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Books like Nine

24 titles for readers of Nine by Zach Hines, selected for shared themes: Peer Pressure, Boys & Men, Dark Fantasy, and Dystopian.

Peer Pressure Boys & Men Dark Fantasy Dystopian Death, Grief, Bereavement Social Topics Young Adult Fiction Family Science Fiction Social Themes Fantasy Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Fiction

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Nine.

Powerless

Lauren Roberts

Themes: Dark Fantasy • Dystopian • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Get Even TV Tie-In Edition

Gretchen McNeil

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

All the Things We Do in the Dark

Saundra Mitchell

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

We Unleash the Merciless Storm

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Themes: Dark Fantasy • Dystopian • Social Topics

The Hummingbird Killer

Finn Longman

Themes: Dystopian • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

Meet Me in the Middle

Alex Light

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

Zac and Mia

A. J. Betts

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

The Dead I Know

Scot Gardner

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

Moth to a Flame

Finn Longman

Themes: Dystopian • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#10

Get Dirty TV Tie-In Edition

Gretchen McNeil

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#11

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#12

Saint Iggy

K. L. Going

Themes: Boys & Men • Social Topics • Young Adult Fiction

#13

Fever

Lauren DeStefano

Themes: Dark Fantasy • Dystopian • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#14

Shadows Cast by Stars

Catherine Knutsson

Themes: Dystopian • Social Topics • Young Adult Fiction

#15

Verify

Joelle Charbonneau

Themes: Dystopian • Social Topics • Young Adult Fiction

#16

Swagger

Carl Deuker

Themes: Peer Pressure • Boys & Men • Social Topics

#17

Yellow Flag

Robert Lipsyte

Themes: Peer Pressure • Boys & Men • Young Adult Fiction

#18

Two Weeks with the Queen

Morris Gleitzman

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#19

Stone

Finbar Hawkins

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#20

The Goddess Inheritance

Aimée Carter

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

#21

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

Themes: Dystopian • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#22

The Giver Quartet

Lois Lowry

Themes: Boys & Men • Dystopian • Young Adult Fiction

#23

The Life As We Knew It 4-Book Collection

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

#24

My Father’s Arms are a Boat

Stein Erik Lunde

Themes: Boys & Men • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Nine by Zach Hines. Connected by Peer Pressure, Boys & Men, Dark Fantasy. Authors featured include Lauren Roberts, Gretchen McNeil, Saundra Mitchell, Tehlor Kay Mejia, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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