Thirteen Reasons Why is now not only a wildly popular tough-topics book for teens, but a Netflix series, too. There are so many similar novels out there, it wasn’t hard to pull together a list. I started with NoveList, but made use of subject headings including “suicide” and “grief,” too. While most of these novels don’t have the nifty cassette concept or an equivalent, many of them deal with topics many teens face daily. Whether they find comfort in these fictionalized versions of events in their real lives or enjoy the inherently high drama of these stories, teens will likely find at least one book to interest them in this set. Check out pictures of the display below along with a list of books I used.
Just after this I got straight to work on straightening the YA graphic novels.
The Good Sister | Jamie Kain |
Please Ignore Vera Dietz | A. S. King |
Wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson |
Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia | Jenny Torres Sanchez |
34 Pieces of You | Carmen Rodriguez |
The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
Ghostgirl | Tanya Hurley |
Love Letters to the Dead | Ava Dellaira |
Boy Proof | Cecil Castellucci |
The Spectacular Now | Tim Tharp |
Teach Me to Forget | Erica Chapman |
The Memory of light | Francisco X Stork |
The Last Time We Say Goodbye | Cynthia Hand |
When Reason Breaks | Cindy L. Rodriguez |
Falling into Place | Amy Zhang |
And We Stay | Jenny Hubbard |
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock | Matthew Quick |
Fall for Anything | Courtney Summers |
All the Rage | Courtney Summers |
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead | Julie Ann Peters |
Suicide Notes | Michael Thomas Ford |
Stay with Me | Garret Freyman-Weyr |
The Beginning of After | Jennifer Castle |
After | Kristin Harmel |
The Beginner’s Guide to Living | Lia Hills |
A Map of the Known World | Lisa Ann Sandell |
It’s Kind of a Funny Story | Ned Vizzini |
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman |
Saving Francesca | Melina Marchetta |
Waiting for You | Susane Colasanti |
Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver |
If I Stay | Gayle Forman |
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac | Gabrielle Zevin |
The Body of Christopher Creed | Carol Plum-Ucci |
Willow | Julie Hoban |
Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone | Kat Rosenfeld |
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