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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,043,686 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,037,832 ratings — published 2007
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,834,996 ratings — published 2016
Black Girl Unlimited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,724 ratings — published 2020
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,884,918 ratings — published 2012
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.11 — 644,065 ratings — published 2015
Under Rose-Tainted Skies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,274 ratings — published 2016
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 254,653 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 644,916 ratings — published 1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,073,971 ratings — published 1999
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,486 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,437,614 ratings — published 2017
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,656 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,282,350 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,787,200 ratings — published 2005
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 363,089 ratings — published 2014
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,336 ratings — published 2016
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.09 — 451,504 ratings — published 2020
Four Three Two One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,171 ratings — published 2018
One True Loves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 790,238 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Project (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,589 ratings — published 2017
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,796 ratings — published 2019
Eliza and Her Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 65,670 ratings — published 2017
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.87 — 661,088 ratings — published 2017
Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.37 — 69,690 ratings — published 2021
Every Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 134,463 ratings — published 2015
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 63,596 ratings — published 2015
I Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.73 — 69,140 ratings — published 2015
Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,329 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,847,769 ratings — published 2012
100 Days of Sunlight (100 Days of Sunlight, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,328 ratings — published 2019
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,316 ratings — published 2011
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,613 ratings — published 2018
When Elephants Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,208 ratings — published 2018
Starfish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,735 ratings — published 2017
What Kind of Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,300 ratings — published 2020
Imagine Us Happy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.68 — 517 ratings — published 2018
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.67 — 156,639 ratings — published 2016
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,978 ratings — published 2009
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.93 — 288,575 ratings — published 2016
Finding Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 85,840 ratings — published 2015
The Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,157,688 ratings — published 2024
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,085 ratings — published 2020
The Names They Gave Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,077 ratings — published 2017
He Should Have Told the Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,193 ratings — published 2023
Fallout (Crank, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,587 ratings — published 2010
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.29 — 75,814 ratings — published 2007
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.16 — 201,407 ratings — published 2016
Sweet Dandelion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,394 ratings — published 2020
Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.60 — 93,395 ratings — published 2020