Books like…

Books Like Hopeless

by Colleen Hoover · about this book

Loved Hopeless by Colleen Hoover? If its series, female lead and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with A Court of Mist and Fury, Good Morning, Monster and Acheron. 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 Hopeless: Series · Female Lead · First Person Narrator · Romance · Childhood Trauma

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   A Court of Mist and Fury

   Sarah J. Maas

   Trauma Recovery · Emotional Abuse · Protective Love Interest · Intense · First Person Narrator

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   Good Morning, Monster

   Catherine Gildiner

   Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Emotional Abuse · Trauma Recovery · Sexual Assault

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   Acheron

   Sherrilyn Kenyon

   Childhood Trauma · Emotional Abuse · Sexual Assault · Child Abuse · Protective Love Interest

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   Gold

   Raven Kennedy

   Trauma Recovery · Emotional Abuse · Intense · Protective Love Interest · Series

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5. 

   What My Bones Know

   Stephanie Foo

   Childhood Trauma · Trauma Recovery · Emotional Abuse · Child Abuse · Emotional

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6. 

   The Girl Who Played with Fire

   Stieg Larsson

   Childhood Trauma · Sexual Assault · Child Abuse · Sexual Assault Content · Intense

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7. 

   Strange Sally Diamond

   Liz Nugent

   Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Sexual Assault Content · Tense and Suspenseful · Twisty

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8. 

   Onyx Storm

   Rebecca Yarros

   Twisty · Protective Love Interest · Intense · Spicy · First Person Narrator

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9. 

   I'm Glad My Mom Died

   Jennette McCurdy

   Childhood Trauma · Trauma Recovery · Child Abuse · Emotional Abuse · First Person Narrator

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10. 

    Say You're Sorry

    Karen Rose

    Childhood Trauma · Trauma Recovery · Protective Love Interest · Tense and Suspenseful · Fast-Paced

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11. 

    Catching Fire

    Suzanne Collins

    Intense · First Person Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful · Twisty · Series

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12. 

    Hunting Adeline

    H D Carlton

    Sexual Assault Content · Trauma Recovery · Intense · Romance · Series

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13. 

    Killer Instinct

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Childhood Trauma · Twisty · Intense · Tense and Suspenseful · First Person Narrator

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14. 

    Burnt Sugar

    Avni Doshi

    Childhood Trauma · Emotional Abuse · Unreliable Narrator · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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15. 

    When We Were Silent

    Fiona McPhillips

    Sexual Assault · Sexual Assault Content · Child Abuse · Intense · Emotional

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16. 

    None of This Is True

    Lisa Jewell

    Child Abuse · Unreliable Narrator · Sexual Assault Content · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful

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17. 

    A Flicker in the Dark

    Stacy Willingham

    Childhood Trauma · Unreliable Narrator · First Person Narrator · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful

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18. 

    Crooked Kingdom

    Leigh Bardugo

    Childhood Trauma · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful · Series · Emotional

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19. 

    An Ember in the Ashes

    Sabaa Tahir

    Sexual Assault · Intense · First Person Narrator · Series · Fast-Paced

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20. 

    The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

    Stephanie Oakes

    Trauma Recovery · Child Abuse · Intense · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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