Read-alikes and related books

Books like Spin

If you loved Spin by Lamar Giles, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Adolescence & Coming of Age, Biographical, Death, Grief, Bereavement, and Mysteries & Detective Stories.

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Top related books to Spin

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

A Soft Place to Land

Janae Marks

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

Overturned

Lamar Giles

Themes: Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black • People & Places

The Queens of New York

E. L. Shen

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black • People & Places

Chasing Shadows

Swati Avasthi

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

Adele Griffin

Themes: Biographical • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

Unstoppable Octobia May

Sharon G. Flake

Themes: Biographical • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

Ophie’s Ghosts

Justina Ireland

Themes: Biographical • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

On Air with Zoe Washington

Janae Marks

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

#10

The Ever-After Bird

Ann Rinaldi

Themes: Biographical • Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black

#11

I Was Here

Gayle Forman

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#12

Me, the Missing, and the Dead

Jenny Valentine

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories

#13

Don Mclean’s American Pie A Fable

Meteor 17 Books

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Performing Arts

#14

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#15

Before I Let Go

Marieke Nijkamp

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Mysteries & Detective Stories • People & Places

#16

La niña Que les Canta a Las Abejas / the Girl Who Sings to Bees

Chiquis

Themes: Biographical • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#17

The Aurora County All-Stars

Deborah Wiles

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#18

Mary Can!

Mary J. Blige

Themes: Biographical • African American & Black • People & Places

#19

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black • People & Places

#20

A Place to Shine

Marie Arnold

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black • People & Places

#21

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

Themes: African American & Black • People & Places • Performing Arts

#22

I Rise

Marie Arnold

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black • People & Places

#23

Stars and Sparks on Stage

Sharon M. Draper

Themes: Mysteries & Detective Stories • African American & Black • People & Places

#24

Hosea Plays on

Kathleen McAlpin Blasi

Themes: Biographical • African American & Black • People & Places

If Spin by Lamar Giles is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Adolescence & Coming of Age, Biographical, Death, Grief, Bereavement and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Janae Marks, Lamar Giles, E. L. Shen, Swati Avasthi, and others.