The reader shares the students’ sense of foreboding and willful denial, which doesn’t make it any easier to accept the truth as it seeps out.

Set in an altered England of the recent past, the story unfurls in a masterful gradual reveal as the characters come to understand who they are and the real purpose of the boarding school they attend. The story is whimsical without being twee, and offers an honest and empathetic portrait of grappling with faith and sweetly obsessive teenage love.Īdapted into a pretty good movie, the book is better because of the way the reader slowly begins to understand the absolute impossibility of hope for our lovers. One of the best features of the book is the gorgeously rendered Midwest winters, and the comfort Raina and Craig find in each other. A largely autobiographical story of first love, Craig meets his dream girl, Raina, at a Wisconsin Bible camp, but it transcends the dangers of a Bible camp meet-cute. Related Storiesīlankets is on many a list of must-read graphic novels and a great choice if you’ve never dabbled in the medium. Toro must make a choice between the past (Naoko and their mutual sorrow for their lost friend) and the future. Or when you read a book about lovestruck teenagers with cancer.Ī tale of one boy and two girls: Toru, a good student who has the occasional one-night stand but feels sort of bad about it his dead best friend’s girlfriend, Naoko, quiet, lovely, haunted, and damaged and a lively co-ed, Midori, who drinks in the afternoon and wears short skirts to visit her father in the hospital. Sort of like when you rewatch certain movies and think, maybe this time things will turn out different. The title basically gives young Skippy a terminal diagnosis, but you keep hoping against reason that somehow the course of events will be altered and our unlikely hero will miraculously survive. Murray’s novel is set in an Irish boys’ school, and is one of the most accurate and unsentimental portraits of the complete agony and surprising beauty of adolescence I have ever encountered. Grab a box of tissues and get ready to pick your favorite meet-cute: cancer group? Bible camp? Middle school? Being held prisoner in space? All seven of these books here have the same elements as Green’s story: a star-crossed romance a shared obsession the ability to make you cry at the end (and maybe the middle, and maybe the beginning) and crossover appeal. And now you’re looking for more fucked-up and/or doomed romances to fuel your insatiable TFIOS fire, and we are here for you. You’ve read John Green’s YA crossover, mega-best-seller/tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars, and you’ve read Rainbow Rowell, David Levithan, and all the books on the many “read this YA if you liked this YA” lists out there.

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