Books like This One Summer

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech · 2000

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Skim

Mariko Tamaki · 2008

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

78% genome match

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai · 2005

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

78% genome match

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff · 2004

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

75% genome match

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968

Shares the comingofage + escape thread

69% genome match

How to breathe underwater

Julie Orringer · 2003

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

77% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid · 1983

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

73% genome match

I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip

John Donovan · 1969

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

72% genome match

When my name was Keoko

Linda Sue Park · 2002

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 2007

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Tex

S. E. Hinton · 1979

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match