Books like How It Feels to Float

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox reads as poignant, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

Shares the comingofage thread

70% genome match

Saving Francesca

Melina Marchetta · 2004

Shares the comingofage thread

82% genome match

I Fell in Love with Hope

Lancali · 2022

Shares the comingofage thread

74% genome match

We are okay

Nina LaCour · 2017

Shares the comingofage thread

77% genome match

Repossessed

A. M. Jenkins · 2007

Shares the comingofage thread

74% genome match

The rest of us just live here

Patrick Ness · 2001

Shares the comingofage thread

73% genome match

The five stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson · 2015

Shares the comingofage thread

75% genome match

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Shares the comingofage thread

72% genome match

The carnival at Bray

Jessie Ann Foley · 2014

Shares the comingofage thread

75% genome match

Looking at the stars

Jo Cotterill · 2014

Shares the comingofage thread

76% genome match

Zac and Mia

A. J. Betts · 2013

Shares the comingofage thread

73% genome match

Radio Silence

Alice Oseman

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match