6 Best mental health books like Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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Starfish

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

4.19

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushi…

"I feel like I'm the one made out of paper."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I feel like I'm the one made out of paper."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

If you liked the mental health plot in Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Psychology for Dummies

By: Adam Cash

3.72

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

What do psychologists do? Why do they do it? Does it take some sort of special aptitude to become a… read more

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"Developmental psychology is a metatheory that is built on the idea that mental processes and behavior change over time, from one mental process to another in a progressive manner. Mental processes ar…"

-Adam Cash, Psychology for Dummies

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2. Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm (The Grisha #1-2)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of th… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm (The Grisha #1-2) book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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3. Reality Boy

By: A.S. King

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Gerald Faust knows exactly when he started feeling angry: the day his mother invited a reality tele… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's Reality Boy book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

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

4. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

By: Laura Shovan

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Laura Shovan's engaging, big-hearted debut is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transfor… read more

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5. The Astonishing Color of After

By: Emily X.R. Pan

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turn… read more

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6. Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book

By: Jomny Sun

4.00

Format: 212 pages, ebook

The illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, where he meets all sorts of creature… read more

Similar categories in Jomny Sun's Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

7. Absent

By: Katie Williams

4.07

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit i… read more

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8. La tercera puerta

By: Norma Huidobro

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Fue una intuicion, mas que una certeza, pero aun antes de abrir la puerta tijera, me di cuenta de q… read more

Similar categories in Norma Huidobro's La tercera puerta book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

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9. 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 Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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10. 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 Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"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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11. Proud

By: Juno Dawson

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzlin… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Proud book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

12. ¿alex, quizas?

By: Jenn Benet

3.66

Format: None pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Jenn Benet's ¿alex, quizas? book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
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13. Starfish

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

4.19

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushi… read more

Similar categories in Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • art
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"I feel like I'm the one made out of paper."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"I live my life in the small space between "uncomfortable and "awkward."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

"If I can’t figure out how to live on my own一how to do things on my own一how am I supposed to live at all?"

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

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14. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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15. Yolk

By: Mary H.K. Choi

3.96

Format: 400 pages, None

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two e… read more

Similar categories in Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"Marriages are the original tiny cult."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"People aren't abandoning you just because they go."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

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16. The Opposite of Falling Apart

By: Micah Good

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

To get back up sometimes you have to fall down, hard . . . What's the point of pretending nothin… read more

Similar categories in Micah Good's The Opposite of Falling Apart book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Sorry For Your Loss

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.25

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Printz Honor winner and William Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley’s latest YA novel is a comit… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ann Foley's Sorry For Your Loss book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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18. All the Invisible Things

By: Orlagh Collins

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A warm, witty, important story about being a young woman today, and what it's like to find a real c… read more

Similar categories in Orlagh Collins's All the Invisible Things book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Something to Say

By: Lisa Moore Ramée

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Good Kind of Trouble, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book, comes another unforgetta… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Moore Ramée's Something to Say book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Kind of Sort of Fine

By: Spencer Hall

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Senior year changes everything for two teens in this coming-of-age story that looks at what happens… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Hall's Kind of Sort of Fine book and Akemi Dawn Bowman's Starfish

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Junji Ito - Histoires courtes by Junji Ito

21. Junji Ito - Histoires courtes

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ce volume unique grand format rassemble les nouvelles créées par le maître Junji Ito pour l'éditeur… read more

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Leigh Bardugo

3.57

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

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