19 must-read fiction books like Borderline by Allan Stratton

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Borderline

By: Allan Stratton

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Library Binding

Life’s not easy for Sami Sabiri, especially since his dad stuck him at a private boys’ school where…

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Cover of Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater

1. Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.89

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

then. When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"Cole,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

"Okay,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

"Nothing had changed. Nothing."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

"He was every angel and every devil."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

Cover of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Linh Duong

2. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Linh Duong

4.13

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

A warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging, infused with humour, from the bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Alire Sáenz's The Inexplicable Logic of My Life book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
"Writing is a journey."

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

"Time is something we don't have."

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

"Nobody tells anybody everything."

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

"Life wasn't always about deserve."

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

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3. Paul dans le Nord

By: Michel Rabagliati

4.10

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Été 76. Paul a 16 ans et ne rêve que d'une chose: une motocyclette Kawasaki KE100 pour fuir son quo… read more

Similar categories in Michel Rabagliati's Paul dans le Nord book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

4. Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.88

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. F… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2) book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • young adult
"i want to remember"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

"Oh my God. What in—"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

"Do you feel better?"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

"Avoidance is a wonderful therapy"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

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5. Far from the Tree

By: Robin Benway , Sophie Lamotte d'Argy

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary novel about three adopted siblings who find each other at just the right moment. Bei… read more

Similar categories in Robin Benway's Far from the Tree book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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6. Dear Martin

By: Nic Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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7. Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Patricia Benecke , Patrick Driver

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old M… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Piecing Me Together

By: Renée Watson

4.08

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from a… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there's a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same."

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"I write my resolution in black Sharpie marker on top of a background made out of cut-up scriptures, words from newspaper headlines, and numbers from last year's calendar. Be bold. Be brave. Be beauti…"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"Sam leans forward. "But then again I feel bad for feeling bad, if that makes any sense," she says. "It's kind of not fair for us to feel guilty for getting what we deserve. We work hard." It takes a …"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"My grandmother called it bearing witness. She'd sit on the porch with her sister and talk the night away. Sometimes gossiping, sometimes praying. I'd hear them confide in each other, telling each oth…"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

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9. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more

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10. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Ishmael Beah

4.19

Format: 416 pages,

The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twe… read more

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Cover of Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

11. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

By: Allie Brosh

4.17

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to ex… read more

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"I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

12. Code of Honor

By: Alan Gratz

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Live by the code. Die by the code? Kamran Smith has it all. He's the star of the football team, dat… read more

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13. 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

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's Through the Woods book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • 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

14. The Rest of Us Just Live Here

By: Patrick Ness

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Hardcover

What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating … read more

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15. The Problem with Forever

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

3.80

Format: 654 pages, Hardcover

A story about friendship, survival and finding your voice Growing up, Mallory Dodge learned that th… read more

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16. Extras (Uglies, #4)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.03

Format: None pages,

Fame It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. W… read more

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17. Spill Zone (Spill Zone, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld , Hilary Sycamore , Alex Puvilland

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nobody's ever really explained the Spill. Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech accident? A port… read more

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18. Specials (Uglies, #3)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellen… read more

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19. Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

found. Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get Isabel Culpeper back. She fled … read more

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20. Dry

By: Neal Shusterman

4.02

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life … read more

Similar categories in Neal Shusterman's Dry book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"This isn't the same world it was yesterday."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Mieux vaut avoir tort qu’être mort. — père de Kelton"

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"I imagine her to already be animal, without needing three days to get there."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

Cover of Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi

21. Punching the Air

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exo… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Punching the Air book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"They call it free time and it's the biggest lie because we are still here"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"This is the first time my feet are bound where the fuck am I supposed to run anyway"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"Blank Canvas I have a crayon and paper I didn't know that I could hold this little bit of freedom in my hands"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"And maybe there are small cracks in our walls and we start to see a sliver of light shine through in each other"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

Cover of Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

22. Emergency Contact

By: Mary H.K. Choi

3.64

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and wh… read more

Similar categories in Mary H.K. Choi's Emergency Contact book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
"It’s fucking art, man,"

-Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

"She smiled. Sam smiled back. She died."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

"Everything precious was also vulnerable."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

"To be a hero, you had to decide it was you."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

Cover of The Haunting by Natasha Preston

23. The Haunting

By: Natasha Preston

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pound… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Haunting book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

24. Sea Prayer

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more

Similar categories in Khaled Hosseini's Sea Prayer book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

Cover of Internment by Samira Ahmed

25. Internment

By: Samira Ahmed

3.87

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old … read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Internment book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

Cover of The Broken Vow (Spill Zone, #2) by Scott Westerfeld

26. The Broken Vow (Spill Zone, #2)

By: Scott Westerfeld

3.83

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Only the very brave or the very desperate dare enter the Spill Zone—Addison Merritt is a little of … read more

Similar categories in Scott Westerfeld's The Broken Vow (Spill Zone, #2) book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
Cover of Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

27. Girl in the Blue Coat

By: Monica Hesse

4.04

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's Girl in the Blue Coat book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

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28. Whistleblower

By: Kate Marchant

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kate Marchant presents a story about a young journalist who fights for the truth to come to light—e… read more

Similar categories in Kate Marchant's Whistleblower book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Borderline by Allan Stratton

29. Borderline

By: Allan Stratton

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Library Binding

Life’s not easy for Sami Sabiri, especially since his dad stuck him at a private boys’ school where… read more

Similar categories in Allan Stratton's Borderline book and Allan Stratton's Borderline

  • cultural
  • thriller
  • teen
  • canada
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • terrorism
Cover of Combattre ou mourir (Les enfants de la résistance, #8) by Vincent Dugomier

30. Combattre ou mourir (Les enfants de la résistance, #8)

By: Vincent Dugomier

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Les enfants de la Résistance ont maintes fois manqué mourir pour leurs idées. Cette fois, ils devro… read more

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Cover of Tombés du ciel (Les Enfants de la Résistance, #7) by Vincent Dugomier

31. Tombés du ciel (Les Enfants de la Résistance, #7)

By: Vincent Dugomier

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Au printemps 1943, un avion allié s'écrase près de Pontain l'Écluse, le village où François, Lisa e… read more

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Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

Maggie Stiefvater

3.89

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Linh Duong

4.13

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Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

Maggie Stiefvater

3.88

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Avery Monsen , Jory John

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4.26

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Sarah Andersen

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