Read-alikes and related books

Books like Crying Laughing

24 titles for readers of Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin, selected for shared themes: New Experience, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Humorous, and Young Adult Fiction.

Top related books to Crying Laughing

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Sorry for Your Loss

Jessie Ann Foley

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous

We All Looked Up

Tommy Wallach

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

If I Stay

Gayle Forman

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

The Hawthorne Legacy

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

The Stepping Off Place

Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

Denton Little’s Still Not Dead

Lance Rubin

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

Sublime

Christina Lauren

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

The Meaning of Birds

Jaye Robin Brown

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#10

They Both Die at the End 2-Book Hardcover Box Set The First to Die at the End, They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#11

Meet Me in the Middle

Alex Light

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#12

The Girl Death Left Behind

Lurlene McDaniel

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#13

A Year to the Day

Robin Benway

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#14

The Alex Crow

Andrew Anselmo Smith

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#15

The Life As We Knew It 4-Book Collection

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#16

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#17

Love and Other Wicked Things

Philline Harms

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#18

The Final Gambit

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Themes: New Experience • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

#19

My Heart and Other Breakables How I Lost My Mom, Found My Dad, and Made Friends with Catastrophe

Alex Barclay

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

#20

Love Off-Limits

Whitney Lyles

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

#21

Spontaneous

Aaron Starmer

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

#22

100 Days of Cake

Shari Goldhagen

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

#23

Wren Martin Ruins It All

Amanda DeWitt

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

#24

Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

Brian Yansky

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Humorous • Young Adult Fiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of New Experience, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Humorous — the same threads that run through Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin. Among the authors featured: Jessie Ann Foley, Tommy Wallach, Gayle Forman, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and others.