16 best-selling contemporary books like You Know I'm No Good by Jessie Ann Foley

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You Know I'm No Good

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and William C. Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes the story of o…

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1. #MURDERTRENDING

By: Gretchen McNeil

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest 8/18 citizens can enjoy watching the executions o… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult

2. Heretics Anonymous

By: Katie Henry

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Clubmeets Saved!in this hilarious and heartfelt YA debut by author Katie Henry about … read more

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3. In the Wild Light

By: Jeff Zentner

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his P… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's In the Wild Light book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Because for every way the world tries to kill us, it gives us a way to survive. You just gotta find it."

-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

"This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself."

-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

"You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to preserv…"

-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

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4. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

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  • contemporary
  • mental health
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5. You Know I'm No Good

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and William C. Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes the story of o… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • boarding school
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

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7. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Chaos Theory book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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9. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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10. Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir

By: Tyler Feder

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super-cool m… read more

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11. Dragon Hoops

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.33

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

In his latest graphic novel, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight o… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

By: Crystal Maldonado

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole lif… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's Fat Chance, Charlie Vega book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Right! You see me as superhuman! That’s some serious pressure."

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"Just—promise me girls you won't devalue yourselves for anyone. And I mean anyone. You can't. You have to really be kind to yourself and look out for yourself because the world can be cold and cruel. …"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"Sometimes I didn't get it [jokes] at all, but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to make me laugh. He was always just trying his best, and that's what I loved. I know I will never replace…"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

"You need to believe in your value for you, even if you’re not some flawless ethereal being, even if not everyone will see what makes you special, even if your story is a little chaotic. We’re all mes…"

-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

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13. Kate in Waiting

By: Becky Albertalli

3.81

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Car… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's weird how much you have to hold back when you're secretly in love with someone. But then again, the whole point of love is getting close enough that you no longer have to hold back all the...gro…"

-Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

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14. Love in English

By: Maria E. Andreu

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school… read more

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  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own."

-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

"I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?"

-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

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15. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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16. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

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  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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17. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

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  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

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18. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

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19. Star Splitter

By: Matthew J. Kirby

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unra… read more

Similar categories in Matthew J. Kirby's Star Splitter book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Assignment

By: Liza M. Wiemer

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of the classic The Wave and inspired by a real-life incident, this riveting novel explo… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"HumanKIND Welcome Here!"

-Liza M. Wiemer, The Assignment

"This much I've learned, and I want to shout it to the world instead of in my head: THERE ARE NO DIFFERENT RACES OF HUMAN BEINGS! The idea of inferior or superior races is a human construct. It's made…"

-Liza M. Wiemer, The Assignment

"For students, speaking out against any injustice, especially when adults are involved, can be a formidable task. But it's crucial, life-changing, and perhaps even life saving. Here is what I hope you…"

-Liza M. Wiemer, The Assignment

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21. We Are Not Broken

By: George M. Johnson

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New memoir from George M. Johnson that celebrates Black boyhood and brotherhood in all its glory!Th… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's We Are Not Broken book and Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
  • contemporary

16 best-selling fiction books like You Know I'm No Good by Jessie Ann Foley

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#MURDERTRENDING

Gretchen McNeil

4.88

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In the Wild Light

Jeff Zentner

4.46

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You Know I'm No Good

Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

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Huda F Are You?

Huda Fahmy

4.17

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We Deserve Monuments

Jas Hammonds

4.30

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Nic Stone

4.16

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Byron Graves

4.16

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Angie Thomas

4.19

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