14 must-read contemporary books like Better Must Come by Desmond Hall

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Better Must Come

By: Desmond Hall

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Barely Missing Everything meets American Street in this fiercely evocative, action-packed young adu…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Better Must Come by Desmond Hall , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Good Ones Are Taken

By: Taj McCoy

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth gi… read more

Similar categories in Taj McCoy's The Good Ones Are Taken book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

Similar categories in Briony Cameron's The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
Cover of Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar

4. Troubled Waters

By: Mary Annaïse Heglar

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with … read more

Similar categories in Mary Annaïse Heglar's Troubled Waters book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

4.01

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's Daughter of the Merciful Deep book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
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6. What You Leave Behind

By: Wanda M. Morris

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more

Similar categories in Wanda M. Morris's What You Leave Behind book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Sweetness in the Skin

By: Ishi Robinson

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmai… read more

Similar categories in Ishi Robinson's Sweetness in the Skin book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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8. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • young adult
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9. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

Cover of Bitter and Sweet by Rhonda McKnight

10. Bitter and Sweet

By: Rhonda McKnight

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two sisters at a crossroad in life find the answers to their problems in the lessons from the past.… read more

Similar categories in Rhonda McKnight's Bitter and Sweet book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton

12. Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in L.S. Stratton's Do What Godmother Says book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
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13. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...

By: Jason Reynolds

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Unbecoming

By: Seema Yasmin

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two Muslim teens in Texas fight for access to abortion while one harbors a painful secret in this f… read more

Similar categories in Seema Yasmin's Unbecoming book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Better Must Come

By: Desmond Hall

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Barely Missing Everything meets American Street in this fiercely evocative, action-packed young adu… read more

Similar categories in Desmond Hall's Better Must Come book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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18. With Love, Miss Americanah

By: Jane Igharo

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sisi Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move fr… read more

Similar categories in Jane Igharo's With Love, Miss Americanah book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery) by Ian K. Smith

19. Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery)

By: Ian K. Smith

4.25

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creatu… read more

Similar categories in Ian K. Smith's Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery) book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
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20. Ruin Road

By: Lamar Giles

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"My twin, Lamar, is a phenomenal innovative storyteller. His thrillers have laid the groundwork for… read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's Ruin Road book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
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21. Untethered

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

4.47

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, … read more

Similar categories in Angela Jackson-Brown's Untethered book and Desmond Hall's Better Must Come

  • fiction

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