Read-alikes and related books

Books like Hungry Ghost

What to read after Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying: 24 titles sharing themes of Eating Disorders & Body Image, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coming of Age, and Young Adult Fiction, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Hungry Ghost

A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of Hungry Ghost.

The Calculus of Change

Jessie Hilb

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age

Faith Taking Flight

Julie Murphy

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

Age 16

Rosena Fung

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

There You’ll Find Me

Jenny B. Jones

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Young Adult Fiction

From the Roots Up

Tasha Spillett

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

Say No to the Dress

Keren David

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

Phoebe’s Diary

Phoebe Wahl

Themes: Eating Disorders & Body Image • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

Summer of Salt

Katrina Leno

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#10

Get Even TV Tie-In Edition

Gretchen McNeil

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#11

Not about a Boy

Myah Hollis

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#12

The Blonde Dies First

Joelle Wellington

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#13

Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#14

Thirty to Sixty Days A Novel

Alikay Wood

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#15

Meet Me in the Middle

Alex Light

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#16

The Final Gambit

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#17

All the Things We Do in the Dark

Saundra Mitchell

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#18

The Library of Shadows

Rachel Moore

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#19

The Dare

Hannah Jayne

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#20

Becoming a Queen

Dan Clay

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#21

Powerful

Lauren Roberts

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#22

The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#23

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life A Novel

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

#24

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

Chelsea Sedoti

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Coming of Age • Young Adult Fiction

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying. Connected by Eating Disorders & Body Image, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coming of Age. Authors featured include Jessie Hilb, Julie Murphy, Rosena Fung, Jenny B. Jones, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.