14 Best mental health books like The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

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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,…

If you liked the mental health plot in The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Suicide Notes

By: Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does th… read more

Similar categories in Michael Thomas Ford's Suicide Notes book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"you either are or aren't"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't ask to be saved"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy."

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

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2. If He Had Been with Me

By: Laura Nowlin

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August ni… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If He Had Been with Me book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

3. This Is Where It Ends

By: Marieke Nijkamp

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity High School finishes her speech, welcoming the entire studen… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Way I Used to Be

By: Amber Smith

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN . In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Amber Smith's The Way I Used to Be book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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 Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • 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

Cover of The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

7. 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 Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

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

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. 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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10. My Heart and Other Black Holes

By: Jasmine Warga

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can … read more

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11. Every Last Word

By: Tamara Ireland Stone

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of… read more

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12. Girl in Pieces

By: Kathleen Glasgow

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifet… read more

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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 Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • 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. 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

Similar categories in Meg Haston's Paperweight book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

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15. The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2)

By: Amber Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Eden and Josh decide to give their relationship another chance in this much anticipated sequel to t… read more

Similar categories in Amber Smith's The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2) book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. How It Feels to Float

By: Helena Fox

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more

Similar categories in Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

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17. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

By: Laura Nowlin

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

Cover of How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

18. How to Make Friends with the Dark

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Always the universe, against you."

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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19. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

20. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's You'd Be Home Now book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • 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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21. Teach Me to Forget

By: Erica M. Chapman

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ellery’s grief over the loss of her younger sister is pushing her down a dark path in this heartwre… read more

Similar categories in Erica M. Chapman's Teach Me to Forget book and Cynthia Hand's The Last Time We Say Goodbye

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He's like a painting that from a distance is beautiful, but when you get up close it distorts and melds into something ugly, something dark."

-Erica M. Chapman, Teach Me to Forget

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Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

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3.31

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3.82

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4.07

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Freida McFadden

3.94

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