Read-alikes and related books

Books like This Time Will Be Different

If you loved This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Asian American & Pacific Islander, Prejudice & Racism, Parents, and Social Topics.

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Top related books to This Time Will Be Different

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of This Time Will Be Different.

Frankly in Love

David Yoon

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • Parents

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Parents • Social Topics • Love & Romance

Solo

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Yes No Maybe So

Becky Albertalli

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

The Sun is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Heartbreak Symphony

Laekan Zea Kemp

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Love & Romance

Café Con Lychee

Emery Lee

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

#10

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Jenny Ferguson

Themes: Parents • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

#11

Accidental Love

Gary Soto

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

#12

I Rise

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Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#13

Ways to Grow Love

Renée Watson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Love & Romance

#14

Xoxo

Axie Oh

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

#15

Pride

Ibi Zoboi

Themes: Social Topics • Love & Romance • Girls & Women

#16

This Place is Still Beautiful

Tian, Xixi

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • Girls & Women

#17

A Sitting in St. James

Rita Williams-Garcia

Themes: Social Topics • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#18

When the Schools Shut Down A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision

Yolanda Gladden

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Girls & Women

#19

We Set the Dark on Fire

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Love & Romance

#20

The Closest I’ve Come

Fred Aceves

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • African American & Black

#21

We Free the Stars

Hafsah Faizal

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Love & Romance

#22

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe

Bette Greene

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Love & Romance

#23

Flip the Script

Lyla Lee

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Girls & Women • LGBTQ

#24

Loveboat, Taipei

Abigail Hing Wen

Themes: Parents • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Fans of This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura will find 24 titles here, all united by Asian American & Pacific Islander, Prejudice & Racism, Parents. Authors represented include David Yoon, Kacen Callender, Kwame Alexander, Becky Albertalli, and others.