6 best-selling coming of age books like This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi

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This Tiny Perfect World

By: Lauren Gibaldi

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary “clean teen” coming-of-age story about a small-town girl who opens her eyes to life’…

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1. This Lullaby

By: Sarah Dessen

4.02

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here. The science of breaking up... Remy … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's This Lullaby book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"He ate in your car? No shit?"

-Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

"Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?"

-Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

"I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right."

-Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

"Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great."

-Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

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2. P.S. I Like You

By: Kasie West

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Signed, sealed, delivered… While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favo… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's P.S. I Like You book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"When I was dating, my girlfriends and I used to say, ‘Don’t cry in front of him before date three.’ "

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge me."

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"Sometimes I wish I were passionate about something real. Something I knew I could succeed in. Right now all my dreams are a little far-fetched."

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"Confidence. I'm bad at it. I get too self-conscious. Especially about things that mean a lot to me. I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge …"

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

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3. Keeping the Moon

By: Sarah Dessen

3.79

Format: None pages,

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here. Colie expects the worst when she's sent t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Starry Eyes

By: Jenn Bennett

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl's way-too-ordinary lif… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Bennett's Starry Eyes book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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5. Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

5.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their … read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1) book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. When We Collided

By: Emery Lord

3.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stron… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's When We Collided book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. A Step Toward Falling

By: Cammie McGovern

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful an… read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

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

8. Geekerella

By: Ashley Poston

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Anything can happen once upon a con... When geek girl Elle Wittimer sees a cosplay contest sponsore… read more

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9. Someone Like You

By: Sarah Dessen

4.27

Format: 197 pages,

Halley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's Someone Like You book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

10. My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2)

By: Brodi Ashton , Cynthia Hand , Jodi Meadows

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks o… read more

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11. Dreamland Burning

By: Jennifer Latham

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase fi… read more

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12. The How and the Why

By: Cynthia Hand

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A poignant exploration of family and the ties that bind, perfect for fans of Far From the Tree, fro… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Hand's The How and the Why book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. Cool for the Summer

By: Dahlia Adler

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"What am I? It's one summer. You can't change into a different person over a summer."

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"I think about that handshake a lot, because it reassures me that it was clearly just a friendly suggestion. I had no idea what it would spark."

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"I don't even realize we're falling out of our chairs until we land on the sand, our laughter floating into the summer night amid the crackling flames until our mouths find each other again and there'…"

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"If being bi means always knowing, well, that isn't me. The only girls on my bedroom walls are my friends, and I'm certainly not into any of them that way. That settles it. I'm straight. Just like I a…"

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

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14. The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)

By: Kiera Cass

3.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked—and thrilled. After al… read more

Similar categories in Kiera Cass's The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1) book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult
"Creamos enemistades con la cabeza, pero hacemos amigos con el corazón."

-Kiera Cass, The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)

"Love is the final course at a feast that I’m still waiting to be invited to."

-Kiera Cass, The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)

"In the end, we made enemies with our heads, but we unmade them with our hearts."

-Kiera Cass, The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)

"The most valuable thing you can own is the assurance of your place in someone's heart."

-Kiera Cass, The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)

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15. Across the Desert

By: Dusti Bowling

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's Across the Desert book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. All This Time

By: Mikki Daughtry

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up… read more

Similar categories in Mikki Daughtry's All This Time book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"Always forward. Never back."

-Mikki Daughtry, All This Time

"Everything is the same. It's me that's different."

-Mikki Daughtry, All This Time

"You don't need to be like her. You're already everything."

-Mikki Daughtry, All This Time

"That's the first thing you said to me, remember? Once upon a time."

-Mikki Daughtry, All This Time

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17. The Ghosts We Keep

By: Mason Deaver

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, this book will rip your heart out before sho… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's The Ghosts We Keep book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Fingers finding lost bodies- floating along the surface, despaired drowned, dead. Keeping secrets lost on pale blue lips- For this is the place the dead things go- This is the home of the ghosts we k…"

-Mason Deaver, The Ghosts We Keep

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18. Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League-by way of Skull and Bones?" Reluctant debutant… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2) book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.85

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But." Eightee… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. The Getaway List

By: Emma Lord

3.58

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's The Getaway List book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"

-Emma Lord, The Getaway List

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21. A Danger to Herself and Others

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.86

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's A Danger to Herself and Others book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. You Say It First

By: Katie Cotugno

3.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: her boyfriend Mason is sweet and supportive, she and her … read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's You Say It First book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"Nice is overrated."

-Katie Cotugno, You Say It First

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23. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Be Not Far from Me book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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24. Picture Us in the Light

By: Kelly Loy Gilbert

4.09

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Loy Gilbert's Picture Us in the Light book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Other people don't exist just to be your happy ending, you know?"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me."

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"We all have those things, I think – those things we want too badly to speak about aloud for fear someone'll swoop in and tell us we're just dreaming, those things we hold close and fantasize about at…"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"Art doesn't change the ending. It doesn't let you lose yourself that way--the opposite, really; it calls you from the darkness, into the glaring, unforgiving light. But at least--this is why it will …"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

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25. Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt … read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's Whiteout book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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26. Full Flight

By: Ashley Schumacher

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-thre… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Schumacher's Full Flight book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. Going Dark

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“An intense rollercoaster of a thriller and a searing indictment of which victims get our attention… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's Going Dark book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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28. The Girl You Thought I Was

By: Rebecca Phillips

3.76

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

No one looking at Morgan Kemper would think she had a secret-at least not one that she's deeply ash… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Phillips's The Girl You Thought I Was book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. Where It All Lands

By: Jennie Wexler

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stevie Rosenstein has never made a true friend. Never fallen in love. Moved from city to city by he… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Wexler's Where It All Lands book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"Drew is the opening song on my favorite album. He’s the song that everyone loves, the song that draws me in and makes me want to listen to the whole album without stopping. He’s the catchy song with …"

-Jennie Wexler, Where It All Lands

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30. Waiting for Fitz

By: Spencer Hyde

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Addie loves nothing more than curling up on the couch with her dog, Duck, and watching The Great Br… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Hyde's Waiting for Fitz book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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31. This Tiny Perfect World

By: Lauren Gibaldi

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary “clean teen” coming-of-age story about a small-town girl who opens her eyes to life’… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World book and Lauren Gibaldi's This Tiny Perfect World

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance

26 Top contemporary books like This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi

Transform Your Habits

This Lullaby

Sarah Dessen

4.02

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P.S. I Like You

Kasie West

4.04

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Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen

3.79

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Starry Eyes

Jenn Bennett

3.70

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Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

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Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

Lynn Weingarten

3.53

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Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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Helena Fox

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