Books like I Fell in Love with Hope

I Fell in Love with Hope by Lancali reads as melancholic, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera · 2017

Shares the comingofage + grief thread

83% genome match

Who I Was with Her

Nita Tyndall · 2020

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Zac and Mia

A. J. Betts · 2013

Shares the comingofage thread

87% genome match

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews · 2012

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

69% genome match

We are okay

Nina LaCour · 2017

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2005

Shares the comingofage + grief thread

69% genome match

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012

Shares the comingofage thread

75% genome match

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

Shares the comingofage thread

72% genome match

The five stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson · 2015

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

69% genome match

How It Feels to Float

Helena Fox · 2019

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

You've Reached Sam

Dustin Thao · 2021

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

The carnival at Bray

Jessie Ann Foley · 2014

Shares the comingofage thread

72% genome match