Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Car

Across Assimilation, Pregnancy, Depression, and Violence — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Car by Gary Paulsen.

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Top related books to The Car

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: Pregnancy • Depression • Violence

Yellow Flag

Robert Lipsyte

Themes: Assimilation • Violence • Boys & Men

The Stepping Off Place

Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

I Never

Laura Hopper

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

The Rifle

Gary Paulsen

Themes: Pregnancy • Depression • Violence

Moment of Truth

Kasie West

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

A Year to the Day

Robin Benway

Themes: Assimilation • Depression • Boys & Men

Nevernever

Will Shetterly

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

Fireworks

Katie Cotugno

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

#10

Elsewhere

Will Shetterly

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

#11

Rules for Being a Girl

Candace Bushnell

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

#12

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

Themes: Depression • Military & Wars • Boys & Men

#13

I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Violence

#14

Runestone Saga: Children of Ragnarok

Cinda Williams Chima

Themes: Violence • Survival Stories • New Experience

#15

Allies

Alan Gratz

Themes: Military & Wars • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

#16

Resurrection of the Phoenix’s Grace (Book Four) Phoenix Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy with Phoenixes

LRW Lee

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Coming of Age

#17

With You All the Way

Cynthia Hand

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

#18

What Do You Say, Little Blue Truck? Sound Book

Alice Schertle

Themes: Violence • Cars & Trucks • Boys & Men

#19

Hot British Boyfriend

Kristy Boyce

Themes: Pregnancy • Violence • New Experience

#20

Skeeter

Kay Smith

Themes: Pregnancy • Depression • Violence

#21

Wing Nut

Mary Jane Auch

Themes: Cars & Trucks • Boys & Men • New Experience

#22

Be Not Far from Me

Mindy McGinnis

Themes: Depression • Violence • Survival Stories

#23

Out of Body

Nia Davenport

Themes: Assimilation • Pregnancy • Depression

#24

Le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Themes: Pregnancy • Depression • Violence

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Car by Gary Paulsen — spanning Assimilation, Pregnancy, Depression and featuring authors such as Han Nolan, Robert Lipsyte, Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, Laura Hopper, and others.