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Books like Daddy’s Waves

Explore 24 books like Daddy’s Waves by Chandra Ghosh Ippen — a handpicked selection united by Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Depression & Mental Illness, Psychological, and Social Themes.

Top related books to Daddy’s Waves

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Daddy’s Waves.

Mama’s Waves

Chandra Ghosh Ippen

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

Shark Teeth

Sherri Winston

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

The Great Jeff

Tony Abbott

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

Perfect

Ellen Hopkins

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

The Way I Am Now

Amber Smith

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

Go Away Bad Mood

Nayera Salam

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Psychological • Social Themes

Asylum

Madeleine Roux

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Psychological • Social Themes

Addicted

Krys Fenner

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Psychological • Social Themes

Family of Liars The Prequel to We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Psychological • Social Themes

#10

Secrets Revealed YOUR Story

Terrence Lee Talley

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness

#11

A Beginner’s Guide to the Four Psychic Clair Senses Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Claircognizance, Clairsentience

Kevin Hunter

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness

#12

Having a Drug Addiction Stories from Survivors

Sarah Eason

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness

#13

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

Kelly Jensen

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Depression & Mental Illness

#14

The Means That Make Us Strangers

Christine Kindberg

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#15

Jane Eyre Promo — Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#16

Heartstopper

Alice Oseman

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#17

Shadow State

Elyse Brayden

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#18

Saving Francesca

Melina Marchetta

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#19

Lucky Star

Cathy Cassidy

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Social Themes

#20

The Museum of Intangible Things

Wendy Wunder

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#21

Junk

Melvin Burgess

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Social Themes

#22

Rooftop

Paul Volponi

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Social Themes

#23

The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Social Themes

#24

That was Then, this is Now

S. E. Hinton

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Social Themes

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Depression & Mental Illness, Psychological — the same threads that run through Daddy’s Waves by Chandra Ghosh Ippen. Among the authors featured: Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Sherri Winston, Tony Abbott, Ellen Hopkins, and others.