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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,037,361 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,165 ratings — published 2007
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,792,074 ratings — published 2016
Black Girl Unlimited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,719 ratings — published 2020
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,850,452 ratings — published 2012
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.11 — 641,212 ratings — published 2015
Under Rose-Tainted Skies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,251 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 — 250,048 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.05 — 641,970 ratings — published 1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,057,238 ratings — published 1999
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,381 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,360,253 ratings — published 2017
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.24 — 142,527 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,277,554 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,779,124 ratings — published 2005
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 362,052 ratings — published 2014
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,271 ratings — published 2016
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.09 — 447,105 ratings — published 2020
Four Three Two One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,173 ratings — published 2018
One True Loves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 778,456 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Project (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,543 ratings — published 2017
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,588 ratings — published 2019
Eliza and Her Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 65,592 ratings — published 2017
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.87 — 657,272 ratings — published 2017
Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.37 — 69,074 ratings — published 2021
Every Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 133,374 ratings — published 2015
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 63,463 ratings — published 2015
I Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.73 — 69,039 ratings — published 2015
Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,098 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,838,163 ratings — published 2012
100 Days of Sunlight (100 Days of Sunlight, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,136 ratings — published 2019
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,846 ratings — published 2011
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,379 ratings — published 2018
When Elephants Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,207 ratings — published 2018
Starfish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,714 ratings — published 2017
What Kind of Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,281 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 — 155,792 ratings — published 2016
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,821 ratings — published 2009
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.93 — 284,413 ratings — published 2016
Finding Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 85,608 ratings — published 2015
The Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,123,584 ratings — published 2024
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,068 ratings — published 2020
The Names They Gave Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,070 ratings — published 2017
He Should Have Told the Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,072 ratings — published 2023
Fallout (Crank, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,460 ratings — published 2010
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.29 — 75,569 ratings — published 2007
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,435 ratings — published 2016
Sweet Dandelion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,312 ratings — published 2020
Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-hitting-contemporary)
avg rating 3.60 — 92,688 ratings — published 2020