Me (16F) needs book recommendations! Mostly looking for teen romance, angst, heartbreak or just something to uncontrollably sob to
I’m looking for books! To give a better idea of some of the books I love, I’ve read “The Way I Used to be” by Amber Smirth, “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson, and “If He had Been With Me” by Laura Nowlin.
“The history of Jane Doe”- teen romance with heart break.
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Where things come back by John Corey Whaley
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
Going Bovine Libba Bray
Dirty Little Secrets by CJ Omololu.
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The Seven husbands of Evenly Hugo. Cried three times.
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Rainbow Rowell’s books maybe?
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The Charlotte Holmes books by Brittany Cavallaro starting with ‘A study in Charlotte’ An angsty modern retelling of some Sherlock Holmes stories with a teenage girl as the protagonist but told from Jamie Watson’s point of view.
The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce. A young woman pretends to be a boy to train to be a knight in her brother’s place
The Letters to Enchantment Duology by Rebecca Ross.
Two rival journalists end up writing letters to each other during a war using magical typewriters.
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Really cool version of the afterlife after our protagonist is killed in a bicycle accident she goes to the afterlife and in this version you age backward until you get reborn again. She meets her, much younger than she was when she died, grandmother.
The book thief by Markus Zusak and the Messenger by the same author. From the POV of death you see a young girl in Nazi Germany steal books.
The Uglies books by Scott Westerfeld or maybe his Midnighters trilogy. Uglies is a dystopian series. Mightnighters is really fun though.
The House of Night books by PC and Kristen Cast starting with Marked. Vampire novels with magical/Wicca elements. Very angsty. I cried a lot reading these.
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Love and Gelato…please read😭😭❤️
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fault in our stars, definitely! also maybe hold still? i didn’t enjoy it that much but probably because i was too old lol. also everything by malinda lo, beautiful lesbian coming of age
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As Many Nows as I Can Get by Shana Youngdahl
Stay by Deb Caletti
Someday Somewhere by Lindsay Champion
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You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao- I bawled my eyes out
The Grace Year- like Lord of the flies but w girls and actually good, it’s my fav book
I hope this doesn’t find you- academic rivals to lovers, girls email draft rants get sent out to everyone
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A Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Cursed Princess Club by Lambcat (it’s a comic btw)
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Five Feet Apart. I can’t remember the author but it is about teens with cystic fibrosis
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Okay so I’m doing a mix of genres here because some of them are similar to what you have read, are what you’re looking for, are at a similar level, and are just good YA books
* Before I Die by Jenny Downham (you will sob + some romance)
* The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (you will sob)
* Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (romance)
* Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas (teen romance, angst, heartbreak)
* Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood (teen romance, angst)
* The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin (teen romance, angst, heartbreak etc)
* The Lonliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James (angst, some romance, thriller)
* The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater (romance, angst)
* We Were Liars By E Lockhart (thriller/mystery)
* Allegedly by Tiffany D Jackson (mystery)
(edit: Before I Die was made into a movie called “Now Is Good” staring Dakota Fanning and I didn’t even make it 30min before I was sobbing)
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Me Before You
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They both die at the end
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“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë.
“Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs (basis for musical Oklahoma!”
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Girl, I got you. Im 19, and these are the books I loved when I was 16.
Our chemical hearts by Krystal Sutherland
The beginning of everything (the perfect YA book imo)
Looking for Alaska
Highly suspicious and unfairly cute by Talia Hibbert
Frankly in love – David Yoon
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
everything i never told you (READ THIS BOOK PLEASE)
Tell me three things(prob my favourite, but in an indulgent kind of way)
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Where the red fern grows
John Green. Just… any/all of them.
If You Come Softly I’d a good sob fest
“The history of Jane Doe”- teen romance with heart break.
Where things come back by John Corey Whaley
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
Going Bovine Libba Bray
Dirty Little Secrets by CJ Omololu.
The Seven husbands of Evenly Hugo. Cried three times.
Rainbow Rowell’s books maybe?
The Charlotte Holmes books by Brittany Cavallaro starting with ‘A study in Charlotte’ An angsty modern retelling of some Sherlock Holmes stories with a teenage girl as the protagonist but told from Jamie Watson’s point of view.
The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce. A young woman pretends to be a boy to train to be a knight in her brother’s place
The Letters to Enchantment Duology by Rebecca Ross.
Two rival journalists end up writing letters to each other during a war using magical typewriters.
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Really cool version of the afterlife after our protagonist is killed in a bicycle accident she goes to the afterlife and in this version you age backward until you get reborn again. She meets her, much younger than she was when she died, grandmother.
The book thief by Markus Zusak and the Messenger by the same author. From the POV of death you see a young girl in Nazi Germany steal books.
The Uglies books by Scott Westerfeld or maybe his Midnighters trilogy. Uglies is a dystopian series. Mightnighters is really fun though.
The House of Night books by PC and Kristen Cast starting with Marked. Vampire novels with magical/Wicca elements. Very angsty. I cried a lot reading these.
Love and Gelato…please read😭😭❤️
fault in our stars, definitely! also maybe hold still? i didn’t enjoy it that much but probably because i was too old lol. also everything by malinda lo, beautiful lesbian coming of age
As Many Nows as I Can Get by Shana Youngdahl
Stay by Deb Caletti
Someday Somewhere by Lindsay Champion
You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao- I bawled my eyes out
The Grace Year- like Lord of the flies but w girls and actually good, it’s my fav book
I hope this doesn’t find you- academic rivals to lovers, girls email draft rants get sent out to everyone
A Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Cursed Princess Club by Lambcat (it’s a comic btw)
Five Feet Apart. I can’t remember the author but it is about teens with cystic fibrosis
Okay so I’m doing a mix of genres here because some of them are similar to what you have read, are what you’re looking for, are at a similar level, and are just good YA books
* Before I Die by Jenny Downham (you will sob + some romance)
* The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (you will sob)
* Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (romance)
* Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas (teen romance, angst, heartbreak)
* Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood (teen romance, angst)
* The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin (teen romance, angst, heartbreak etc)
* The Lonliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James (angst, some romance, thriller)
* The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater (romance, angst)
* We Were Liars By E Lockhart (thriller/mystery)
* Allegedly by Tiffany D Jackson (mystery)
(edit: Before I Die was made into a movie called “Now Is Good” staring Dakota Fanning and I didn’t even make it 30min before I was sobbing)
Me Before You
They both die at the end
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë.
“Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs (basis for musical Oklahoma!”
Girl, I got you. Im 19, and these are the books I loved when I was 16.
Our chemical hearts by Krystal Sutherland
The beginning of everything (the perfect YA book imo)
Looking for Alaska
Highly suspicious and unfairly cute by Talia Hibbert
Frankly in love – David Yoon
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
everything i never told you (READ THIS BOOK PLEASE)
Tell me three things(prob my favourite, but in an indulgent kind of way)
The perks of being a wallflower