28 Best fiction books like The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) by Mindy McGinnis

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The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep…

"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. Now it’s a dead thing, still in my chest. And if I can’t feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn’t hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. Now it’s a dead thing, still in my chest. And if I can’t feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn’t hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

If you liked the fiction plot in The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) by Mindy McGinnis , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. All These Bodies

By: Kendare Blake

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation. Summer 1958—a string of mur… read more

Similar categories in Kendare Blake's All These Bodies book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"All these bodies without blood,"

-Kendare Blake, All These Bodies

"I always thought that about Marie. That the trauma had aged her. Took the life out and left something else behind."

-Kendare Blake, All These Bodies

"The road was hard-packed with snow, and the air was crisp and clean. Orange light flickered in the trees from the fire someone had started by the shore but we’d have been able to see without it: out …"

-Kendare Blake, All These Bodies

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2. 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 Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"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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3. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Blum's The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“Jane” was just your typical 17-year-old getting ready to start her senior year. She had a part-tim… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Faria Stolarz's Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1) book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. N…"

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

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6. The Switch

By: Roland Smith

3.89

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the power goes out? And doesn't come back for days... weeks... even longer? Maste… read more

Similar categories in Roland Smith's The Switch book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • suspense
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7. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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8. The Counselors

By: Jessica Goodman

3.54

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. She's always had a special co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Counselors book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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9. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany D. Jackson's The Weight of Blood book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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11. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Agathas (The Agathas #1) book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."

-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

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12. Someone Is Always Watching

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blythe and her friends—Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya—have always been a tight … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Someone Is Always Watching book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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13. The Hollow Inside

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Sadie meets The Glass Castle in a smart, gripping, and twisty YA debut about a girl seeking to reve… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's The Hollow Inside book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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15. We Can Be Heroes

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kyrie McCauley, author of If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's We Can Be Heroes book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So…"

-Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

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16. Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us… read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's Very Bad People book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Fadeaway

By: E.B. Vickers

3.88

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

When a high school basketball star goes missing, a town’s secrets are exposed in this edge-of-your … read more

Similar categories in E.B. Vickers's Fadeaway book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. Concealed

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ivette Joanna And now: Katrina Whatever her name is, it won't last long. Katrina doesn't k… read more

Similar categories in Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Concealed book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. I'm the Girl

By: Courtney Summers

3.39

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The new groundbreaking queer thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar-award Winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's I'm the Girl book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. What Beauty There Is

By: Cory Anderson

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. Jack Morton has nothing left. Except… read more

Similar categories in Cory Anderson's What Beauty There Is book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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22. Girl on the Run (Underlined Paperbacks)

By: Abigail Johnson

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced original paperback thriller about a girl who discovers that her mother might not be wh… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Johnson's Girl on the Run (Underlined Paperbacks) book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. Air

By: Monica Roe

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more

Similar categories in Monica Roe's Air book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Right Side of Reckless

By: Whitney D. Grandison

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

He’s never met a rule he didn’t break… She’s followed the rules her whole life… When they meet, one… read more

Similar categories in Whitney D. Grandison's The Right Side of Reckless book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's The Getaway book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. Four Letter Word

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-pounding thriller, Izzy and her family welcome an exchange student into their home. B… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's Four Letter Word book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Anxiety was the great silencer."

-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word

"[She] glanced at the gray, damp sky and wondered if love made you believe that even the grossest days were beautiful."

-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word

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27. Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and heartbreaking contemporary story a… read more

Similar categories in Jared Reck's Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
" HAMBURGARE Hand-patted, local grass-fed beef, homemade buns ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- POMMES FRITES Fresh-cut fries ---- ---- ---- MUNKAR ---- ---- ---- ---- "

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"Goat cheese poutine. Fresh-cut fries. Thick, rich beef gravy. Some other secret goodies splashed in. And creamy, tangy goat cheese. Jösses, the stuff was life-changing."

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"We stuck with the traditional Äpple Munk and the favorite munkhål, but we also added a seasonal one I'd been working on in Mrs. Bixler's room during this dramatic lull in school-apple leftovers. I'd …"

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"I wonder if maybe Farfar's heaven would be steering his own kart, inside the game, his gray ponytail slowly flapping in the lessened gravity of Rainbow Road, cackling as a smiling puff-cloud fishes h…"

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

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28. Eat Your Heart Out

By: Kelly deVos

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A YA thriller about a kickass group of teens battling a ravenous group of zombies. In the next f… read more

Similar categories in Kelly deVos's Eat Your Heart Out book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Problem with Prophecies (The Celia Cleary Series, #1) by Scott Reintgen

29. The Problem with Prophecies (The Celia Cleary Series, #1)

By: Scott Reintgen

4.24

Format: 352 pages, ebook

“A sweet yet deeply moving portrait of the highs and lows involved in finding one’s place in a wild… read more

Similar categories in Scott Reintgen's The Problem with Prophecies (The Celia Cleary Series, #1) book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • young adult
Cover of On the Subject of Unmentionable Things by Julia Walton

30. On the Subject of Unmentionable Things

By: Julia Walton

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully a… read more

Similar categories in Julia Walton's On the Subject of Unmentionable Things book and Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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Jeff Zentner

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Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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