Why is Nobody Laughing?
By: Yasmin Rahman
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Will the real Ibrahim Malik please stand up? Ibrahim and Dexter have been best friends forever. …
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1. The Society For Soulless Girls
By: Laura Steven
3.63
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny YA thriller with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Prin… read more
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- young adult
"Also I was nineteen, and therefore immortal."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"She was almost insultingly beautiful, albeit in a satanic sort of way."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
2. Queen of the Tiles
By: Hanna Alkaf
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen gi… read more
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- contemporary
- young adult
- mental health
3. Crossing the Line
By: Tia Fisher
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more
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- contemporary
- young adult
- mental health
4. You Think You Know Me
By: Ayaan Mohamud
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A stunning debut about finding the strength to speak up against hate and fear, for fans of The Hate… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
5. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)
By: Josh Silver
4.04
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
6. 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
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- young adult
7. Just Sayin': My Life In Words
By: Malorie Blackman
4.53
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more
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"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words
8. Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
By: Elsie Chapman
3.70
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of short stories about the intersection of family, culture, and food in the l… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"Like candy and heartbreak, moderation was key."-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
"Oh wow. Bliss. The adobo was perfectly calibrated between my two favorite flavor juxtapositions: sweet and tangy. And the shrimp: practically dissolving in my mouth."-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
"I wonder, just for a second, how it will taste on Gael's tongue, the cinnamon and chile en polvo laced into our vanilla cake, the spice a little like what he adds to his family's tamales."-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
"The smell of khoresht e gheihmeh immediately hit my nostrils: The combination of tomato paste, dried limes, cubes of lamb, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, and split yellow lentils all hung sweetly in the …"-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
9. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
10. The Stranded (Stranded, #1)
By: Sarah Daniels
3.56
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
Snowpiercer meets The Hunger Games in a gripping near-future dystopian. Welcome to the Arcadia. … read more
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- young adult
11. How to Die Famous
By: Benjamin Dean
3.65
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A budding teen celebrity secretly investigates his brother's suspicious death while navigating the … read more
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- young adult
12. This Book Kills
By: Ravena Guron
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
I'll make it clear from the I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help…Well, not inte… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"My story, my words, my voice – they are priceless."-Ravena Guron, This Book Kills
13. The King Is Dead
By: Benjamin Dean
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this YA romantic thriller, James—the shy, handsome, mixed-race heir to the British throne—must c… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
14. The Half-Life of Love
By: Brianna Bourne
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Flint Larsen has 41 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes to live. He’s known exactly when he’s going to… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"It’s like … I love my friends,"-Brianna Bourne, The Half-Life of Love
"I want to be more than alive. I want to live."-Brianna Bourne, The Half-Life of Love
"Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses."-Brianna Bourne, The Half-Life of Love
"I can’t press pause on falling for you, even if you won’t be there to catch me five days from now."-Brianna Bourne, The Half-Life of Love
15. Well, That Was Unexpected
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native … read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
16. Needle
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
17. Jamie
By: L.D. Lapinski
4.46
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful and uplifting story from L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, abou… read more
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- contemporary
"Being trans is fine, it's the world that's the problem. And that's what people don't seem to get. There are loads of us as well. Whether you make room for us or not, whether you accept us or not, whe…"-L.D. Lapinski, Jamie
18. If You Still Recognise Me
By: Cynthia So
4.05
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, th… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
19. Four Good Liars
By: Sarah Wishart
3.47
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The unputdownable, explosive new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Colo… read more
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- young adult
20. The Lighthouse
By: Alex Bell
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
On Bird Rock, gannets circle and thick mist surrounds the lighthouse at its centre, hiding the secr… read more
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- young adult
21. Yes No Maybe So
By: Becky Albertalli
3.73
Format: 464 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed have crafted a resonant, funny,… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"Time is literally what life is made of."-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"Oranges don't have nipples," says Sophie"-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"There's nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year."-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"The truth is, it's a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it's so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you're old enough to get it, but... y…"-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
22. The Agency for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #1)
By: Laura Wood
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a… read more
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- young adult
23. The Butterfly Assassin (The Butterfly Assassin #1)
By: Finn Longman
3.90
Format: 412 pages, ebook
Innocent by day, killer by night: a dark, twisting thriller about a teen assassin’s attempt to live… read more
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- young adult
- mental health
24. The Blue Book of Nebo
By: Manon Steffan Ros
4.16
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more
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- young adult
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
25. When Our Worlds Collided
By: Danielle Jawando
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teena… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
26. Rhubarb Lemonade
By: Oskar Kroon
3.74
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An award-winning novel about family old and new, friendship growing into romance, the beauty of the… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"Ik vroeg niets. Bleef stil zitten, met mijn vragen, en hield haar hand in de mijne."-Oskar Kroon, Rhubarb Lemonade
"Vaak heb ik het gevoel alsof ik alleen maar aan het wachten ben. Aan het wachten tot de wind zal komen en mij zal wegvoeren."-Oskar Kroon, Rhubarb Lemonade
"Het zou makkelijker zijn als we elkaar nooit ontmoet hadden. Het zou een stuk saaier zijn als we elkaar nooit ontmoet hadden."-Oskar Kroon, Rhubarb Lemonade
"Ik heb iemand die op me wacht. iemand die met mij samen wil zijn. Dat is nog nooit eerder echt gebeurd, weet je, niet op deze manier."-Oskar Kroon, Rhubarb Lemonade
27. This Is How You Fall in Love
By: Anika Hussain
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Zara and Adnan are just friends. Always have been, always will be. Even if they have to pretend to … read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
28. 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
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- young adult
- contemporary
29. Activist
By: Louisa Reid
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When a heartbreaking testimony appears on an anonymous website, it's easier for Cassie's prestigiou… read more
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- young adult
30. Enemies to Lovers
By: Laura Jane Williams
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Flo Greenberg: highly strung. Over-achiever. And desperate for a relaxing Greek holiday with her fa… read more
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- contemporary
- mental health
31. Why is Nobody Laughing?
By: Yasmin Rahman
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Will the real Ibrahim Malik please stand up? Ibrahim and Dexter have been best friends forever. … read more
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- contemporary
- young adult
- mental health
