6 best-selling classics books like The Breakfast Club by John Hughes

Cover of The Breakfast Club by John  Hughes

The Breakfast Club

By: John Hughes

4.54

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama script written by John Hughes. The storyline foll…

"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."

-John Hughes, The Breakfast Club

"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."

-John Hughes, The Breakfast Club

If you liked the classics plot in The Breakfast Club by John Hughes , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa

1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Cover of The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens, Robert Florczak

2. The Magic Fishbone

By: Charles Dickens , Robert Florczak

4.00

Format: None pages,

This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish… read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

3. The Dot

By: Peter H. Reynolds

4.25

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stub… read more

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Cover of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4  (Adrian Mole, #1) by Sue Townsend

4. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)

By: Sue Townsend

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his … read more

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  • classics
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern."

-Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)

"Adrian Mole's diary Easter Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself."

-Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)

Cover of The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

5. The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Dear Reader, If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm… read more

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  • young adult
Cover of The Witches by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

6. The Witches

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real w… read more

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  • classics
  • young adult
Cover of Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

7. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • young adult
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

8. The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)

By: Meg Cabot , Josette Chicheportiche , None

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Library Binding

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom... NEWS FLASH: Dad is prince of Genovia.… read more

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9. The Beach

By: Alex Garland

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon fi… read more

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10. The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)

By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even … read more

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11. Stand by Me

By: Stephen King

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Different SeasonsThe Body, as a media tie-in for the movie starring River Phoenix, Kiefer Suth… read more

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12. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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Cover of Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton

13. Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

4.11

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind… read more

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  • classics
"Welcome...to Jurassic Park!"

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

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14. Are You Listening?

By: Tillie Walden

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

Cover of Loveless by Alice Oseman

15. Loveless

By: Alice Oseman

4.20

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I ha… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"God, I am sad gay and alone"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

" Some little comedy play? Apologize to Oscar Wilde right the fuck now!"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"I wasn’t going to die alone. I was going to try harder. I wanted forever love. I didn’t want to be loveless."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

Cover of The Body by Stephen        King

16. The Body

By: Stephen King

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s… read more

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  • classics
  • young adult
"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke."

-Stephen King, The Body

Cover of Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

17. Dear Evan Hansen

By: Val Emmich

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Eva… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The me I am is not the me I was."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"It reminds me of that saying: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"There is nothing unrealistic about the love that one man feels for another"

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

Cover of Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire (The World of Gustavo, #3) by Flavia Z. Drago

18. Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire (The World of Gustavo, #3)

By: Flavia Z. Drago

4.30

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author-illustrator of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost comes a charmingly spooky celebrati… read more

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19. Barbie: The Screenplay

By: Greta Gerwig

4.74

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Barbie's perfect life spirals into existential chaos, prompting a soul-searching journey that chall… read more

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Cover of The Breakfast Club by John  Hughes

20. The Breakfast Club

By: John Hughes

4.54

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama script written by John Hughes. The storyline foll… read more

Similar categories in John Hughes's The Breakfast Club book and John Hughes's The Breakfast Club

  • classics
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."

-John Hughes, The Breakfast Club

Cover of The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Screenplay by Stephen Chbosky

21. The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Screenplay

By: Stephen Chbosky

4.44

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)

Sue Townsend

3.88

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Tillie Walden

3.83

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Loveless

Alice Oseman

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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Val Emmich

3.88

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Malinda Lo

4.22

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

3.66

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Kacen Callender

4.24

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