20 must-read contemporary books like Sofa Surfer by Malcolm Duffy

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Sofa Surfer

By: Malcolm Duffy

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'A story with great heart, and wisdom, which shows the healing power of true friendship' Ele Founta…

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1. It Only Happens in the Movies

By: Holly Bourne

3.76

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Audrey is over romance. While dealing with her parents’ contentious divorce, a breakup of her own, … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Why love is never like the movies"

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"Or maybe there’s a type of laughter that only feels good with old friends."

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"Hell is other people and what they do in the anonymous dark of the cinema."

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

"All I'm saying is, love changes over time. No person is ever perfect for another person"

-Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies

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2. Stone Cold

By: Robert Swindells

3.27

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

'It's like parachuting. Get the first jump over and it becomes routine, but you mustn't get complac… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)

By: Holly Bourne

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

All Evie wants is to be normal. She's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows h… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. The Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Parents' Choice Recommended From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exc… read more

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5. How Hard Can Love Be? (The Spinster Club, #2)

By: Holly Bourne

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Amber, Evie and Lottie: three girls facing down tough issues with the combined powers of friendship… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary

6. 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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7. Refugee Boy

By: Benjamin Zephaniah

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A Children's Book … read more

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8. Girl, Missing (Girl, Missing, #1)

By: Sophie McKenzie

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that sh… read more

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9. Rooftoppers

By: Katherine Rundell

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from … read more

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10. The Girls I've Been

By: Tess Sharpe

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank he… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I hate the whole “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else's."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you'll find one who hits back."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

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11. Run, Rebel

By: Manjeet Mann

4.30

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

When Amber runs, it's the only time she feels completely free - far away from her claustrophobic ho… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

By: Karen M. McManus

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series. Ever since… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"What is Bayview best known for? Revenge."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"There has to be a whole other level of pain when your soul gets ripped in half."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"It's unreal how fast the inner voice you thought was gone can jump back into your head to tell you how much you suck."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

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13. The Sad Ghost Club

By: Lize Meddings

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find y… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. 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

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  • young adult contemporary
  • 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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15. 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
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16. When the Sky Falls

By: Phil Earle

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story. It's 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff wom… read more

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  • young adult
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17. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

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18. Girl, Goddess, Queen

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more

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  • young adult
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

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19. You'd Be Home Now

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.15

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The air was better then."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

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20. The New Girl

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.43

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Lia Setiawan has never really fit in. When she wins a full ride to the prestigious Draycott Academy… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You pretended you had to go get your laptop because you couldn't afford to buy dinner for yourself after swiping me through?"

-Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

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21. You Could Be So Pretty

By: Holly Bourne

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A dystopian YA novel with a shocking twist, You Could Be So Pretty is The Beauty Myth for teenagers… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. The First Move

By: Jenny Ireland

3.79

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don't get their own love stories. She exist… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. Baby Love

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.21

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequ… read more

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  • young adult
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24. Birdsong

By: Katya Balen

4.31

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The blackbirds’ song uplifts and restores in this captivating novella from one of the most exciting… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. Two for Joy (The Magpie Society, #2)

By: Zoe Sugg

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Audrey and Ivy, determined to bring their fellow student Lola Radcliffe's killer to justice, find t… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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26. Resist

By: Tom Palmer

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a beautif… read more

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  • young adult
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27. WildSpark

By: Vashti Hardy

4.22

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood's family is still shattered by grief. But… read more

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28. Chinglish

By: Sue Cheung

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos: a) Grandparents don’t speak English at allb) Mum … read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

By: Brian Conaghan

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

`Child experts will tell you that I'm way too young to carry such a burden of responsibility on my … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Because paper is a thing,"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"And all I want to do is tell her that she should have no shame, but for some reason I choose not to. I do the tasks impassively, as if she were a mannequin, a non-human. And that fucking shame is all…"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

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30. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

By: Holly Bourne

3.94

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe."

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they're being the way they're being. It takes time …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"You don't have to stop looking after yourself just to help the world. In fact, sometimes it's better for the world if you put yourself first. That's not being selfish, in fact looking after yourself …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

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31. Sofa Surfer

By: Malcolm Duffy

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'A story with great heart, and wisdom, which shows the healing power of true friendship' Ele Founta… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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It Only Happens in the Movies

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3.76

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Robert Swindells

3.27

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Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)

Holly Bourne

3.39

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3.80

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Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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Sue Divin

3.97

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