It's Kind of a Funny Story
By: Ned Vizzini
4.08
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means gettin…
Want to Read $ 7.99"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
By: John Green , David Levithan
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two stranger… read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal."-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
"Some people have lives; some people have music."-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
"Random questions are the least random of all questions."-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
"All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug."-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
2. 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
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- realistic fiction
- psychology
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"I didn't ask to be saved"-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
"you either are or aren't"-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
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
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Impulse (Impulse, #1)
By: Ellen Hopkins
3.92
Format: 98 pages,
Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three li… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Looking for Alaska
By: John Green
3.97
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big no… read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."-John Green, Looking for Alaska
"We are greater than the sum of our parts."-John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Have you really read all those books in your room?"-John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."-John Green, Looking for Alaska
6. 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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7. 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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8. It's Kind of a Funny Story
By: Ned Vizzini
4.08
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means gettin… read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real."-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed."-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
9. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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- mental illness
- fiction
- psychology
- mental health
"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Stephen Chbosky
4.23
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see wha… read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
"We accept the love we think we deserve."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"It’s much easier not to know things sometimes."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
11. Go Ask Alice
By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more
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12. They Both Die at the End
By: Adam Silvera
4.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give t… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Wintergirls
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, L… read more
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16. Eleanor & Park
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.94
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I'm … read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"You look like a protagonist."-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever."-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him."-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts."-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
17. 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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18. 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
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- romance
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"I’m sorry."-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
"Everything...affects everything"-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
"A lot of you cared, just not enough."-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
19. 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
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- romance
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- 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
20. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
By: Jesse Andrews
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social … read more
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21. Girl, Interrupted
By: Susanna Kaysen
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more
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22. Paper Towns
By: John Green
3.71
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurou… read more
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Imagine others complexly."-John Green, Paper Towns
"At least I carpe'd that one diem."-John Green, Paper Towns
"I spy with my little eye a great story."-John Green, Paper Towns
"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."-John Green, Paper Towns
23. 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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24. Turtles All the Way Down
By: John Green
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, … read more
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25. Speak
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you… read more
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- teen
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
26. 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
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- 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
27. 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
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- coming of age
- 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
28. 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
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
29. 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
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- romance
- teen
- coming of age
- 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
30. Every Star That Falls
By: Michael Thomas Ford
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This much-anticipated sequel to the acclaimed fan-favorite novel Suicide Notes is a funny, touching… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- psychology
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
31. 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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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- 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
