24 must-read contemporary books like Clementine and Rudy by Siobhan Curham

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Clementine and Rudy

By: Siobhan Curham

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Rudy is a street artist; Clementine is a poet. The day after Rudy sneaks out late one night and pos…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Clementine and Rudy by Siobhan Curham , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Leah on the Offbeat

By: Becky Albertalli

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leah Burke--girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier's best friend from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Leah on the Offbeat book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Autoboyography

By: Christina Lauren

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Three years ago, Tanner Scott's family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's Autoboyography book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary

3. One

By: Sarah Crossan

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Grace and Tippi. Tippi and Grace. Two sisters. Two hearts. Two dreams. Two lives. But one body. Gra… read more

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4. Moonrise

By: Sarah Crossan

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds o… read more

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5. Solitaire

By: Alice Oseman

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

In case you're wondering, this is not a love story. My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I l… read more

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6. The Art of Being Normal

By: Lisa Williamson

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The sch… read more

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7. What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

By: Becky Albertalli

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the u… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1) book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"No spoilers!"

-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

"God, Arthur."

-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

"Never say never,"

-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

"Sometimes New York feels like a full body corset."

-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

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8. Boy Like Me

By: Simon James Green

4.55

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's Boy Like Me book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
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9. Proud

By: Juno Dawson

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzlin… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Proud book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. You'll Be the Death of Me

By: Karen M. McManus

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's You'll Be the Death of Me book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Silence falls as we get lost in our own regrets."

-Karen M. McManus, You'll Be the Death of Me

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11. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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12. Bloom

By: Kevin Panetta

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Panetta's Bloom book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Jeez! Why is my family manhandling me at this wedding?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"...what does he think is going to happen? An angel will just fall from the sky?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Got 'em! Comfortable shoes! Oh my God. They're like pillows. I hate high heels."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

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13. Loveless

By: Alice Oseman

4.20

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I ha… read more

Similar categories in Alice Oseman's Loveless book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"God, I am sad gay and alone"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

" Some little comedy play? Apologize to Oscar Wilde right the fuck now!"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"I wasn’t going to die alone. I was going to try harder. I wanted forever love. I didn’t want to be loveless."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

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14. Cinderella Is Dead

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.68

Format: 400 pages, ebook

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now re… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella Is Dead book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
"Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"People wear masks so that they can fit in and stay safe. Can you blame them?"

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"it feel like another part of me is being changed to fit someone else's vision of what is pretty."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other..."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

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15. The Henna Wars

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's The Henna Wars book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

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16. Girls in Boys' Cars

By: Felicity Castagna

3.42

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more

Similar categories in Felicity Castagna's Girls in Boys' Cars book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

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17. Opposite of Always

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.65

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make,… read more

Similar categories in Justin A. Reynolds's Opposite of Always book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You have to talk to me, J." She crosses her arms. "I am." "No, you're talking through me and sometimes at me, but not to me."

-Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

"Nothing good in life comes easy, but it's about deciding each day that you will stick with it. You choose to stay, to work, to love, and you keep choosing."

-Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

"You can try your hardest to change something-exhaust every possibility-and sometimes it's still not enough. But almost means you were there. You did all you could."

-Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

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18. Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.91

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the v… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
"I’m disrespectful,"

-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)

"Come on, Snow. Let's see America."

-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)

"It might not be the circle of life,"

-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)

"I'd tie our hearts together, chamber by chamber."

-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)

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19. Out of the Blue

By: Jason June

3.62

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more

Similar categories in Jason June's Out of the Blue book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

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20. Jemima Small Versus the Universe

By: Tamsin Winter

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jemima Small just wants to be like other girls. She hates being called "Jemima Big", being forced t… read more

Similar categories in Tamsin Winter's Jemima Small Versus the Universe book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Finding Phoebe

By: Gavin Extence

4.39

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

'Totally enchanting, warm and funny' Ciara Smyth, author of Not My Problem‘Neurodiversity has a voi… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Extence's Finding Phoebe book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Some Girls Do book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

Cover of Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5) by Becky Albertalli

23. Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5)

By: Becky Albertalli

3.63

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this high… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5) book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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24. Parachutes

By: Kelly Yang

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Parachutes book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Welcome to America! Where everyone walks around in gym clothes and nobody goes to the gym!"

-Kelly Yang, Parachutes

"Is this what the rest of my life is going to be like? Moments of happiness punctured by the memory of what happened, like a bomb which can detonate at any time."

-Kelly Yang, Parachutes

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25. Emmy in the Key of Code

By: Aimee Lucido

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this innovative middle grade novel, coding and music take center stage as new girl Emmy tries to… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Lucido's Emmy in the Key of Code book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You can wait until you're ready."

-Aimee Lucido, Emmy in the Key of Code

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26. Gay Club!

By: Simon James Green

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A landmark comedic novel about a group of queer teens at their worst - and ultimately their best - … read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's Gay Club! book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. Please Don't Hug Me

By: Kay Kerr

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A funny-serious own-voices story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other peo… read more

Similar categories in Kay Kerr's Please Don't Hug Me book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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28. Fin & Rye & Fireflies

By: Harry Cook

3.95

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

“It started with a kiss…as love stories often do. Jesse Andrews had the arms of a Greek god and he … read more

Similar categories in Harry Cook's Fin & Rye & Fireflies book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. When It Drops

By: Alex Dyson

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Caleb Clifford has earbuds, not real buds. And he prefers it that way. 1. They always give him w… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dyson's When It Drops book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"In a week of agony and darkness, this spark, this glimmer of hope, might have been what pulled him through."

-Alex Dyson, When It Drops

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30. The Forevers

By: Chris Whitaker

3.31

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you knew the world was going to be destroyed by a huge asteroid in one month? … read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's The Forevers book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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31. Clementine and Rudy

By: Siobhan Curham

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Rudy is a street artist; Clementine is a poet. The day after Rudy sneaks out late one night and pos… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy book and Siobhan Curham's Clementine and Rudy

  • young adult
  • contemporary

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Transform Your Habits

Leah on the Offbeat

Becky Albertalli

4.00

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Autoboyography

Christina Lauren

3.32

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What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)

Becky Albertalli

3.82

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Boy Like Me

Simon James Green

4.55

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The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.12

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The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.94

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You'll Be the Death of Me

Karen M. McManus

3.74

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Kara Thomas

3.75

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