14 Top young adult books like Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

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Some Girls Are

By: Courtney Summers

3.88

Format: 255 pages, ebook

Classic Courtney Summers with a brand new look and exclusive bonus material! This ebook edition of …

"You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in my head, because fuck."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

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1. The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

By: Megan Shepherd

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London — working as a maid, attendin… read more

Similar categories in Megan Shepherd's The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"He was a survivor, like me"

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

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2. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

By: Gabrielle Zevin

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for t… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

"Jesus, I thought Zuckerman was cheating in you, Chief."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

"You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

"But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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3. The Pledge (The Pledge, #1)

By: Kimberly Derting

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Derting's The Pledge (The Pledge, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • young adult
Cover of Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1) by Beth Fantaskey

4. Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)

By: Beth Fantaskey

3.84

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The undead can really screw up your senior year ... Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into … read more

Similar categories in Beth Fantaskey's Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"My greatest friend is truth."

-Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)

"What is love if not a form of alchemy?"

-Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)

"…If anything else, all I ever did was love you…."

-Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)

"One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful"

-Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)

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5. A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)

By: Laura Whitcomb

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the fi… read more

Similar categories in Laura Whitcomb's A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling, #1) by Megan McCafferty

6. Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling, #1)

By: Megan McCafferty

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

"My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most… read more

Similar categories in Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
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7. Impossible (Impossible, #1)

By: Nancy Werlin

3.67

Format: None pages,

Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family c… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Werlin's Impossible (Impossible, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
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8. Winter's Passage (Iron Fey, #1.5)

By: Julie Kagawa

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl..until she discovered that she is really a faery princess.… read more

Similar categories in Julie Kagawa's Winter's Passage (Iron Fey, #1.5) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • young adult
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9. Eve (Eve, #1)

By: Anna Carey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Where do you go when nowhere is safe? Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's … read more

Similar categories in Anna Carey's Eve (Eve, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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10. 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 Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • 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

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11. Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)

By: L.A. Meyer

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy Life as a ship's boy a… read more

Similar categories in L.A. Meyer's Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

12. Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kami Glass loves someone she's never met... a boy she's talked to in her head ever since she was bo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rees Brennan's Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • young adult

13. Jinx

By: Meg Cabot

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

It's not easy being Jinx. Jean Honeychurch hates her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just… read more

Similar categories in Meg Cabot's Jinx book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • young adult

14. Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)

By: Gayle Forman

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read. Before you find out how their story ends, remember how … read more

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15. Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2)

By: Tamora Pierce

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Beka Cooper is no longer a Puppy. She's a Dog now - a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, w… read more

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16. All in Pieces

By: Suzanne Young

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

"Anger-management issues." That's how they classified Savannah Sutton after she stuck a pencil in h… read more

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17. Marcelo in the Real World

By: Francisco X. Stork

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has… read more

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18. Darkest Hour (The Mediator, #4)

By: Meg Cabot

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

What - or who - is buried in Susannah's backyard? When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Sil… read more

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19. Some Girls Are

By: Courtney Summers

3.88

Format: 255 pages, ebook

Classic Courtney Summers with a brand new look and exclusive bonus material! This ebook edition of … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • abuse
"You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in my head, because fuck."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling."

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

"There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-…"

-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

20. Need (Need, #1)

By: Carrie Jones

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Jones's Need (Need, #1) book and Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are

21. Mirage (Mirage, #1)

By: Somaiya Daud

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

A YA fantasy/SF trilogy inspired by the author's Moroccan background, in which a poor girl from an … read more

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Megan Shepherd

3.68

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Gabrielle Zevin

3.67

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Beth Fantaskey

3.84

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3.95

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Aimee Carter

3.79

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Rick Yancey

3.91

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