I hope you’re having a great day. Today I bring you some recommendations from my favorite stand-alone books, there are a lot of them so I’ll be making these recommendations every Friday for the next weeks showing only 5 books in each post to make it more orderly and cause I want to recommend to you all my favs stand-alones for you to get to know them and maybe even you want to add them to your TBR!, that would make me super happy. Besides, who doesn’t want a good stand-alone sometimes, right?.
You can find my previous Stand-Alone Recs here:
I hope you enjoy my recommendations and as I always say, I would love to know yours. I have 4 more recommendation post if you’re interested:
Fast-Paced Contemporary Books Recs
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The first day of senior year:
Everything is about to change. Until this moment, Sal has always been certain of his place with his adoptive gay father and their loving Mexican-American family. But now his own history unexpectedly haunts him, and life-altering events force him and his best friend, Samantha, to confront issues of faith, loss, and grief.
Suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and discovering that he no longer knows who he really is—but if Sal’s not who he thought he was, who is he?
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
If Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing separating Skylar from art school is three months of summer…until Skylar’s mother loses her job, and Skylar realizes her dreams may be slipping out of reach.
Josh had a different escape route: the Marines. But after losing his leg in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of the cocksure boy he used to be.
What brings Skylar and Josh together is working at the Paradise—a quirky motel off California’s Highway 99. Despite their differences, their shared isolation turns into an unexpected friendship and, soon, something deeper.
Compelling and ultimately hopeful, this is a powerful examination of love, loss, and resilience.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl’s struggle for justice.
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.
The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But as they are starting their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. The end of high school will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is happy wherever he is thanks to his obsession with the epic book series Bloodfall and the fangirl who may be turning his harsh reality into real-life fantasy. Dill’s only escapes are his music and his secret feelings for Lydia—neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending—one that will rock his life to the core.
Debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the hard realities of growing up in the Bible Belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find one’s true self in the wreckage of the past.
Ahh The Hate U Give is such an impactful book, and I love that it’s on your list! And Everything, Everything is on my TBR already. ❤
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Totally, The Hate U Give is definitely one of those books, everyone should give it a chance at some point 🤗
I think you’ll enjoy Everything, Everything, cause besides being an adorable story it’s also super easy and quick to read 😄
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I love Heartless by Marissa Meyer. All of Morgan Matson’s books. The Breakdown by B.A. Paris. Hunted by Meagan Spooner. Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch. So many!!! I really enjoyed Everything, Everything as well and I’m really looking forward to reading The Hate U Give.
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I’m adding your recs to my TBR! I already had some of them on my list but not all of them, so thank you so much honey 💕
Surely you’ll love The Hate U Give, it’s such a meaningful reading 😊
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Awesome list! I really loved Everything Everything and Serpent King. I really should check out the others!
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Thanks! I’m glad you liked it 😄
I hope you enjoy the other ones if you get to read them 🤗
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What great recommendations, thank you! Everything, Everything sounds really interesting, I added it to my TBR pile. I don’t really read too many stand-alone books, I gravitate towards series a lot.
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Thanks to you!, I’m glad you like it.
I hope you enjoy it once you read it!. Oh I understand, in general I love series as well, but I think a stand-alone once in a while is so necessary 😊 😊
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Just added some to my TBR, great list ❤
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Thank you!. YAY, that makes me so happy 💕
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Glad 😊❤
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The hate u give😍 heard great things about it! Its on my TBR
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Surely you’ll enjoy it a lot once you read it! It’s a reading with a great meaning 💕
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Everything Everything looks like such an amazing book. I plan to read it this summer 🙂 I haven’t watched the movie yet either, but I was just wondering, do you think the movie stayed true to the book?
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I think it’s a perfect reading for the summer so that’s great! I hope you enjoy it 💕
Oh I couldn’t say babe, sorry, I haven’t seen the movie either, I really want to do it soon though! 🤗
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It looks so good! Plus Nick Robinson is in it 😍
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I love, love, love Jeff Zentner and Angie Thomas. Those are some amazing recs!
I feel like a lot of the time there are always series and not necessarily stand alones now. My favourites are My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick, Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman and Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley.
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I’m so glad you like it !, they’re incredible writers without doubts
I have Words in Deep Blue on my TBR since it came out and whenever I see it I think I have to read it and then I completely forget about it lol. I have to do it this year finally 🤗 🤗
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You should really pick it up hahaha
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I have I’ll Meet You There and The Serpent King on my TBR, and I’ve heard really good things lately about them! Hopefully I’ll get to them soon💕.
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Oh surely you’ll enjoy it, they’re both incredible books that I think deserve more recognition 😊
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