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Lauren Oliver · 2010 · US · literary fiction · young adult
★ 3.88 Goodreads · 349,044 ratings

Samantha Kingston, a popular high school senior, dies in a car crash on the night of February 12 and then wakes up on the same morning, again and again, with seven chances to work out what she has to change.

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12 books for readers of Before I Fall

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 2007 · US 94% match ★ 3.83 Goodreads · 1,039,375 ratings
shares: school, adolescent, young adult · easy read, intimate

Clay Jensen comes home to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who took her own life two weeks earlier, explaining the thirteen reasons why, and he is one of them.

Dear Martin

Nic Stone · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 87,334 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Dear Martin
shares: school, adolescent, young adult · easy read, intimate

Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999 · US 94% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 646,509 ratings
shares: school, adolescent, young adult · easy read, intimate

Melinda Sordino starts high school as an outcast because she called the police at a summer party, and as the year goes on she barely speaks, finding a voice only in art class, while she struggles to face what happened to her that night.

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 1,118,990 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in One of Us Is Lying
shares: suburban, school, adolescent · easy read, intimate

Five students walk into detention at Bayview High and only four walk out: Simon, creator of the school's notorious gossip app, dies, and the other four, each with a secret Simon was about to post, become suspects.

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2005 · US 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 1,792,309 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, friendship, school · easy read, intimate

Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.

Replay

Ken Grimwood · 1986 · US 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 48,077 ratings
shares: time loop, regret · easy read, plain prose

Jeff Winston, a forty-three-year-old radio journalist, dies of a heart attack in 1988 and wakes up in his college dorm in 1963 with all his memories, to live his life again, and again.

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult · 2007 · US 93% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 440,355 ratings
shares: school, adolescent · easy read, wrenching

In nineteen minutes, seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton, bullied since kindergarten, brings guns to his New Hampshire high school, and the town tries to understand how it happened, while the judge assigned to the case has a daughter who was there and says she cannot remember.

Paper Towns

John Green · 2008 · US 92% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 1,524,717 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, friendship · easy read, intimate

Quentin Jacobsen has loved his adventurous neighbour Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar for years, and after she takes him on a night of revenge pranks across Orlando and then disappears, he follows the clues she left behind.

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami · 2009 · Japan 92% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 101,143 ratings
shares: school, adolescent, friendship · intimate, easy read

Two 14-year-olds in a Tokyo school, both targets of relentless bullying, find each other and argue about whether suffering has meaning.

Wonder

R. J. Palacio · 2012 · US 92% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 1,229,189 ratings
shares: school, friendship · easy read, intimate

August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.

May We Be Forgiven

A. M. Homes · 2012 · US 90% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 17,044 ratings
shares: suburban, redemption · easy read, intimate

Harry Silver, a Nixon scholar, sleeps with his brother's wife, and within weeks his brother George's life explodes, leaving Harry to look after his house, his children and his dog.

Beastly

Alex Flinn · 2007 · US 90% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 178,849 ratings
shares: redemption, school, young adult · easy read, intimate

Kyle Kingsbury, the arrogant, handsome son of a New York news anchor, humiliates a girl at school who turns out to be a witch, and she turns him into a beast with two years to find love.