13 Top science fiction books like The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist

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The Different Girl

By: Gordon Dahlquist

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near fut…

"When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe."

-Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

"When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe."

-Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

By: Mary E. Pearson

3.69

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from… read more

Similar categories in Mary E. Pearson's The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • futuristic
  • science fiction
"I used to be someone."

-Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

"Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed."

-Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

"I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white."

-Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

"The house is still, like the breath has been punched out of it."

-Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

Cover of I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1) by Pittacus Lore

2. I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

By: Pittacus Lore

3.94

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We… read more

Similar categories in Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Hope?"

-Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

"A place is only as good as the people in it."

-Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

"Best way to deal with fear is to confront it."

-Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

"He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it."

-Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

Cover of The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5) by Sarah J. Maas

3. The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

By: Sarah J. Maas

4.39

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

One final mission could be the beginning...or the end. Celaena Sardothien is the assassin with a p… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"My name is Sam Cortland, and I will not be afraid."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

"Celaena era fuego y oscuridad, era polvo, sangre y sombra."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

"She shook off his grip. "I am what I am, and I don't particularly care what you think of me."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

"If the Vaults were the heart of Rifthold's underworld, then the glass castle was the soul of Adarlan's empire."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

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4. Son (The Giver, #4)

By: Lois Lowry

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a s… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Son (The Giver, #4) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Upside of Unrequited

By: Becky Albertalli

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love--she's lived through it twenty… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
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6. The Treatment (The Program, #2)

By: Suzanne Young

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surroun… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Young's The Treatment (The Program, #2) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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7. The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)

By: Paul Zindel

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  When sophomores John and Lorraine p… read more

Similar categories in Paul Zindel's The Pigman (The Pigman, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult

8. Genuine Fraud

By: E. Lockhart

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many… read more

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9. Ten

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Shhhh! Don't spread the word! Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island. You do … read more

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10. We Are the Ants

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

There are a few things Henry Denton knows, and a few things he doesn't. Henry knows that his mom is… read more

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11. Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

By: Shannon Hale

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this second book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Prin… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"You forgot to cough!"

-Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

"You can be who you will,"

-Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

"Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late."

-Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

"I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me."

-Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

Cover of The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4) by Sarah J. Maas

12. The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4)

By: Sarah J. Maas

4.33

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight s… read more

Similar categories in Sarah J. Maas's The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4)

"From today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4)

"And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever."

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4)

"I love you," he repeated, shaking her again. "I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he's always know how I felt, too. But if I asked you to pick, you'd choose Arobynn, and I. Ca…"

-Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4)

Cover of The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist

13. The Different Girl

By: Gordon Dahlquist

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near fut… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • survival
  • robots
  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • futuristic
  • science fiction
"When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of wha…"

-Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

Cover of Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1) by Jennifer Donnelly

14. Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)

By: Jennifer Donnelly

3.83

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burde… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Donnelly's Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Serafina, Ava, Ling, and Becca swam inside. Neela followed them, but at the very last second, shield. “I can’t,"

-Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)

"You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It …"

-Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)

"I know why this place creeps me out," Neela suddenly said. "There aren't any children here." "Of course there aren't," Josephine said. "Rorrim Drol hates children." "Why?" Neela asked. "Because they'…"

-Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)

"Daughter of Merrow, leave your sleep, The ways of childhood no more to keep. The dream will die, a nightmare rise, Sleep no more, child, open your eyes... Daughter of Merrow, chosen one, The end begi…"

-Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)

15. 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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16. Flawed (Flawed, #1)

By: Cecelia Ahern

4.11

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

You will be punished… Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, … read more

Similar categories in Cecelia Ahern's Flawed (Flawed, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"I told you I'd find you."

-Cecelia Ahern, Flawed (Flawed, #1)

"I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know."

-Cecelia Ahern, Flawed (Flawed, #1)

"I was jealous of your perfection. And now I’m jealous that you’re Flawed."

-Cecelia Ahern, Flawed (Flawed, #1)

"Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power."

-Cecelia Ahern, Flawed (Flawed, #1)

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17. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

Similar categories in Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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18. The Girls I've Been

By: Tess Sharpe

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank he… read more

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
"I hate the whole “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else's."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you'll find one who hits back."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

Cover of Nyxia Uprising (The Nyxia Triad, #3) by Scott Reintgen

19. Nyxia Uprising (The Nyxia Triad, #3)

By: Scott Reintgen

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Nyxia Triad series finale, Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces w… read more

Similar categories in Scott Reintgen's Nyxia Uprising (The Nyxia Triad, #3) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Nyxia Unleashed (The Nyxia Triad, #2) by Scott Reintgen

20. Nyxia Unleashed (The Nyxia Triad, #2)

By: Scott Reintgen

4.20

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But sur… read more

Similar categories in Scott Reintgen's Nyxia Unleashed (The Nyxia Triad, #2) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

21. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Cover of Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1) by Giovanna Fletcher

22. Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1)

By: Giovanna Fletcher

4.08

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE . . . … read more

Similar categories in Giovanna Fletcher's Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • teen
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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23. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. Freeman's Alone book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • survival
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2) by Namina Forna

24. The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2)

By: Namina Forna

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered … read more

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"She herself threw other girls on the metaphorical and even physical pyre. I should be used to it now, the way women sometimes betray other women, the way they align themselves with men, if only to gu…"

-Namina Forna, The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2)

Cover of The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1) by Namina Forna

25. The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

By: Namina Forna

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whet… read more

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"He's crying as he kills me"

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"No matter my origins, there is worth in what I am."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"It's the ritual that gives legitimacy to the murder."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

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26. The Girl in White Gloves

By: Kerri Maher

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A life in snapshots… Grace knows what people see. She’s the Cinderella story. An icon of glamor… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Maher's The Girl in White Gloves book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
Cover of Melt for Us (Order of the Unseen, #1.5) by Molly Doyle

27. Melt for Us (Order of the Unseen, #1.5)

By: Molly Doyle

3.64

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

After going to a cabin in the woods, Quinn finds herself stuck in the midst of a blizzard with her … read more

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28. The Extraordinaries

By: T.J. Klune

4.07

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a … read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's The Extraordinaries book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Be gay. Do crimes."

-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

"We're a lighthouse, Nick. A beacon to help them find their way home."

-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

"Your house isn't haunted! Your aunt is such a liar. She distracted me with cookies and lies!"

-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

"Boys can be anything girls can. And girls can be anything boys can. My mom says that sometimes; boys can even be girls."

-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

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29. The Body

By: Stephen King

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Body book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke."

-Stephen King, The Body

Cover of Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2) by Anita Kelly

30. Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2)

By: Anita Kelly

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of Love & Other Disasters comes a sparkling grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2) book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • fiction
"Do they miss me? Does it count if the person they miss isn’t actually me? ​​​"

-Anita Kelly, Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2)

Cover of Don't Let in the Cold by Keely Parrack

31. Don't Let in the Cold

By: Keely Parrack

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The storm isn't the only thing they'll have to survive. It was supposed to be just one night in … read more

Similar categories in Keely Parrack's Don't Let in the Cold book and Gordon Dahlquist's The Different Girl

  • mystery
  • survival
  • fiction
  • young adult

26 Best fiction books like The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist

Transform Your Habits

The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)

Mary E. Pearson

3.69

Transform Your Habits

I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

Pittacus Lore

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Assassin and the Empire (Throne of Glass, #0.5)

Sarah J. Maas

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Son (The Giver, #4)

Lois Lowry

3.78

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20 Top fiction books like The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2) by Namina Forna

Transform Your Habits

So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

Kamilah Cole

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2)

Namina Forna

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

Jordan Ifueko

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)

Jordan Ifueko

4.24

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