Books like…

Books Like Wintergirls

by Laurie Halse Anderson · about this book

Loved Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson? If its young adult, eating disorder content and body image hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with I'm Glad My Mom Died, Girl, Interrupted and Gather. 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 Wintergirls: Young Adult · Eating Disorder Content · Body Image · Self-Harm Content · Self-Harm

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   I'm Glad My Mom Died

   Jennette McCurdy

   Eating Disorder Content · Eating Disorders · Body Image · Dark · Emotional

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   Girl, Interrupted

   Susanna Kaysen

   Self-Harm Content · Self-Harm · Depression · Haunting · Teen Protagonist

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   Gather

   Kenneth M. Cadow

   Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Grief and Mourning · Teen Protagonist

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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   Suzanne Collins

   Young Adult · Death of a Friend · Grief and Mourning · Intense · Teen Protagonist

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5. 

   Human Acts

   Han Kang

   Death of a Friend · Bleak · Lyrical Prose · Haunting · Teen Protagonist

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6. 

   Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

   Laura Ruby

   Young Adult · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Grief and Mourning · Teen Protagonist

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7. 

   The Fault in Our Stars

   John Green

   Contemporary Fiction · Young Adult · Death of a Friend · Grief and Mourning · Teen Protagonist

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8. 

   The God of Endings

   Jacqueline Holland

   Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Grief and Mourning · Bleak · Emotional

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9. 

   They Both Die at the End

   Adam Silvera

   Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction · Death of a Friend · Grief and Mourning · Teen Protagonist

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10. 

    Jemima J

    Jane Green

    Body Image · Eating Disorders · Contemporary Fiction · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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11. 

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    Death of a Friend · Young Adult · Teen Protagonist · Lyrical Prose · Grief and Mourning

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12. 

    A Sky Beyond the Storm

    Sabaa Tahir

    Death of a Friend · Young Adult · Grief and Mourning · Intense · Emotional

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13. 

    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Death of a Friend · Haunting · Contemporary Fiction · Grief and Mourning · Lyrical Prose

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14. 

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    J.K. Rowling

    Death of a Friend · Young Adult · Anxiety · Grief and Mourning · Emotional

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15. 

    The Dark Vault

    Victoria Schwab

    Young Adult · Haunting · Grief and Mourning · Teen Protagonist · Dark

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16. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Haunting · Bleak · Death of a Friend · Grief and Mourning · Emotional

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17. 

    Juniper & Thorn

    Ava Reid

    Eating Disorder Content · Eating Disorders · Lyrical Prose · First Person Narrator · Dark

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18. 

    Don't Let the Forest In

    C.G. Drews

    Anxiety · Young Adult · Lyrical Prose · Teen Protagonist · First Person Narrator

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19. 

    The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

    Stephanie Oakes

    Young Adult · Intense · Emotional · Teen Protagonist · Contemporary Fiction

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20. 

    Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

    Sarafina El-Badry Nance

    Eating Disorders · Eating Disorder Content · Emotional · Female Lead · Trauma Recovery

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