Books like “The Hate U Give”

What to read after “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
Under the Martial Empire, Laia's brother is arrested as a traitor, so she goes undercover as a slave in a brutal military academy to spy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a reluctant soldier whose future is bound to the regime she works against.
2
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
Mare lives in a world split by blood: silver elites with powers and powerless reds. When a dangerous ability of her own is exposed, the royal family hides her in their palace, where she becomes a pawn in two secret wars.
3
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999
Shared in the plot: speak, police, school
- Coming of Age
Melinda begins high school as an outcast after calling the police at a summer party, and barely speaks. Through art class and small moments she slowly confronts what happened to her that night and finds the words to name it.
4
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
After a disease kills most American children, the survivors develop dangerous powers and are locked in government camps. Sixteen-year-old Ruby escapes and joins a group of runaways searching for a safe haven, while learning the cost of her own abilities.
5
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld · 2005
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
In a future where everyone turns pretty at sixteen through surgery, fifteen-year-old Tally longs for the operation. When her friend runs away instead, Tally is sent to find her, and learns what the surgery and the society that demands it really cost.
6
Divergent
Veronica Roth · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
In a city divided into five factions, Beatrice Prior learns she does not belong to any of them. Choosing the warrior Dauntless, she hides her divergence while uncovering a plot that threatens everyone, and finds herself drawn to an instructor named Four.
7
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Shared in the plot: school, friend
- Coming of Age
Miles Halter leaves his quiet Florida home for a boarding school in Alabama, drawn by the last words of famous people. There he joins a tight circle of friends, falls for the reckless Alaska Young, and is forced to reckon with loss and guilt.
8
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Courtroom Drama” and “Coming of Age”
- Courtroom Drama
- Coming of Age
Abandoned by her family as a child, Kya grows up alone in a North Carolina marsh, shunned by the nearby town as the Marsh Girl. She teaches herself to survive on the land and inches toward love, until a local man is found dead and she becomes the chief suspect.
9
The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green · 1878
Similar plot moves: “Courtroom Drama”
- Courtroom Drama
When a retired merchant is shot in the library of his locked Manhattan mansion, no one could have left before the body was found. Detective Ebenezer Gryce and a young lawyer weigh the two nieces, the servants and a missing will in one of the first American detective novels.
10
The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion”
- Rebellion
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
11
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 1999
Same genre: “Young adult contemporary”
- Coming of Age
Through letters to a stranger, shy teenager Charlie describes his first year of high school. He is taken in by a group of older friends who introduce him to music, love and heartbreak, even as he struggles with grief and memories he cannot fully face.
12
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Rebellion” and “Coming of Age”
- Rebellion
- Coming of Age
In Panem, each district must send two teenagers to fight to the death on television. When Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her sister's place, she turns the Games into something the Capitol cannot fully control.