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I'm really enjoying 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky - can anyone recommend similar books?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Melvin Burgess - Smack (Drugs and crappy parents and teens trying to make it on their own.)

    Brian James - Pure Sunshine (Also drugs. I don't remember much about this one other than I really liked the vibe I got from it, kinda like perks.)

    Ellen Wittlinger - Hard Love (Awkward loner guy meets completely unattainable girl. Really a good story.)

    Anonymous - Go Ask Alice (This one is a classic so to speak. Pretty good one about drugs and how they can take a person down.)

    Rob Thomas - Rats Saw God (Eccentric main character who is emotionally damaged.)

    Abram Shalom Himelstein-Tales of A Punk Rock Nothing has "everything you could want out of a novel: a chase scene, a sex scene, plus angst-ridden critiques of American society"

    Source(s): I read, plus Perks of Being a Wallflower is awesome.
  • 10 years ago

    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld

    Before I Die by Jenny Downham

    Generation X - Douglas Coupland

    It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

  • Kelley
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    Looking for Alaska by John Green (and most of his other books)

    Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    A Separate Peace by John Knowles

    Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

    We Were Here by Matt de la Peña

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