23 Top fiction books like Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale

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Kind of a Big Deal

By: Shannon Hale

2.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Shannon Hale, bestselling author of Austenland, comes Kind of a Big Deal: a hilarious, madcap …

"We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment. Allow yourself room to change"

-Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal

"We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment. Allow yourself room to change"

-Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal

"We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment. Allow yourself room to change"

-Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal

If you liked the fiction plot in Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Southern Charmed

By: Melanie Jacobson

3.91

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Lila Mae Guidry is a Southern girl through and through. As a fourth-generation Latter-day Saint in … read more

Similar categories in Melanie Jacobson's Southern Charmed book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Comics Will Break Your Heart

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.50

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Miriam's family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator of smash-hit comics s… read more

Similar categories in Faith Erin Hicks's Comics Will Break Your Heart book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Would you appreciate a unicorn if they were as common as horses?"

-Faith Erin Hicks, Comics Will Break Your Heart

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3. Paper Hearts (The Heartbreaker Chronicles, #2)

By: Ali Novak

3.39

Format: 440 pages, ebook

"When I met Alec Williams, I nearly fainted. Totally embarrassing, but how often does a regular gir… read more

Similar categories in Ali Novak's Paper Hearts (The Heartbreaker Chronicles, #2) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. The Rose Legacy

By: Jessica Day George

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley has been shuttled between family members her whole life. When she re… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Day George's The Rose Legacy book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)

By: Jessica Day George

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A tale of twelve princesses doomed to dance until dawn... Galen is a young soldier returning from w… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Day George's Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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6. Work: A Story of Experience

By: Louisa May Alcott , Joy S. Kasson

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart o… read more

Similar categories in Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • fiction

7. Lies Jane Austen Told Me

By: Julie Wright

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ever since Emma read Pride and Prejudice,she's been in love with Mr. Darcy and has regarded Jane Au… read more

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8. Love, Life, and the List

By: Kasie West

3.50

Format: 121 pages, ebook

Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner's summer isn't going the way she'd planned. She has a not-so-secret … read more

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9. With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse wh… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Promchanted

By: Morgan Matson

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. Stella Griffin doesn’t b… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Promchanted book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Whenever I tried to wear a low ponytail, I inevitably looked like a Founding Father. And not the attractive ones, like Hamilton."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"Promise,' Nisha had agreed. She'd held out her pinky and we'd linked them to get and shaken, entering what every fourth-grader knows is a binding contract."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"If you like someone, I realized in one incandescent flash, you liked them in a disgusting dungeon next to a literal pile of bones. You liked them everywhere. Because it wasn't about the setting-it wa…"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"You can't stop people from things that hurt and are hard, Stella. You can't reroute to avoid pain at all costs. You can't plan your way around everything. Sometimes, you just have to go through with …"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

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11. Kind of a Big Deal

By: Shannon Hale

2.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Shannon Hale, bestselling author of Austenland, comes Kind of a Big Deal: a hilarious, madcap … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • magical realism
  • teen
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment…"

-Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal

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12. Instant Karma (Fortuna Beach, #1)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrog… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Instant Karma (Fortuna Beach, #1) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's ironic, right? The economy is great, but it's always a struggle for the little guy."

-Marissa Meyer, Instant Karma (Fortuna Beach, #1)

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13. I'm Not Charlotte Lucas

By: Kasey Stockton

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Northern California girl Charlotte “Charlie” Lucas has two great loves: Diet Coke and Pride and Pre… read more

Similar categories in Kasey Stockton's I'm Not Charlotte Lucas book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Creep: A Love Story

By: Lygia Day Peñaflor

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You  meets  To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before  in this twisted, tragic love story that follows Holy… read more

Similar categories in Lygia Day Peñaflor's Creep: A Love Story book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I think about how I'm controlling the present so that someday I will have controlled the past, and I think I understand."

-Lygia Day Peñaflor, Creep: A Love Story

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16. A Proper Charade (Proper Scandals, #2)

By: Esther Hatch

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lady Patience Kendrick was born to a life of privilege, and with the London Season looming, she fin… read more

Similar categories in Esther Hatch's A Proper Charade (Proper Scandals, #2) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I'm so tired. I'm so tired all the time." Her words were coming in small gasps. "I think I could do everything better if I weren't so tired"

-Esther Hatch, A Proper Charade (Proper Scandals, #2)

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17. Eagle Drums

By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more

Similar categories in Nasugraq Rainey Hopson's Eagle Drums book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. By the Book

By: Amanda Sellet

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, e… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Sellet's By the Book book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You said she had a condition?"

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"To my fellow readers: I hope you never run out of good books."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"When's the last time you took a risk? I'm talking IRL, not in your reading material."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"Your life," she corrected. "It's the nature of existence. To err is human. We screw up, and then screw up some more."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

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19. My Imaginary Mary (Mary, #2)

By: Cynthia Hand

3.80

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

It’s aliiiiiiiive! The bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Hand's My Imaginary Mary (Mary, #2) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things

By: Jacqueline Firkins

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this charming debut about first love and second chances, a young girl gets caught between the bo… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Firkins's Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Edge of Thirteen (The Secrets We Keep, #3)

By: Nova Weetman

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when the… read more

Similar categories in Nova Weetman's The Edge of Thirteen (The Secrets We Keep, #3) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. She's Faking It

By: Kristin Rockaway

3.48

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You can’t put a filter on reality. Bree Bozeman isn’t exactly pursuing the life of her dreams. T… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Rockaway's She's Faking It book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What we had wasn't love. It was inertia. An excuse to never move forward."

-Kristin Rockaway, She's Faking It

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23. What I Like About You

By: Marisa Kanter

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can... but in the real world, it's more … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. W…"

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

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24. To Ride the Wind: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 1)

By: Melanie Cellier

4.46

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte has always longed to be accepted by her older sisters. She would gladly exchange her vaun… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Cellier's To Ride the Wind: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 1) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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25. Happily and Madly

By: Alexis Bass

3.61

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Alexis Bass' Happily and Madly is a mature, twisty, compulsively readable YA suspense novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Bass's Happily and Madly book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You can regret doing something as much as you can regret doing nothing."

-Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

"At least when someone lets you down, you can stop expecting things from them."

-Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

"I've got that sickening feeling now that I know I've been wrong about everything. One of life's tricks. You can go with your gut. You can pick someone to trust. You can be wrong."

-Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

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26. Offsides With My Ex-Boyfriend (Falling For A Tomboy Book 1)

By: Christina Benjamin

3.87

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Is there anything worse than being coached by your ex? Actually yes, watching your nemesis hit o… read more

Similar categories in Christina Benjamin's Offsides With My Ex-Boyfriend (Falling For A Tomboy Book 1) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. The Stars Above Northumberland

By: Anita Stansfield

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Her husband is dead. But far from grieving, young widow Lady Meriwether Sturgess feels nothing but … read more

Similar categories in Anita Stansfield's The Stars Above Northumberland book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fiction
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28. Please Don't Hug Me

By: Kay Kerr

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A funny-serious own-voices story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other peo… read more

Similar categories in Kay Kerr's Please Don't Hug Me book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. Once Upon a Climb: 5 Steps Every Dreamer Should Know

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.44

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An insightful and motivating book by New York Times best-selling author Jennifer A. Nielsen for any… read more

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30. To Steal the Sun: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 2)

By: Melanie Cellier

4.38

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Gwen has discovered both the love she once lost and her courage. But her greatest challenge still l… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Cellier's To Steal the Sun: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 2) book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

  • romance
  • fantasy
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31. Just for Clicks

By: Kara McDowell

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mommy blogs are great . . . unless the blog happens to belong to your mom. Twin sisters Claire &… read more

Similar categories in Kara McDowell's Just for Clicks book and Shannon Hale's Kind of a Big Deal

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

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Melanie Jacobson

3.91

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3.50

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Ali Novak

3.39

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Julie Wright

3.88

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Megan Walker

4.42

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Kasey Stockton

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Megan Walker

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