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Books like Extraordinary Means

12 books with a reading profile close to Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider. Practical, inward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

Boy Meets Boy

by David Levithan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Paul Ames lives in a fictional town where being gay is unremarkable, the high school homecoming queen is a star quarterback named Infinite Darlene, and the Boy Scouts are inclusive.
2

Twenty Boy Summer

by Sarah Ockler

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Anna and her best friend Frankie, both fifteen, spend a summer with Frankie's family at a beach house in California.
3

What Happened to Goodbye

by Sarah Dessen

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Following her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean Sweet travels through four different towns in two years, utilizing each relocation to adopt a completely new identity.
4

Lock and Key

by Sarah Dessen

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Ruby Cooper has spent years living in a state of self-reliance, hiding the fact that her mother abandoned her in their dilapidated rental house.
5

The Girl He Used to Know

by Tracey Garvis Graves

Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Annika Rose, a quiet, brilliant student with undiagnosed autism, meets Wes Winters at the University of Illinois chess club in the early 1990s.
6

Making Faces

by Amy Harmon

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Set in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story follows Fern Taylor, a quiet girl who grows up in the shadow of Ambrose Young, the local wrestling star.
7

Frankly in Love

by David Yoon

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

Frank Li is a Korean American high school senior living in California, navigating the strict expectations of his traditional immigrant parents.
8

The Geography of You and Me

by Jennifer E. Smith

Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

The story begins in a stalled elevator during a New York City blackout, where Lucy, a teenager living in a luxury penthouse, meets Owen, the son of the building’s superintendent.
9

Maybe in Another Life

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative

At twenty-nine, Hannah Martin moves back to Los Angeles after years of transient living, staying with her best friend Gabby.
10

The Henna Wars

by Adiba Jaigirdar

Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Nishat is a teenage girl living in Dublin who decides to come out to her Bengali parents, only to be met with a silent refusal to acknowledge her identity.
11

Summer of '69

by Elin Hilderbrand

Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative

The narrative follows the Foley and Levin families during a summer of significant social upheaval on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
12

Nana, Vol. 1

by Ai Yazawa

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Two young women, both named Nana, travel on the same train to Tokyo at age twenty.

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