Books like What I Saw and How I Lied

If you liked What I Saw and How I Lied, read 1919 The Year That Changed America, All My Rage, or Challenger Deep — the closest matches in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Closest match: 1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler

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Looking for books like What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell? 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.

10 books similar to What I Saw and How I Lied

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1919 The Year That Changed Americagrades 7–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (7–12). Amazon → books like this →
All My Ragegrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Challenger Deepgrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Far From The Treegrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Last Night at the Telegraph Clubgrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
March Book Threegrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume Igrades 9–12
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
The Poet X800L
Both on the National Book Award for Young People's Literature list and overlapping grades (8–12). Amazon → books like this →
A Curse Dark as Goldgrades 9–12
Overlapping grades (9–12) and the same era (2000s). Amazon → books like this →
A Hat Full of Skygrades 9–12
Overlapping grades (9–12) and the same era (2000s). Amazon → books like this →

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Common questions

What books are similar to What I Saw and How I Lied?
The 10 closest matches to What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell on ReadingList include 1919 The Year That Changed America, All My Rage, Challenger Deep, Far From The Tree, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club. 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 What I Saw and How I Lied 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.

Book data last updated 2026-09-05. Matches are computed from each book’s cited attributes — see the methodology.

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