Books like Thirteen Reasons Why
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.
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Nineteen Minutes
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.
One of Us Is Lying
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.
Speak
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.
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.
Paper Towns
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.
Dear Martin
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.
Before I Fall
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.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Ace of Spades
At Niveus Academy, an elite private school, the only two Black students, Devon, a quiet musician, and Chiamaka, the ambitious head girl, are targeted by an anonymous texter called Aces who begins exposing their secrets to the whole school.
Heaven
Two 14-year-olds in a Tokyo school, both targets of relentless bullying, find each other and argue about whether suffering has meaning.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.