Books like The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
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Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes, sixteen and caught in spirals of obsessive thought, is talked by her best friend into hunting for a missing Indianapolis billionaire, whose son she once knew, for the hundred-thousand-dollar reward.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two lonely Mexican-American boys meet at an El Paso swimming pool in 1987 and learn, across two summers, what it is they have been carrying and what the other one is for.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not ready to come out, but when a classmate finds his emails to Blue, an anonymous boy at school he has fallen for, Simon is blackmailed into helping the classmate win over one of his friends.
Funny Boy
Arjie, a Tamil boy growing up in Colombo in the 1970s and 80s, discovers he is gay as the tensions that will become Sri Lanka's civil war tighten around his family.
Roaming
Three college friends meet up for a spring-break week in New York and watch the triangle of their attention bend, crack, and set in a new shape.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
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.
Looking for Alaska
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.
The Outsiders
A kid in a poor Oklahoma gang tells the story of the week the rich kids came for them and a boy he loved died, and the week rearranged what he thought he understood about either side.
Annie on My Mind
Liza Winthrop, a senior at a private school in Brooklyn Heights, meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum, and the friendship that follows becomes a love neither of them has a name for at first.
Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker with a scarred face and a rigid routine begins to come out of herself after she and a scruffy IT guy help an old man who collapses in the street.
They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.