11 must-read fiction books like I Was Here by Gayle Forman

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I Was Here

By: Gayle Forman

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

Cody and Meg were inseparable. Two peas in a pod. Until . . . they weren't anymore. When her best f…

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Cover of Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos

1. Out of Reach

By: Carrie Arcos

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brothe… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"Words stick, even when we don't want them to."

-Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

"I like mornings because each day is like another chance."

-Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

"The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget …"

-Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

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2. These Things I've Done

By: Rebecca Phillips

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Before: Dara and Aubrey have been inseparable since they became best friends in sixth grade. Dara i… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of I Was Here by Gayle Forman

3. I Was Here

By: Gayle Forman

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

Cody and Meg were inseparable. Two peas in a pod. Until . . . they weren't anymore. When her best f… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's I Was Here book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of Kiss Me Kill Me (Scarlett Wakefield, #1) by Lauren Henderson

4. Kiss Me Kill Me (Scarlett Wakefield, #1)

By: Lauren Henderson

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabby's to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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5. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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6. The Last Time We Say Goodbye

By: Cynthia Hand

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

There's death all around us. We just don't pay attention. Until we do. The last time Lex was happy,… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. The Sky Is Everywhere

By: Jandy Nelson

4.36

Format: 512 pages,

Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive T… read more

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8. By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

By: Julie Anne Peters , None

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determin… read more

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9. Lying About Last Summer

By: Sue Wallman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story centres around a girl called Skye, who is sent to a camp for troubled teenagers after her… read more

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10. Holding Up the Universe

By: Jennifer Niven

4.07

Format: None pages,

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's… read more

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11. The Mortal Heart (Beautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories, #1)

By: Kami Garcia , Margaret Stohl

3.43

Format: 240 pages,

Everyone in Gatlin has a story... Before she met and married Mitchell Wate, the beautiful and brill… read more

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12. Thirteen Reasons Why

By: Jay Asher

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is … read more

Similar categories in Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"I’m sorry."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"Everything...affects everything"

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"A lot of you cared, just not enough."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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13. All the Bright Places

By: Jennifer Niven , None

4.12

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Is today a good day to die?"

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Never bullshit a bullshitter."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"People rarely bring flowers to a suicide."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

14. Before I Fall

By: Lauren Oliver

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

With this stunning debut novel, New York Timesbestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of to… read more

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15. Everything, Everything

By: Nicola Yoon , None

3.97

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basical… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"A photograph is a kind of time machine."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"You're not living if you're not regretting."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

16. Paperweight

By: Meg Haston

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center o… read more

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17. From Manchester to the Arctic

By: Sheena Billett

4.31

Format: 261 pages, ebook

In the challenging but rapidly changing 1970s, Connie Sanders, a broken-hearted nurse, flees to the… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground."

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell whe…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"It was almost 3 a.m. before Connie got into bed. Sipping cocoa in the cold daylight and listening to the silence, only punctuated by the distant barking of dogs, she began to wonder what she had done…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

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18. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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19. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • contemporary
Cover of An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

20. An Abundance of Katherines

By: John Green

3.51

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes … read more

Similar categories in John Green's An Abundance of Katherines book and Gayle Forman's I Was Here

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Je pense que j'taime"

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"All hurt is brain hurt."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"I thought you hung the moon."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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21. Viimane hingelind

By: Berit Sootak

3.96

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Gümnaasiumineiu Mirtelile määratakse diagnoosiks vaimuhaigus ja ta saadetakse ravile avalikkuse ees… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult

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Carrie Arcos

3.56

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3.72

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Gayle Forman

3.50

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Lauren Henderson

4.12

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Suzanne Collins

4.09

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Rainbow Rowell

3.95

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E. Lockhart

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