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Fiction about quirky people and those who don't fit in, feeling like an outsider or finding 'your people'. Odd-couple friendships, found family, alternative lifestyles, lost souls, rebels with or without cause... all are welcome. There will probably be some manic pixie dream girls on the list, and a lot of teenage angst. Please feel free to add your favourites!
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story
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Janis Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence, #1)
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K.D. Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 12,570 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
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Charlie J. Eskew (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)
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The Virgin Suicides
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Head Fake
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Scott Gordon (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 692 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
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The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence, #3)
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Convenience Store Woman
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Loser
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
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Geek Love
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
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Debbie Tung (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 18,526 ratings
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Winter in Sokcho
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Crime and Punishment
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 121,609 ratings
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Heaven
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Freak the Mighty (Freak the Mighty, #1)
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The End of the Fucking World
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All The Lovers In The Night
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Ghost World
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Love Story That Shouldn't Have Been
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Time Belong Ghost: A steampunk tale in ancient Papua New Guinea (Iron and Bone Book 2)
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Robyn Goodmanham (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Great Endurance: My Journey. My Truth. My Life.
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Loose Gravel
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Akithar's Greatest Trick (Teshovar, #1)
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Jason Dorough (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Pennington's Last Term (Pennington, #1)
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The Original Glitch
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Melanie Moyer (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Other Birds
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 78,152 ratings
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The Guncle
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Steven Rowley (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 188,280 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Let Them Float: And Other Short Stories
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Katy Wimhurst (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Jassy
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Submarine
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Sweet Bean Paste
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The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls
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Andrew Katz (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Black Sheep
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Normal People
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Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,797,806 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
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Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Blast from the Past
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Jeb Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Bearcat
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Milk Fed
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Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author)
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Let the Right One In
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Hole in the Middle
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Kendra Fortmeyer (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Terry the Black Sheep
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I Called Him Necktie
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
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Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 19,794 ratings
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Jude the Obscure
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Solitaire
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Alice Oseman (Goodreads Author)
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Sad Janet
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The Nothing Place
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Compartment No 6
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Hello Beautiful
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Ann Napolitano (Goodreads Author)
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
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Earthlings
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
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Ordinary Magic
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Oblomov
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Death in Her Hands
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The Unknowns
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Beyond the Boundary
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Woe to Live On
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Junk
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Cora Ravenwing
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A Girl in Winter
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Great Gatsby
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
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Dreaming of Babylon
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All the Lonely People
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Flyaway
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Herb Seasoning
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
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Lemon
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Nina X: Winner of the 2019 Saltire Society Award for Fiction
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The Hidden Ones
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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Adorkable
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The Driver's Seat
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King Death's Garden
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Lost Souls
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Concrete Island
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King Death's Garden: A Ghost's Story
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
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The Greatest Thing
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Sarah Winifred Searle (Goodreads Author)
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