , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Nigeria Jones

By: Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Nigeria Jones book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • young adult
  • audiobook
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7. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. All That’s Left to Say

By: Emery Lord

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's All That’s Left to Say book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Remind Me to Hate You Later

By: Lizzy Mason

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story about the pressures of social media, the lengths influencers will go to for fame, and the g… read more

Similar categories in Lizzy Mason's Remind Me to Hate You Later book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I mean, yeah, it sounds weird,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"A friend told me once that grief is the cost of love,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"The pain of losing someone you love never goes away entirely,"

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

"Her motive wasn’t to offend anyone, but scrutiny is part of being a public figure. And you don’t get to decide who you offend."

-Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

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12. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. The Fall of Whit Rivera

By: Crystal Maldonado

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Could you plan the Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Whit Rivera is about to find out. Frenemie… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's The Fall of Whit Rivera book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. Cancelled

By: Farrah Penn

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With its clever snark and searing perspective, Cancelled is a funny, fearless novel about the reali… read more

Similar categories in Farrah Penn's Cancelled book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. There's No Way I'd Die First

By: Lisa Springer

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Debut author Lisa Springer delivers a spine-tingling contemporary horror that follows a scary-movie… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Springer's There's No Way I'd Die First book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. The Last One to Fall

By: Gabriella Lepore

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Six friends. Five suspects. One murder. Savana Caruso and Jesse Melo have known each other since t… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Lepore's The Last One to Fall book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Forgive Me Not

By: Jennifer Baker

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one incarcerated teen weighs what she is… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Baker's Forgive Me Not book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • young adult contemporary
  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"...Counselor Susan was right about one thing: We’re more than our worst mistakes."

-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not

"All this got me wondering: Is that what forgiveness is? Is it forgetting and moving on? Is it doing whatever it takes to hear “I forgive you"

-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not

"We’re not the same. Nothing will ever be the same. I try to say it, but it doesn’t come out. It can’t, because all the hurt needs to be spewed out first. Along with all the shame, hiding, guilt."

-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not

"The way my parents are reacting to this and last week’s Trials reminds me how much is and isn’t in their control. We’re all experiencing this together with Letta, only we can’t be there to help her. …"

-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not

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21. Wander in the Dark

By: Jumata Emill

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's Wander in the Dark book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • social justice
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. Out of Body

By: Nia Davenport

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of frien… read more

Similar categories in Nia Davenport's Out of Body book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

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

24. 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 Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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26. Your Lonely Nights Are Over

By: Adam Sass

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friend… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Your Lonely Nights Are Over book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

27. Ariel Crashes a Train

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Ariel Crashes a Train book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train

Cover of The Misdirection of Fault Lines by Anna  Gracia

28. The Misdirection of Fault Lines

By: Anna Gracia

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants goes to the US Open in an emotionally honest and openhearted nove… read more

Similar categories in Anna Gracia's The Misdirection of Fault Lines book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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30. The Queens of New York

By: E.L. Shen

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian America… read more

Similar categories in E.L. Shen's The Queens of New York book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Freudian slips happen to the breast of us"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"Once you've bowed your head and burned the incense, the grief locks inside the coffin, shrouded underneath new grass and fertile soil. But I don't think Ariel has any grass at all."

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"I inhale with the waves flooding the shore. They are easy. They are mine. I can feel my heartbeat slowing. Bea may be in Queens underground, but for now, she is here. We are little girls again, on th…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"When I got my official acceptance letter in the mail, Umma immediately pinned it to the fridge. She took down my old tests to make room. This letter deserved the entire metal canvas. It was the culmi…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

Cover of This Town is on Fire by Pamela N. Harris

31. This Town is on Fire

By: Pamela N. Harris

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of  When You Look Like Us  comes a page-turning YA contemporar… read more

Similar categories in Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire book and Pamela N. Harris's This Town is on Fire

  • high school
  • cultural
  • race
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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