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John Green · 2012 · US · romance · young adult
★ 4.12 Goodreads · 5,904,130 ratings

Sixteen-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster has lived with terminal cancer for years, and at a support group in Indianapolis she meets Augustus Waters, a funny, confident boy who changes how she spends the time she has.

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12 books for readers of The Fault in Our Stars

Paper Towns

John Green · 2008 · US 96% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 1,524,717 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, philosophical, coming of age · 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.

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2005 · US 96% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 1,792,309 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, philosophical, coming of age · easy read, wrenching

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.

Say You'll Remember Me

Abby Jimenez · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 712,064 ratings
shares: illness, witty, romantic, romance · easy read, warm

Veterinarian Xavier Rush and social media manager Samantha Diaz fall hard for each other in Minneapolis, but Samantha is about to move two thousand miles away to California to care for her mother, who has early-onset dementia.

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 645,762 ratings
shares: young adult, romantic, romance · easy read, wrenching

Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of their Indiana high school's bell tower, and a class project to explore the wonders of their state draws them together as each struggles with what brought them there.

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively · 1987 · UK 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 20,745 ratings
shares: dying, heartbreak, romantic, romance · wrenching, romance-driven

Claudia Hampton, a popular historian dying in a London hospital, decides to write a history of the world and of herself, and comes back to her wartime love affair in Egypt.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 1,210,592 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
shares: adolescent, young adult, romantic, coming of age · easy read, intimate

Every summer Belly goes with her mother and brother to the beach house of her mother's best friend and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and the summer she turns sixteen, everything between them changes.

Good Material

Dolly Alderton · 2023 · UK 94% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 288,868 ratings
shares: heartbreak, witty, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby · 1995 · UK 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 220,389 ratings
shares: heartbreak, witty, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, Rob Fleming, a thirty-five-year-old who runs a failing record shop in north London, ranks his all-time top five breakups and goes back to find out what went wrong with each one.

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell · 2012 · US 93% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 1,285,397 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, romantic, coming of age · easy read, wrenching

In Omaha in 1986, Eleanor, the new girl with wild red hair and a hard home life, ends up sharing a school bus seat with Park, a quiet half-Korean boy, and over comics and mixtapes they fall slowly in love.

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon · 2015 · US 93% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 692,975 ratings
shares: illness, young adult, romantic · easy read, intimate

Madeline Whittier is allergic to the world and has not left her sealed house in seventeen years, until Olly moves in next door, dressed in black, and starts talking to her through the window.

Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024 · US 93% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 1,461,867 ratings
shares: heartbreak, witty, romantic, romance · easy read, romance-driven

When her fiancé leaves her for his best friend, children's librarian Daphne Vincent ends up sharing an apartment in a Michigan lake town with Miles, the jilted ex of that best friend, and the two start posting photos that suggest they are dating.

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams · 2019 · UK 93% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 160,693 ratings
shares: heartbreak, witty · easy read, intimate

Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British journalist in London, comes apart after her white boyfriend asks for a break, making one bad choice after another while her friends and family try to keep up.