10 must-read young adult books like The Colour of Shadows by Phyllida Shrimpton

Cover of The Colour of Shadows by Phyllida Shrimpton

The Colour of Shadows

By: Phyllida Shrimpton

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A moving portrayal of a teenager coming to terms with a secret about her mother that her father dec…

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1. The Door That Led to Where

By: Sally Gardner

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when… read more

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  • young adult

2. Out of Heart

By: Irfan Master

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Donating your heart is the most precious gift of all. Adam is a teenage boy who lives with his mum … read more

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3. Counting Stars

By: Keris Stainton

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Big city, big dreams, no money, no problem... Six 'friends', one flat, big dreams... what could go … read more

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4. The Hunt (The Hunt, #1)

By: Andrew Fukuda

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Don't Sweat. Don't Laugh. Don't draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do no… read more

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5. The Prey (The Hunt, #2)

By: Andrew Fukuda

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For Gene and the remaining humans--or hepers--death is just a heartbeat away. On the run and hunted… read more

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6. Just One Look

By: Harlan Coben

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two you… read more

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7. Murder on a School Night

By: Kate Weston

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious murder mystery–rom-com from author and comedian Kate Weston investigates the sinister s… read more

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  • young adult
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8. A Different Kind of Gone

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel ab… read more

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  • contemporary
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9. Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross #32)

By: James Patterson

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the … read more

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10. Paradise (DS Walker, #2)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coas… read more

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  • contemporary
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11. Very Very Lucky

By: Amanda Prowse

4.37

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A life-affirming story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about having it all, losi… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Outback (DS Walker, #1) by Patricia Wolf

12. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of No More Lies (No More #2) by Kerry Lonsdale

13. No More Lies (No More #2)

By: Kerry Lonsdale

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Cha… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6) by Jeffrey Archer

14. Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.18

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

THE TOWER OF LONDON… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on ear… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

15. The Places I've Cried in Public

By: Holly Bourne

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelie loved Reese. And she thought he loved her. But she’s starting to realise love isn’t supposed… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Now you sing, my canary."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"Is any broken heart ever worth it?"

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"It takes guts to listen to our gut..."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

"Good memories exist in the naivety of not knowing any better."

-Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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16. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

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  • contemporary
"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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17. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

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18. 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

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19. In Search Of Us

By: Ava Dellaira

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and da… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Love's worth it, for however long it lasts."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Su beso no es solo un beso. Su beso es el único beso que lo haya cambiado todo jamas."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Maybe it's true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"But missing something is okay. It's better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I'll take longing over boredom any day."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

Cover of Devil's Kitchen by Candice Fox

20. Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of contr… read more

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21. Arctic Zoo

By: Robert Muchamore

3.95

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

From London . . .Georgia gets straight As at school, writes essays for fun, has been placed first i… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. The Last Agent (Charles Jenkins, #2)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.43

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 31 minutes An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling seri… read more

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23. No More Secrets (No More, #3)

By: Kerry Lonsdale

4.41

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man seeks redemption from his past in the third novel from the No More trilogy by Amazon Ch… read more

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  • contemporary
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24. Version Zero

By: David Yoon

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the brilliant mind of New York Times best-selling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. The Boatman's Wife

By: Noëlle Harrison

4.13

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

There was some dark secret in this western edge of Ireland that her husband never wanted her to fin… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of This Can Never Not Be Real by Sera Milano

26. This Can Never Not Be Real

By: Sera Milano

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

FIVE TEENAGERS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON, THROWN TOGETHER BY AN ACT OF TERRORISM, CAN'T SURVIVE TH… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. After the Rain

By: Natália Gomes

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

'We’re alive. So let’s start living.' Two strangers Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was b… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Colour of Shadows by Phyllida Shrimpton

28. The Colour of Shadows

By: Phyllida Shrimpton

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A moving portrayal of a teenager coming to terms with a secret about her mother that her father dec… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29) by Lee Child

29. In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and… read more

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30. The House of Cross (Alex Cross #30)

By: James Patterson

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The thirty-second instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series. It’s time… read more

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31. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.23

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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  • contemporary

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4.19

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