What books are similar to Five Feet Apart?

The 10 closest matches to Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott on ReadingList include A Hat Full of Sky, City of Bones, Crazy, Eva, and Fat Kid Rules The World. 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 Five Feet Apart 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 Five Feet Apart

If you liked Five Feet Apart, read A Hat Full of Sky, City of Bones, or Crazy — the closest matches in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Closest match: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

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Looking for books like Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott (Children's · grades 9–12)? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, shared award lists, 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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A Hat Full of Skygrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
City of Bonesgrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Crazygrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Evagrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Fat Kid Rules The Worldgrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Fourgrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Hope Was Heregrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Nasty, Stinky Sneakersgrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
New Moongrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Peachesgrades 9–12: Both on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →