17 Best fiction books like This Boy by Lauren Myracle

Cover of This Boy by Lauren Myracle

This Boy

By: Lauren Myracle

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage…

"Roby thought he should get “dibs"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"Roby thought he should get “dibs"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

If you liked the fiction plot in This Boy by Lauren Myracle , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Top Ten by Katie Cotugno

1. Top Ten

By: Katie Cotugno

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ryan McCullough and Gabby Hart are the unlikeliest of friends. Introverted, anxious Gabby would rat… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Top Ten book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"God, the only thing worse than having a panic attack was trying to have one in secret while someone else was watching."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"If you liked being alone all the time, that would be one thing. But I don't actually think you do. I think you're just letting yourself be scared."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably neve…"

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

Cover of Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid

2. Never Always Sometimes

By: Adi Alsaid

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Never date your best friend. Always be original. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. B… read more

Similar categories in Adi Alsaid's Never Always Sometimes book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love was lazy as hell."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

Cover of The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody

3. The Chaos of Standing Still

By: Jessica Brody

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of one chaotic night stranded at the Denver airport, Ryn confronts her shattered pa… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Brody's The Chaos of Standing Still book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)

By: E. Lockhart

5.00

Format: None pages,

Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it's unusual, but give her a break--she's had a rough… read more

Similar categories in E. Lockhart's The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1) book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

5. He Said, She Said

By: Kwame Alexander

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, … read more

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6. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

A teenage misfit named Hawthorn Creely inserts herself in the investigation of missing person Lizzi… read more

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7. The Last Time I Saw You

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.79

Format: None pages,

As onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend for their fortieth high school reunion, … read more

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8. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

By: Crystal Maldonado

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole lif… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's Fat Chance, Charlie Vega book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Right! You see me as superhuman! That’s some serious pressure."

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"Just—promise me girls you won't devalue yourselves for anyone. And I mean anyone. You can't. You have to really be kind to yourself and look out for yourself because the world can be cold and cruel. …"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"Sometimes I didn't get it [jokes] at all, but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to make me laugh. He was always just trying his best, and that's what I loved. I know I will never replace…"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"You need to believe in your value for you, even if you’re not some flawless ethereal being, even if not everyone will see what makes you special, even if your story is a little chaotic. We’re all mes…"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

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9. Twelfth Knight

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24 "YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun… read more

Similar categories in Alexene Farol Follmuth's Twelfth Knight book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Little Monsters

By: Kara Thomas

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Little Monsters book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Every Single Lie

By: Rachel Vincent

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping YA novel about social media bullying and half-truths, one girl's discovery of a de… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Vincent's Every Single Lie book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • high school
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Live, Laugh, Kidnap

By: Gabby Noone

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Layoverland comes another bitingly clever, laugh-out-loud funny novel, about a g… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Noone's Live, Laugh, Kidnap book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

13. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Lie to Me by Kaitlin Ward

14. Lie to Me

By: Kaitlin Ward

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed novels Girl in a Bad Place and Where She Fell comes a pulse-poundi… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlin Ward's Lie to Me book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Artifacts of an Ex by Jennifer   Chen

15. Artifacts of an Ex

By: Jennifer Chen

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the county from NYC to LA, her first inst… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chen's Artifacts of an Ex book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Your face right now is pure joy. Watching you study art is worthy of any painting in a museum."

-Jennifer Chen, Artifacts of an Ex

Cover of Sugaring Off by Gillian French

16. Sugaring Off

By: Gillian French

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Min… read more

Similar categories in Gillian French's Sugaring Off book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

Cover of This Boy by Lauren Myracle

18. This Boy

By: Lauren Myracle

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Myracle's This Boy book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • school
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Roby thought he should get “dibs"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"Natalia, Kahlia and Helen are always saying “Love you!"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

"It’s okay if you’re not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you’re on the way to being happy"

-Lauren Myracle, This Boy

Cover of The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow

19. The Glass Girl

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Glass Girl book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Not Nothing by Gayle Forman

20. Not Nothing

By: Gayle Forman

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning auth… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's Not Nothing book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
Cover of With Love, Echo Park by Laura Taylor Namey

21. With Love, Echo Park

By: Laura Taylor Namey

4.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and T… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's With Love, Echo Park book and Lauren Myracle's This Boy

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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