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Books like Revolution
A haunting, dual-timeline journey where the raw grief of the present finds solace and transformation in the desperate echoes of the past. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Revolution.
- atmospheric
- haunting
- sorrowful
- emotionally charged
- 01
The sky is everywhere
Jandy Nelson
A vibrant, messy, and deeply poetic exploration of how a heart can simultaneously break from grief and burst with new love.
- 02
Hold Still
Nina LaCour
A tender, aching exploration of the quiet spaces left behind by loss, and the slow, messy art of learning to breathe again.
- 03
A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly
A beautifully written, atmospheric coming-of-age tale where a young woman's love of words becomes her only escape from a life of rural hardship.
- 04
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
A bittersweet, imaginative exploration of what it means to live, even after life has ended.
- 05
The truth about forever
Sarah Dessen
A sun-soaked summer of chaotic catering gigs, found family, and learning to let go of the need to be perfect.
- 06
This World We Live In
Susan Beth Pfeffer
A claustrophobic, deeply intimate look at the quiet, devastating realities of surviving the end of the world.
- 07
Hate list
Jennifer Brown · 2009
A raw, unflinching exploration of guilt, grief, and the agonizingly slow journey toward self-forgiveness in the wake of unimaginable tragedy.
- 08
Love letters to the dead
Ava Dellaira
A raw, epistolary journey through the messy, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful landscape of teenage grief.
- 09
Love and Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch
A sun-drenched Italian escapade that wraps the bittersweet ache of grief in the sweet comfort of first love and newfound family.
- 10
Letters to the lost
Brigid Kemmerer
An intimate, emotionally charged exploration of how two broken people can help piece each other back together through the safety of shared words.
- 11
Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson
A gripping, sensory plunge into a city collapsing under an invisible threat, where a young girl must forge her own survival.
- 12
Let Me Tell You How I Died
Sinclair Smith
A creepy, nostalgic descent into a dead girl's mind through the pages of a cursed diary.
