Books like All This Time
All This Time by Mikki Daughtry reads as emotional, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What All This Time is like to read
An emotional YA/new-adult romance about two grieving people finding each other after devastating loss, with a looming sense that another blow is coming. Grief-forward and tear-jerking rather than plot-twisty. Best for: readers who loved Five Feet Apart and want a weepy romance about healing through love.
I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali · 2022
A lyrical, grief-soaked hospital story where terminally ill teens steal moments of joy against the certainty of loss — prose that reaches for the poetic, an ache that never fully lifts even when love returns.
You've Reached Sam
Dustin Thao · 2021
An aching, tear-forward YA grief romance where a magical phone line becomes the vehicle for saying the goodbye Julie never got.
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012
A tender, interior coming-of-age told in short spare chapters and quiet white space, where a lonely boy's friendship slowly cracks him open to family secrets and first love.
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo · 2016
An intimate, emotionally charged YA romance about a trans girl weighing safety against the vulnerability of being fully known.
Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian · 2019
An emotionally layered YA about closeted identity, first love, and chosen family set against the AIDS crisis, told through alternating teen voices navigating secrecy and grief.
Full Disclosure
Camryn Garrett · 2019
Both explore first love
The Voting Booth
Brandy Colbert · 2020
Both explore first love
Who I Was with Her
Nita Tyndall · 2020
Both explore grief & first love
Ghost boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes · 2014
A young Black boy narrates his own death and its aftermath in short, plain-spoken chapters, meeting the ghosts of other slain children in a quietly devastating reckoning with American racial violence.
Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay · 2019
A teen's grief-driven investigation into his cousin's death unfolds as a reckoning with family silence and a country's violent politics, told with earnest, searching first-person immediacy.
Afterward
Jennifer Mathieu · 2016
Both explore healing
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera · 2017
A ticking-clock day-in-the-life told in short alternating chapters as two teens race to actually live before midnight — earnest, tender, and engineered to devastate.
About All This Time — what the genome says
How spicy is All This Time?
Low heat — mostly fade-to-black.
Who is All This Time for?
readers who loved Five Feet Apart and want a weepy romance about healing through love
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