YA Breakup Books for Fans of 'Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between'

by Jennifer E. Smith

High school sweethearts Clare and Aidan spend the night before they leave for college reminiscing about their relationship and deciding whether they should stay together or break up.

by Nicola Yoon

Experiencing visions of heartbreak and trying to understand why this is happening, Evie signs up for lessons at a dance studio, where she falls for her dance partner, forcing her to question all she thought she knew about life and love.

by Laura Taylor Namey

Seventeen-year-old Lila Reyes, furious when her parents send her to the English countryside to recover from grief and heartbreak, unexpectedly falls in love with a teashop clerk—and England, itself.

by Katie Heaney

Dumped by her best friend and girlfriend a month before their senior year, a heartbroken Quinn struggles to move on with a new crush when she is unable to completely forget her ex.

by Adi Alsaid

Dumped by her boyfriend the summer after senior year, popular love-and-dating columnist Lu Charles can't seem to write another word. But when she overhears another college-bound couple breaking up before deciding to stay together for one final summer she is inspired. Could Cal and Iris be the key to solving her writer's block?

by Mary McCoy

Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job at a local coffee shop and her podcast, Artists in Love, which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent—until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation. Searching for a new purpose, Lee recruits her old friend Max and new friend Risa to produce a podcast called Objects of Destruction, where they investigate whether love actually exists at all.

by Adib Khorram

On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound, and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye.

by Kristina Forest

Alternating between the past and present, a love story unfolds from Zyla's and Kai's perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up... Or did they?

by Marcelle Karp

With her best friend Macy still obsessing over her hookup with Max Cooper the summer before, Jazz begins to see that she knows only one side of the story and must help Macy before something terrible happens.

by John Green

Always being dumped by girls named Katherine, Colin Singleton, a washed-up child prodigy with a Judge-Judy obsessed best friend, embarks on a quest to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will impact all of his future relationships and change his life.

by Olivia Abtahi

Heartbroken and humiliated when she is dumped just days into her first relationship, Iranian American Parvin Mohammadi struggles to remain true to herself while attempting to prove to a school heartthrob that she is rom-com girlfriend material.

by Meg Leder

In this ode to all the things we gain and lose and gain again, seventeen-year-old Penelope Marx curates her own mini-museum to deal with all the heartbreaks of love, friendship, and growing up.

by Daniel Handler; art by Maira Kalman

Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

by Rahul Kanakia

Hooking up with his friend Dave wasn't part of Nandan's plan for junior year—especially because Nandan has never been into guys. Still, he's willing to give the relationship a shot. But the more his anxiety grows about what his sexuality means, the more he wonders whether he can just take it all back. Is breaking up with Dave—the only person who’s ever really gotten him—worth feeling "normal" again?

by Don Zolidis

Amy and Craig never should've gotten together. Craig is an awkward Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school. Yet somehow they did—until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got back together with him again. Over and over and over.