9 Top high school books like My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

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My Mechanical Romance

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The …

"Are you into opera or something?"

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"honestly? physics is easy. what's hard is feeling like i want to be invisible all the time."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"You're such a nerd." "Oh, I know. My mom tells me all the time, but apparently nerds are hot now."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"Everyone at this school has plans, and then they want me to have plans, and I’m just so overwhelmed by their good intentions that I constantly feel the need to lie down for a solid five minutes before trying again."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

If you liked the high school plot in My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Tweet Cute

By: Emma Lord

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Tweet Cute book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"XOXO gossip wolf"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"Are you a witch?"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"I won't think any less of you if you break it"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing."

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

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2. I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By: Ann Liang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

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3. The Do-Over

By: Lynn Painter

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea an… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Do-Over book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Everybody likes cats in sweaters"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

" I had a marvelous time ruining everything "

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I fell in love with you on Valentine’s day, Emilie, but I need more than just seven minutes."

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

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4. Not Here to Be Liked

By: Michelle Quach

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Emergency Contact meets Moxie in this cheeky and searing novel that unpacks just how complicated ne… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Quach's Not Here to Be Liked book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"You can’t not submit it,"

-Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

"Is it possible to be hungover from too much boba?"

-Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

"To be human is hard enough. Don’t make it harder for yourself."

-Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

"everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do."

-Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

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5. If You Could See the Sun

By: Ann Liang

4.02

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's If You Could See the Sun book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Yeah."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Hmph,"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Yan Yan!"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"What your mama always say? If you not good person, you're nothing. Nothing."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

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6. This Time It's Real

By: Ann Liang

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes vira… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's This Time It's Real book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We weren’t flirting,"

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I want this to be real."

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I'm not going anywhere. I promise."

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I hope you remember to miss me when all this is over"

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

Cover of This May End Badly by Samantha Markum

7. This May End Badly

By: Samantha Markum

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Pranking mastermind Doe and her motley band of Weston girls are determined to win the century-long … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Markum's This May End Badly book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I grin, imagining it. “I can hear your creepy smile right now."

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"Stranger Danger. You can't "stranger danger" someone when you asked them to date you."

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"What, worried I’ll find your secret fetish porn stash and tell everyone about your anime bondage tentacle kink?"

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"I’d say your worth isn’t decided by whether or not you can get a girl-starved demon from Winfield to lay his nasty fish lips you"

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

Cover of My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

8. My Mechanical Romance

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The … read more

Similar categories in Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Are you into opera or something?"

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"honestly? physics is easy. what's hard is feeling like i want to be invisible all the time."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"You're such a nerd." "Oh, I know. My mom tells me all the time, but apparently nerds are hot now."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"Everyone at this school has plans, and then they want me to have plans, and I’m just so overwhelmed by their good intentions that I constantly feel the need to lie down for a solid five minutes befor…"

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

Cover of Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

9. Check & Mate

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destru… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Check & Mate book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"— Потому что, когда я с тобой, Мэллори, все по-другому. Когда я с тобой, я больше хочу играть, чем выигрывать."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Because when I´m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I´m with you, I want to play more than I want to win."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Nolan?' 'Hmm?' 'Why did you come to Vegas?' His fingers tighten around mine. my heart cartwheels. 'Mallory. I came because you did."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

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10. See You Yesterday

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.89

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But whe… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's See You Yesterday book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Maybe not," he says. "But it's nice to dream."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, See You Yesterday

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11. A Show for Two

By: Tashie Bhuiyan

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mina Rahman has a plan for her future: • Finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition, … read more

Similar categories in Tashie Bhuiyan's A Show for Two book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Home is where you find love"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"We're raised to see our parents as infallible, to believe they're incapable of making mistakes– but what about when they do? When they keep making them? What about when their mistakes hurt us?"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"I'm not sure how old I was when I realized my parents were never going to love me the way I wanted them to– that their love was conditional, dependent on my own behavior and whether I fit their defin…"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"This place is my home. These people are my home. I have memories in the cracks of every sidewalk, good and bad. Everywhere I go, I'll see the faces of people who have cherished me. I can run and run …"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

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12. I Wish You Would

By: Eva Des Lauriers

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In this drama-filled love story, private confessions are scattered on the beach during a senior cla… read more

Similar categories in Eva Des Lauriers's I Wish You Would book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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13. Betting on You

By: Lynn Painter

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Betting on You book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

14. Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

4.06

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgetta… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1) book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"You like it,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM, ALTUM VIDETUR."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"People change , Rowan. Thank God they do."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

Cover of Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1) by Lynn Painter

15. Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

By: Lynn Painter

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic t… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1) book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"She's not you." "What?" "She.Isn't.You"

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I pulled back and let myself stare at his handsome face, at the person who had always been there for me, even when I hadn’t wanted him to be."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"Here’s how it usually went: I would see a cute guy, daydream about him for weeks and totally build him up in my mind to be my one-and-only soul mate."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

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16. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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17. Rules for Rule Breaking

By: Talia Tucker

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced i… read more

Similar categories in Talia Tucker's Rules for Rule Breaking book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Better than the Prom (Better than the Movies, #1.5) by Lynn Painter

18. Better than the Prom (Better than the Movies, #1.5)

By: Lynn Painter

4.39

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Prom night has arrived, and Wes Bennett couldn’t be less excited. Not only is he not going with … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Better than the Prom (Better than the Movies, #1.5) book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
Cover of Dungeons and Drama (Dungeons and Drama, #1) by Kristy Boyce

19. Dungeons and Drama (Dungeons and Drama, #1)

By: Kristy Boyce

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dat… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Boyce's Dungeons and Drama (Dungeons and Drama, #1) book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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20. Those Summer Nights

By: Laura Silverman

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new summer job, an ex-bes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Those Summer Nights book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Boy You Always Wanted

By: Michelle Quach

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Francine always has a plan. Ollie wants no part of it. Francine loves her grandfather, but their… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Quach's The Boy You Always Wanted book and Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

Transform Your Habits

Tweet Cute

Emma Lord

3.89

Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Do-Over

Lynn Painter

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Not Here to Be Liked

Michelle Quach

3.66

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Rebecca Ross

4.20

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Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

Rebecca Ross

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

Stephanie Garber

4.13

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