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What to read after Rumble by Ellen Hopkins: 24 titles sharing themes of Novels in Verse, Dating & Relationships, Bullying, and Stories in Verse, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Rumble

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Rumble.

Smoke

Ellen Hopkins

Themes: Novels in Verse • Stories in Verse • Death, Grief, Bereavement

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Novels in Verse • Dating & Relationships • School & Education

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Themes: Novels in Verse • Dating & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Stories in Verse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

The Aurora County All-Stars

Deborah Wiles

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Bullying • Stories in Verse

Saving Zoe A Novel — Alyson Noël

Alyson Noel

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

The Song of Us

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Themes: Dating & Relationships • Stories in Verse • School & Education

Thin Space

Jody Casella

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Erin Entrada Kelly

Themes: Bullying • Stories in Verse • School & Education

#10

Chasing Brooklyn

Lisa Schroeder

Themes: Novels in Verse • Dating & Relationships • Stories in Verse

#11

My Heartbeat

Garret Weyr

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Siblings • School & Education

#12

All We Have Left

Wendy Mills

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#13

This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Bullying • School & Education

#14

Call Me Adnan

Reem Faruqi

Themes: Stories in Verse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#15

My Brother’s Name Is Jessica

John Boyne

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Siblings • School & Education

#16

We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Bullying • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#17

You Don’t Know Me

David Klass

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Bullying • School & Education

#18

Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement • School & Education

#19

Junk Boy

Tony Abbott

Themes: Novels in Verse • Bullying • LGBTQ

#20

To Be Perfectly Honest A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Sonya Sones

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Stories in Verse • Siblings

#21

The Way I Used to Be

Amber Smith

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Bullying • School & Education

#22

The Key to You and Me

Jaye Robin Brown

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • School & Education • LGBTQ

#23

The Meaning of Birds

Jaye Robin Brown

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • School & Education • LGBTQ

#24

The Bubble Wrap Boy

Phil Earle

Themes: Bullying • Death, Grief, Bereavement • School & Education

If Rumble by Ellen Hopkins is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Novels in Verse, Dating & Relationships, Bullying and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Ellen Hopkins, Kacen Callender, Sonya Sones, Kwame Alexander, and others.