16 Best fiction books like How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

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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…

"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 when I am not a body? How funny, to be inside when I am outside."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

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1. 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

Similar categories in Michael Thomas Ford's Suicide Notes book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"you either are or aren't"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't ask to be saved"

-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

Cover of If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

2. If He Had Been with Me

By: Laura Nowlin

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August ni… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If He Had Been with Me book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Way I Used to Be

By: Amber Smith

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN . In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Amber Smith's The Way I Used to Be book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. We Are Okay

By: Nina LaCour

3.94

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, you… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's We Are Okay book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I'm glad we didn't know better."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

6. 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • 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

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

12. 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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13. 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

Similar categories in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • 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

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14. The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2)

By: Amber Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Eden and Josh decide to give their relationship another chance in this much anticipated sequel to t… read more

Similar categories in Amber Smith's The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2) book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of How It Feels to Float by Helena  Fox

15. 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

Similar categories in Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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

Cover of If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) by Laura Nowlin

16. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

By: Laura Nowlin

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

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17. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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18. 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

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's You'd Be Home Now book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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20. I Fell in Love With Hope

By: Lancali

3.88

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy wh… read more

Similar categories in Lancali's I Fell in Love With Hope book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I never feel anything,"

-Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

"All my tomorrows are yours."

-Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

"Suns can’t see their own light."

-Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

"Hope isn’t meant to save people"

-Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

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21. The Glass Girl

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Glass Girl book and Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

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If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin

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This Is Where It Ends

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3.82

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Tillie Cole

4.07

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Freida McFadden

3.94

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