What to read after “The Sun Is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.
On the day they both receive a call saying they will die within twenty-four hours, Mateo and Rufus meet through an app for people facing their last day. The two teenagers spend it together, trying to live a lifetime in the time they have left.
Fallon meets Ben at a restaurant on November 9, the day before she moves to New York. They spend the day together and agree to meet on the same date every year, building a connection through brief encounters while their separate lives keep pulling them apart.
Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard student, and Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued Radcliffe student from a different background, meet and marry against his father's wishes. Their happiness is tested by illness and by the class divide they thought love could overcome.
While photographing covered bridges in Iowa, Robert Kincaid asks a farmer's wife, Francesca Johnson, for directions. With her family away for a few days, the two begin an affair that becomes the defining love of her life and forces her to weigh passion against duty.
Hazel Grace, a teenager with terminal cancer, meets Augustus Waters at a support group. Their cautious romance grows through shared wit and a planned trip to Amsterdam, while both confront what they can and cannot control.
Abby Abernathy arrives at college determined to avoid bad boys, but a bet lands her living in Travis Maddox's apartment. Their instant attraction turns into a volatile friendship and then something more, as Abby tries to keep her past and her feelings under control.
In the small Southern town of Gatlin, Ethan Wate dreams of a girl before Lena Duchannes arrives at his school. They fall for each other at once and uncover her family's magic and a curse that will decide her future on her sixteenth birthday.
Robert Jordan, an American volunteer, joins a band of Republican guerrillas in the Spanish mountains to blow up a bridge. Over a few days he falls for Maria, a young woman scarred by war, and weighs duty, love and the near certainty that the mission will cost him his life.
Lara Jean keeps private love letters to the boys she has liked, never meaning to send them. When the letters are mailed, she pretends to date one of the recipients to save face, and the game begins to feel real.
In a world where love is treated as a disease, Lena counts down the days to the cure that will keep her safe. Weeks before her treatment she falls in love, and must choose between the orderly life promised to her and the risk of feeling.
Eleanor is the new girl on the bus, with mismatched clothes and a chaotic home life; Park is the quiet boy who lets her sit beside him. Their friendship grows through shared comics and mix tapes into a cautious first love, threatened by her abusive stepfather.
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
Abducted human women crash-land on a frozen alien planet. Georgie sets out for help and meets Vektal, a blue horned alien who says she is his mate and that his chest purrs in her presence. He will help her people survive, but the planet's harsh rules bind them together.
Blue has grown up in a house of psychics and is warned she will cause her true love's death. Drawn into the search for a lost Welsh king with a group of boys from a prestigious school, she finds her life tangled with theirs and with their dangerous families.
Nora Grey keeps her head down until her biology partner, the aloof Patch, starts appearing wherever she goes. He knows too much, says too little, and seems to want her for reasons he will not name. Falling for him means choosing a side in a fallen angel's ancient struggle.
In Werther's letters, a sensitive young artist arrives in a German town and quickly falls for Lotte, an engaging woman already promised to another man. His infatuation grows into obsession as he tries to reconcile his feelings with the life she has chosen.
In Verona, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet at a party and fall for each other before they learn that their families are sworn enemies. They marry in secret and try to escape the feud, but a chain of misunderstandings and violence drives them toward a tragic end.
Japanese American teenager Izumi Tanaka has never felt she belongs. Then she learns that her father, whom she has never met, is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi travels to Tokyo to meet her royal family, where a strict bodyguard and endless protocol complicate her new life.
Grace has watched a yellow-eyed wolf in the woods behind her house for years. When a wounded boy named Sam appears at her door, she learns that the wolves of Mercy Falls are people in winter and that Sam will soon lose his human form for good. Their romance grows as the cold closes in.
Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is keeping two secrets: he is gay, and he is falling for an anonymous classmate online. When someone discovers his emails and threatens to expose him, Simon has to navigate friendships, family, and first love while trying to find out who Blue really is.
Karou studies art in Prague and fills her sketchbooks with monsters, the same strange creatures who raised her. Running errands for her guardian, she does not know she stands between two warring peoples. When an angel named Akiva scorches the doors she travels through, her hidden life begins to fall apart.
Cath starts college separated from her twin sister for the first time and takes refuge in writing fan fiction. Between a new roommate, a classmate who keeps showing up, and her father's struggles, she slowly learns to live beyond her stories.
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
In a society where the Officials choose who you love, Cassia is matched with her best friend, until a mistake shows her another face. Torn between two futures, she begins to question the system that decides everything for her.
What should I read after “The Sun Is Also a Star”?
Start with “They Both Die at the End”, “November 9”, “Love Story”: they are the closest to “The Sun Is Also a Star” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “The Sun Is Also a Star” these are Insta-Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, Coming of Age), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “They Both Die at the End”, “November 9”, “The Fault in Our Stars”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
