5 Best romance books like Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Cover of Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Twisted

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.82

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average st…

"I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

If you liked the romance plot in Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Die for Me (Revenants, #1) by Amy Plum

1. Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

By: Amy Plum

3.98

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart ag… read more

Similar categories in Amy Plum's Die for Me (Revenants, #1) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Well spit on my empty grave if it ain't the attack of the disney princesses!"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate. Your utterly, Vincent."

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

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2. Crank (Crank, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.16

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

In Crank, Ellen Hopkins chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Crank (Crank, #1) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • romance
  • high school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A vacation is a poor substitute for love."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?"

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

Cover of King Dork (King Dork, #1) by Frank Portman

3. King Dork (King Dork, #1)

By: Frank Portman

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this coming-of-age, rock-and-roll, Da Vinci Code-style tale, high school loser Tom Henderson dis… read more

Similar categories in Frank Portman's King Dork (King Dork, #1) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • high school
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain."

-Frank Portman, King Dork (King Dork, #1)

"There's something weird and sexual about the way some people talk about God--have you noticed?"

-Frank Portman, King Dork (King Dork, #1)

"There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start."

-Frank Portman, King Dork (King Dork, #1)

"Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon."

-Frank Portman, King Dork (King Dork, #1)

Cover of Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

4. Twisted

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.82

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average st… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • romance
  • high school
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

"I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mo…"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

Cover of Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

5. Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

3.72

Format: 599 pages, Hardcover

BELIEVING IS DANGEROUS... Darcy Patel is afraid to believe all the hype. But it's really happeni… read more

Similar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The universe is math on fire."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"But books don't happen by accident."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"The best way to know a city is to eat it."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"But doesn’t real love work the other way round?"

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

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6. The Replacement

By: Brenna Yovanoff

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world o… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Right Behind You by Gail Giles

7. Right Behind You

By: Gail Giles

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready f… read more

Similar categories in Gail Giles's Right Behind You book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Going Bovine by Libba Bray

8. Going Bovine

By: Libba Bray

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Can Cameron find what he's looking for? All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school… read more

Similar categories in Libba Bray's Going Bovine book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

9. Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)

By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Hardcover

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gilbert Murdock's Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Feral Youth by Shaun David Hutchinson, Brandy Colbert, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Justina Ireland, Suzanne Young, E.C. Myers, Tim Floreen, Stephanie Kuehn, Robin Talley, Marieke Nijkamp

10. Feral Youth

By: Shaun David Hutchinson , Brandy Colbert , Alaya Dawn Johnson , Justina Ireland , Suzanne Young , E.C. Myers , Tim Floreen , Stephanie Kuehn , Robin Talley , Marieke Nijkamp

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard w… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's Feral Youth book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe

11. 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 Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • fiction
  • teen
  • 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

Cover of Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny (Junie B. Jones, #27) by Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus

12. Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny (Junie B. Jones, #27)

By: Barbara Park , Denise Brunkus

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet the World's Funniest First Grader--Junie B. Jones! It's an Easter Egg-stravaganza! With over 5… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Park's Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny (Junie B. Jones, #27) book and Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction

13. The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)

By: E. Lockhart

5.00

Format: None pages,

Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it's unusual, but give her a break--she's had a rough… read more

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14. Cut

By: Patricia McCormick

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to fe… read more

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15. Your Voice Is All I Hear

By: Leah Scheier

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

I was the one he trusted. I was the one he loved, the only one who believed him, even when his own … read more

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16. The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)

By: Robin McKinley

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it. It w… read more

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17. Peeps (Peeps, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Last year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that… read more

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18. Autumn Falls (Autumn Falls, #1)

By: Bella Thorne

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Hardcover

New friends, new enemies . . . can a magical journal change Autumn's crazy life? With her fiery red… read more

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19. Split

By: Swati Avasthi

3.92

Format: 256 pages,

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20. The Geography of You and Me

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment bui… read more

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21. Junie B., First Grader: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff) (Junie B. Jones, #28)

By: Barbara Park

4.23

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Meet the World's Funniest First Grader--Junie B. Jones! Gobble, gobble! With over 50 million books … read more

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