Books like Smoke

Smoke by Ellen Hopkins reads as dark, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Crank

Ellen Hopkins · 2001

Both explore addiction & identity

83% genome match

You'd Be Home Now

Kathleen Glasgow · 2021

Both explore addiction & trauma

57% genome match

This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp · 2016

Both explore trauma & survival

58% genome match

The chosen one

Carol Lynch Williams · 2009

Both explore abuse & survival

60% genome match

All the Truth That's in Me

Julie Berry · 2013

Both explore trauma & survival

61% genome match

Witch Child

Celia Rees · 2000

Both explore survival & identity

59% genome match

The Way I Used To Be

Amber Smith · 2016

Both explore trauma & identity

54% genome match

What girls are made of

Elana K. Arnold · 2017

Both explore abuse

59% genome match

Girls like us

Gail Giles · 2014

Both explore trauma & survival

58% genome match

Pearl in the Mist

V.C. Andrews · 1994

Both explore family secrets & abuse

71% genome match

So much to tell you

John Marsden · 1999

Both explore trauma & family secrets

57% genome match

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999

Both explore trauma & identity

54% genome match