14 Top contemporary books like Sky by Ondine Sherman

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Sky

By: Ondine Sherman

3.77

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

*New edition* After her mother’s death, Sky leaves her city life to move in with her aunt and un…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Sky by Ondine Sherman , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1) by Philip Reeve

1. Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)

By: Philip Reeve

3.76

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining tow… read more

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  • young adult
"And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake."

-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)

"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."

-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)

"How should I remember the child's name? It was fifteen, sixteen years ago and I have never liked babies; nasty creatures, leak at both ends and have no respect for ceramics."

-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)

Cover of The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her moth… read more

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  • young adult
Cover of Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer

3. Letters to the Lost

By: Brigid Kemmerer

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more

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  • family
  • young adult
"I don't want to just survive"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"This book made me love reading."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

5. Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

By: Veronica Roth

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and… read more

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6. Trash

By: Andy Mulligan

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a livin… read more

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7. See How They Run (Embassy Row, #2)

By: Ally Carter

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inside every secret, there's a world of trouble. Get ready for the second book in this new series o… read more

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8. Gone (Gone, #1)

By: Michael Grant

3.86

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but no… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
"I don't think it was God."

-Michael Grant, Gone (Gone, #1)

"Who am I? I’m the Breeze, bitch!"

-Michael Grant, Gone (Gone, #1)

"That's your solution? Have a cookie?"

-Michael Grant, Gone (Gone, #1)

"Sam grinned. He even laughed. “What’s funny?"

-Michael Grant, Gone (Gone, #1)

9. The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)

By: None

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who esc… read more

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10. Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1 - 0.4)

By: Veronica Roth

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction l… read more

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11. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)

By: John Marsden

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… read more

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12. Insurgent (Divergent, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unre… read more

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13. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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  • contemporary
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14. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Cover of The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

15. The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.12

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Beauty was expected,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"I moved on from Emily,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"You hated the idea of me."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"Grayson told me. “I wanted her to be you."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

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16. The Ickabog

By: J.K. Rowling

3.91

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold… read more

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  • young adult
"Tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Still, it was hard to have parents who lived inside you, when all you really wanted was for them to come back, and hug you."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"You may think this strange, but Mrs. Beamish was glad to hear Mr. Dovetail cry, because tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Lži, lži a zase lži. Jakmile jednou začnete lhát, musíte lhát dál a pak jste jako kapitán na děravé lodi a lepíte jednu díru za duhou, abyste se nepotopili."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

Cover of Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9) by Robin Stevens

17. Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9)

By: Robin Stevens

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Dais… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9) book and Ondine Sherman's Sky

  • young adult
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18. What Once Was Mine

By: Liz Braswell

3.93

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother dran… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
"Cloth-lined baskets contained cheese and bread, and there were small crocks of honey and butter. A dainty pot of pickled mushrooms and green onions served as condiments."

-Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

"But... lately... added to the excitement was something else, something just the slightest bit off, a daub of grey in sunny yellow paint. Something unsettled and anxious. It might almost have been... …"

-Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

"Somehow you grew up, maintained a crazy amount of self-discipline... and managed to stay sane. I don't know how you're so constantly upbeat and cheery considering the hand life dealt you. You must be…"

-Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

"She pulled out her journal. "The lights-- I mean, lanterns-- always appear a month and eight days before the summer solstice," she said, checking her figures and drawings for the thousandth time. "Ma…"

-Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

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19. Blackout

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and elect… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. An Abundance of Katherines

By: John Green

3.51

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Je pense que j'taime"

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"All hurt is brain hurt."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"I thought you hung the moon."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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21. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

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  • contemporary
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22. Love at First Psych

By: Cara Bastone

3.61

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

True love is put to the test in this romantic comedy brought to hilarious life by Santino Fontana (… read more

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  • romance
  • contemporary
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23. Betting on You

By: Lynn Painter

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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24. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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25. As Happy as Here

By: Jane Godwin

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

A beautiful coming-of-age story about three teenage girls from very different backgrounds who find … read more

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  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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26. Waking Romeo

By: Kathryn Barker

3.87

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking t… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
"If it wasn't some Epic Love Story, then it was just a tragedy."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

"I wonder what exactly happened in that additional chapter between us."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

"Once you've truly seen a person ... well, unlike with time, there really is no going back."

-Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

Cover of If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

27. If I Never Met You

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.81

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it’s real? When her partner of over a decad… read more

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  • romance
  • contemporary
"The world could do with more Erics and fewer of other people."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"If you're a mistake you're the greatest one ever made. I'm really proud to know you."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"She thought there was a lot of truth in the closest friendships being unconsummated romances."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limit…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

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28. Perfect on Paper

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Perfect on Paper: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You'd be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst."

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

"But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't …"

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

Cover of The Museum of Broken Things by Lauren Draper

29. The Museum of Broken Things

By: Lauren Draper

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2) by Lynn Painter

30. Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling Better than the Movies, Wes and… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Sky by Ondine Sherman

31. Sky

By: Ondine Sherman

3.77

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

*New edition* After her mother’s death, Sky leaves her city life to move in with her aunt and un… read more

Similar categories in Ondine Sherman's Sky book and Ondine Sherman's Sky

  • romance
  • animals
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary

14 Best romance books like Sky by Ondine Sherman

Transform Your Habits

Letters to the Lost

Brigid Kemmerer

4.01

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Gone (Gone, #1)

Michael Grant

3.86

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The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.12

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What Once Was Mine

Liz Braswell

3.93

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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

Suzanne Collins

4.09

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Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

3.95

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Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)

Gayle Forman

3.97

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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

4.28

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