AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Undercurrent

Paul Blackwell · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Girl Death Left Behind

Lurlene McDaniel · 176 pages

Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultAccident SurvivalTeen Protagonist
❤️

Beyond the Reflection's Edge

Bryan Davis · 400 pages

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

The Wendy Project

Melissa Jane Osborne · 93 pages

16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotia

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistAccident Survival
❤️

Strange Attractors

William Sleator · 177 pages

Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different timeline.

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Eternity's Wheel

Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves · 288 pages

It has been two years since Joseph Harker first Walked between dimensions, met the alternate forms of himself, and formed a team to protect the Altiverse in the struggle between the vicious forces of magic and science--and now, injured, he has returned to his own dimension, bringing danger with him.

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

The Protected

Claire Zorn · 276 pages

Nearly a year after her popular older sister's accidental death, Hannah meets Anne, a guidance counselor, and Josh, a potential new friend, who offer her the chance to move forward.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistAccident Survival
❤️

In a World Just Right

Jen Brooks · 419 pages

Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Aubrey, a scarred loner, escapes at will into other worlds of his making but suddenly, the world where a popular girl is his long-term girlfriend is intersecting reality in startling ways.

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

The Drowning

Rachel Ward · 270 pages

Fifteen-year-old Carl Adams awakens beside his drowned brother, unable to remember anything about himself, the incident, or the girl who rides with him in the ambulance.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Wise Young Fool

Sean Beaudoin · 438 pages

A teenaged guitarist in a rock band deals with loss and anger as he relates the events that landed him in a juvenile detention center. A teenaged guitarist in a rock band deals with loss and anger as he relates the events that landed him in a juvenile detention center. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual situations, and drug use.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Fair Coin

E.C. Myers

When evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day, teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds to make things right.

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

The Road of the Dead

Kevin Brooks · 368 pages

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Secrets in the Fire

Henning Mankell · 176 pages

Death of a SiblingTeen ProtagonistAccident SurvivalYoung Adult
❤️

Wildside

Steven Gould · 318 pages

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

This Side of Salvation

Jeri Smith-Ready · 368 pages

After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David's life is beginning to make sense again his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

Francisco X. Stork · 344 pages

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Parallel UniverseTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultScience Fiction
❤️

The Pause

John Larkin · 336 pages

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars

E. Lockhart · 320 pages

A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistThriller
❤️

Brother in the Land

Robert Swindells · 160 pages

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany · 336 pages

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth:

Parallel UniverseTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMale Lead
❤️

City of Secrets

Mary Hoffman

The much-awaited fourth title in the bestselling Stravaganza series When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici cl

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
❤️

Thicker Than Water

Kelly Fiore Stultz · 307 pages

Cecelia Price killed her brother. At least, that's what the police and the district attorney are saying. Although CeCe is now locked up and forced into treatment, she knows the story is much more complicated. Cyrus wasn't always a drug-addled monster. He used to be a successful athlete, but when an injury forced Cyrus off the soccer field and onto pain medication, his life became a blur of anger,

Death of a SiblingYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistThriller
❤️

As I Wake

Elizabeth Scott · 269 pages

Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistScience Fiction
❤️

Be My Enemy

Ian McDonald

Parallel UniverseYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMale Lead

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.