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Books Like Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes · about this book

Loved Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes? If its science fiction, diary format and emotional hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Outsiders, The Fault in Our Stars and The Time Traveler's Wife. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Flowers for Algernon: Science Fiction · Diary Format · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Tragic

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Tragic · Tearjerker · Emotional · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator

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   The Fault in Our Stars

   John Green

   Disability Representation · Tragic · First Person Narrator · Emotional · Tearjerker

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   The Time Traveler's Wife

   Audrey Niffenegger

   Tragic · Tearjerker · Disability Representation · Emotional · Science Fiction

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   Never Let Me Go

   Kazuo Ishiguro

   Tragic · Science Fiction · Bittersweet · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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   They Both Die at the End

   Adam Silvera

   Tragic · Tearjerker · Emotional · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator

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   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Disability Representation · Tragic · Emotional · Bittersweet · Male Lead

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   Frankenstein

   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

   Tragic · Science Fiction · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Emotional

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   The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

   Robert Dugoni

   Disability Representation · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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   Piranesi

   Susanna Clarke

   Diary Format · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Emotional · Male Lead

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    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    Diary Format · Tragic · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Tragic · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Male Lead

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    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Disability Representation · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator · Emotional · Character-Driven

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    All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr

    Disability Representation · Tragic · Emotional · Bittersweet · Male Lead

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    Assassin's Apprentice

    Robin Hobb

    Bittersweet · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Character-Driven

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    The Song of Achilles

    Madeline Miller

    Tragic · Tearjerker · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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    How High We Go in the Dark

    Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Science Fiction · Tearjerker · Bittersweet · Emotional · Character-Driven

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    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    Tragic · Tearjerker · Emotional · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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18. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

    Disability Representation · Bittersweet · Emotional · Male Lead · Character-Driven

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    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Science Fiction · Bittersweet · First Person Narrator · Emotional · Character-Driven

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    A Far Better Thing

    H.G. Parry

    Tragic · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Male Lead · Emotional

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