Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Plan

If you loved The Plan by Alison Paul, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in New Baby, Aviation, Bedtime & Dreams, and 21st Century.

New Baby Aviation Bedtime & Dreams 21st Century New Experience Parents Death, Grief, Bereavement 19th Century Imagination & Play Social Topics Transportation 20th Century Family Social Themes United States Action & Adventure Juvenile Nonfiction Historical Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to The Plan

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

We Rode the Orphan Trains

Andrea Warren

Themes: New Baby • 21st Century • New Experience

Pete the Kitty’s First Steps Book and Milestone Cards

James Dean

Themes: New Baby • Bedtime & Dreams • New Experience

The Garden of Eve

Kelly L. Going

Themes: New Experience • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

World Made of Glass

Ami Polonsky

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

Sweeping Up the Heart

Kevin Henkes

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Imagination & Play

Remember to Dream, Ebere

Cynthia Erivo

Themes: Bedtime & Dreams • Parents • Imagination & Play

Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves — L. M. Elliott

L.M. Elliott

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

The Meanest of Meanies A Book about Love

Kristin Hensley

Themes: New Baby • New Experience • Parents

Peek-A-You! (a Bright Brown Baby Board Book)

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: New Baby • New Experience • Imagination & Play

#10

Hollow Chest

Brita Sandstrom

Themes: 21st Century • New Experience • 19th Century

#11

Preacher’s Boy

Katherine Paterson

Themes: New Experience • Parents • 19th Century

#12

Glitter Gets Everywhere

Yvette Clark

Themes: New Experience • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#13

Keeping Score

Linda Sue Park

Themes: 21st Century • New Experience • 19th Century

#14

Something to Hold

Katherine Logan Schlick Noe

Themes: New Baby • Parents • Transportation

#15

Wing Nut

Mary Jane Auch

Themes: New Experience • Parents • Social Topics

#16

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

LRW Lee

Themes: Bedtime & Dreams • Parents • Imagination & Play

#17

Efrén Divided A Novel

Ernesto Cisneros

Themes: New Experience • Parents • Social Topics

#18

Don Mclean’s American Pie A Fable

Meteor 17 Books

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Imagination & Play • Social Topics

#19

Many Points of Me

Caroline Gertler

Themes: New Baby • New Experience • Parents

#20

Stay This Way Forever

Linsey Davis

Themes: New Baby • Bedtime & Dreams • New Experience

#21

When You Were New

Jennifer Harris

Themes: New Baby • Bedtime & Dreams • New Experience

#22

Finding Orion

John David Anderson

Themes: New Baby • New Experience • Parents

#23

Balloons for Papa A Story of Hope and Empathy

Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia

Themes: New Baby • New Experience • Parents

#24

The Bedtime Boat

Sital Gorasia Chapman

Themes: Bedtime & Dreams • Parents • Imagination & Play

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of New Baby, Aviation, Bedtime & Dreams — the same threads that run through The Plan by Alison Paul. Among the authors featured: Andrea Warren, James Dean, Kelly L. Going, Ami Polonsky, and others.

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