Books like A sin such as this

A sin such as this by Ellen Hopkins reads as gritty, raw. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

You'd Be Home Now

Kathleen Glasgow · 2021

Both explore addiction & trauma

75% genome match

Tricks

Ellen Hopkins · 2009

Both explore addiction & abuse

72% genome match

Afterward

Jennifer Mathieu · 2016

Both explore trauma

64% genome match

Lottery

Beth Goobie · 2002

Both explore trauma

62% genome match

In Search of April Raintree

Beatrice Mosionier · 1983

Both explore trauma

57% genome match

The Way I Used To Be

Amber Smith · 2016

Both explore trauma

64% genome match

Traplines

Eden Robinson · 1996

Both explore family dysfunction

66% genome match

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999

Both explore trauma

64% genome match

The Rules of Survival

Nancy Werlin · 2006

Both explore survival & trauma

65% genome match

Girls like us

Gail Giles · 2014

Both explore trauma & survival

64% genome match

Somewhere in the Darkness

Walter Dean Myers · 1992

Both explore redemption

48% genome match

Getting out

Marsha Norman · 1979

Both explore trauma & redemption

69% genome match