Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love

10 best books like Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love (Andrea N. Richesin): Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, Sisterhood Everlasting, We the Animals, The Grief of Others, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, A Small Hotel, This Beautiful Life, Once Upon a River, The Beginners, American Salvage

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Author	Ann Brashares
ISBN	0385729367

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer.
Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again.
Carmen: Falls under the...

Sisterhood Everlasting

Author	Ann Brashares
ISBN	0385521227

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood...

We the Animals

Author	Justin Torres
ISBN	0547576722

An exquisite, blistering debut novel.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...

The Grief of Others

Author	Leah Hager Cohen
ISBN	1594488053

Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous...

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

Author	Priscilla Warner
ISBN	1439181071

Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...

A Small Hotel

Author	Robert Olen Butler
ISBN	0802119875

A Small Hotel is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and redemption. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, the novel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
The book begins on the day...

This Beautiful Life

Author	Helen Schulman
ISBN	0062024388

When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately,...

Once Upon a River

Author	Bonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN	0393079899

Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.

After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her...

The Beginners

Author	Rebecca Wolff
ISBN	1594487995

The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town.

Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence...

American Salvage

Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell

“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...

Next to Love

Author	Ellen Feldman
ISBN	0812992717

Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.

Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives...