Looking for Alaska
John Green
A boy leaves for boarding school and falls for a brilliant, reckless girl, in the same author's debut, with heavy themes and mature content.
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Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
A 16-year-old whose spiraling thoughts make daily life hard chases a missing billionaire, in the same author's later novel about anxiety.
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Two misfit 16-year-olds fall in love over one school year in the 1980s, in a tender story with bullying and trouble at home.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews
A high school boy is nudged into befriending a classmate with leukemia, in a sharply funny, irreverent story with crude language.
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
Two teens who meet on the ledge of a school bell tower team up on a project to explore their state, in a moving novel about suicide and mental illness.
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
A young woman takes a job caring for a bitter, paralyzed former businessman, in an adult romance about disability and hard choices.
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
A teen who is allergic to the outside world falls for the new boy next door, in a quick read told partly through diary entries and sketches.
How to choose
These books share the humor and heartbreak of The Fault in Our Stars, but they differ in weight. For more John Green, Looking for Alaska is the closest in spirit, and Turtles All the Way Down is a quieter story about anxiety. Eleanor & Park is the most tender love story of the group, though it includes bullying and abuse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is the funniest, and Everything, Everything is the lightest and quickest. All the Bright Places is the heaviest and deals with suicide, so check content notes before you start. Me Before You is for adults and takes up disability and end-of-life choices. Keep tissues nearby for several of them.
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