What books are similar to Conditions of a Heart?

The 10 closest matches to Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle on ReadingList include Everything We Never Had, Four for the Road, Never Thought I'd End Up Here, Shut Up, This Is Serious, and Sky's End. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 9–12), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.

Are books like Conditions of a Heart reading-level appropriate?

Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades 9–12), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.

How does ReadingList choose similar books?

Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Books like Conditions of a Heart

If you liked Conditions of a Heart, read Everything We Never Had, Four for the Road, or Never Thought I'd End Up Here — the closest matches in our database, matched on reading level.

Closest match: Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

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Looking for books like Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle (Young Adult Fiction · grades 9–12)? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 9–12 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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Everything We Never Hadgrades 7–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (7–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Four for the Roadgrades 9–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (9–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Never Thought I'd End Up Heregrades 7–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (7–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Shut Up, This Is Seriousgrades 9–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (9–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Sky's Endgrades 7–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (7–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
The Forbidden Bookgrades 7–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (7–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
The Silence That Binds Usgrades 9–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction), overlapping grades (9–12), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
American Born Chinese530L: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction) and overlapping grades (7–12). Amazon → books like this →
Artificegrades 9–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction) and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Bittersweet in the Hollowgrades 9–12: Same genre (Young Adult Fiction) and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →