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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLove Letters to the Dead
Ava Dellaira · 327 pages
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
If I Stay
Gayle Forman · 272 pages
*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, an
The Secrets We Keep
Trisha Leaver · 298 pages
"When her identical twin sister Maddy is killed in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Ella assumes Maddy's life, only to discover that it was filled with dark secrets"--
Dreamland
Sarah Dessen · 256 pages
Rogerson Biscoe, with his green eyes and dark curly hair, is absolutely seductive. Before long, sixteen-year-old Caitlin finds herself under his spell. And when he starts to abuse her, she finds she's in too deep to get herself out...
Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index
Julie Israel · 338 pages
After finding a break-up letter written by her older sister on the day she died, sixteen-year-old Juniper Lemon becomes determined to find the recipient--only identified as "you"--and in the process uncovers other notes and secrets that demand her attention.
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
Cynthia Hand · 390 pages
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real. After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lexie struggles with grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and
The Sky Is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson · 275 pages
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
The Sea of Tranquility
Katja Millay · 398 pages
I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things:
All Rivers Flow To The Sea
Alison McGhee · 174 pages
After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood · 250 pages
The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right. Charlie St. Cloud's life has been haunted by the ghost of his younger brother, who was killed in a car wreck that Charlie miraculously survived.
Waiting
Carol Lynch Williams
As the tragic death of her older brother devastates the family, teenaged London struggles to find redemption and finds herself torn between her brother's best friend and a handsome new boy in town.
My Beating Teenage Heart
C.K. Kelly Martin · 274 pages
Two unexpected and heartbreaking deaths cause the lives of two very different teenagers to become intertwined as one struggles to deal with his grief and stay in this world, and the other finds herself inexplicably caught between this world and the next.
Can't Look Away
Donna Cooner · 264 pages
Sixteen-year-old Torrey Grey's YouTube videos on fashion and beauty for teenagers were famous, but when her younger sister is killed by a drunk driver during a filming her world falls apart--cyber bullies are attacking her, her father moves them to Texas, and she does not know who to trust at her new school or whether her cousin is really a friend. Torrey Grey is famous, at least on the Internet.
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett · 322 pages
"One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six
While My Sister Sleeps
Barbara Delinsky · 355 pages
A story of hope - a marathon runner in her final race, this time for her life, allows her three family members to face their demons and move on.When a woman in her early thirties, oldest of three siblings and an avid runner, has a heart attack that leaves her brain-dead and on life support her family has to make the painful decision of when to pull the plug.Robin Snow is a world class marathon run
Jane in Bloom
Deborah Lytton
Janes big sister, Lizzie, has always been the center of attention. No one ever pays attention to boring, plain Jane. But when Janes twelfth birthday marks the beginning of Lizzies fi nal descent into a fatal eating disorder, Jane discovers that the only thing harder than living in her big sisters shadow is living without her.In the wake of tragedy, Jane learns to look through her camera lens and f
Saving Zoë
Alyson Noel
Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.
The Summer of Letting Go
Gae Polisner · 336 pages
Four years after her brother Simon drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend. Fifteen-year-old Francesca blames herself for the death of her brother, Simon, but she begins to move on after a summer of caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reinca
Shala de yao shi
Tatiana de Rosnay · 335 pages
Searching for David's Heart: A Christmas Story
Cherie Bennett · 143 pages
When Darcie's brother David dies in a car crash, she feels guilty for his death. But the time she finds out that his heart was donated to another person, she tries her hardest to look for her brother, wherever his heart is beating. P.S. This book is a MUST HAVE!
The Beginning of After
Jennifer Castle · 425 pages
In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.
Dear Zoe
Philip Beard · 208 pages
Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world- worried and self-centered, funny