Books like If I should die before I wake by Han Nolan

A poignant young‑adult tale of two teens—Hazel and Augustus—who meet in a cancer support group, and whose unlikely romance forces them to confront love, illness, and the meaning of life.

At Culver Creek Boarding School, Miles "Pudge" Halter leaves his uneventful home life to find adventure, only to be drawn into the complex world of Alaska Young – a brilliant, enigmatic student whose presence challenges and changes him forever.

A coming‑of‑age epistolary novel that follows introverted teen Charlie through his freshman year in a 1990s Pittsburgh suburb as he navigates high school, friendship and the challenges of adolescence.

When Clay Jenkins discovers 13 tapes left by his classmate Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, he must confront the 13 reasons that drove her to end her life—one of which is him.

Based on the true story of a Jewish boy's survival during ten concentration camps of the Holocaust, this novel follows Yanek Gruener's harrowing journey from his birth in Poland to the camps in Germany, Germany, and Poland.

Once follows Felix, a young Jewish orphan newly escaped from a Polish orphanage, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi‑occupied Poland to rescue his parents and survive the Holocaust.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

Aaron Soto, a Bronx teen haunted by poverty and loss, seeks memory‑altering hope at Leteo Institute, finding unexpected love and a path to self‑acceptance.

A young girl's journey across borders and through Nazi-occupied Hungary as her mother searches for her in a world of strangers and constant fear of Nazi roundups.

A terminally ill teenager compiles a wish‑list of adventures and memories she hopes to fulfill before her time runs out.

Eleven‑year‑old Zelda lives in Australia with her grandfather, Holocaust‑survivor Felix Salinger, while her physician‑parents work in Africa. A tragic disaster forces the family to confront buried memories of Felix’s first childhood love.

Simon, a young Polish Jew, is uprooted by the Nazis from his Warsaw home into a cramped ghetto, where his family is seized. Alone, he flees to the countryside and struggles to survive amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

Two brothers flee occupied Paris to escape the Nazis, disguising themselves as Jews to reach the free zone during World War II. Their journey of ingenuity, danger, and secrecy becomes a true story of survival and resilience.

In Venice, young reporter Lesley is assigned to interview famed violinist Paolo Levi, who warns her never to ask the "Mozart question" – a secret that will force Paolo to confront the past.

Set after Kristallnacht, "Good‑bye Marianne" follows a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany whose life is shattered as schools close and the Gestapo hunts her father. She encounters a boy in the Hitler Youth, forcing her to confront identity and survival.

A young Jewish woman survives a 1944 train transport to a Nazi death camp, is rescued and raised by those who risked their lives for her, and later finds peace within her own family.

A young Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany arrives in New York City on the seventh night of Hanukkah, where everyday acts of kindness help him navigate and discover hope in a new land.

A young cat witnesses the transformation of Berlin’s Rosenstrasse into a site of fear and violence as the 1938 Kristallnacht erupts, offering children a factual glimpse into the Holocaust’s first wave of terror.

A Dutch woman, guided by her grandson, retraces her life as a Jewish girl in Amsterdam during the Holocaust to uncover the fate of her parents before they perished in a concentration camp.

After her sister’s death, seventeen‑year‑old Lennie grapples with grief, a love triangle, and her ambition to become a musician.

A story of hope in the middle of the Holocaust, told by a woman in a concentration camp barracks.

Anna, born to a German father and Jewish mother, dreams of becoming a ballerina, but Nazi persecution drives her into a work camp where her Christian faith keeps her hope alive to reunite with her family.

"In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do Catholic intelligentsia of Rome. But her childhood world of velvet and lace, airy apartments, indulgent nannies, and summers in the mountains was also the world of Mussolini's Fascist regime and the increasing oppression of Italian Jews.". "In First Words, Loy interweaves the two Italys of her early years, shifting with powerful effect from a lyrical evocation of the many comforts of her class to the accumulation of laws stipulating where Jews were forbidden to travel and what they were not allowed to buy, eat, wear, and read. She reveals the willful ignorance of her own family as one by one their neighbors disappeared, and she indicts journalists and intellectuals for their blindness and passivity. And with hard-won clarity, she presents a dispassionate record of the role of the Vatican and the Catholic leadership in the devastation of Italy's Jews."--BOOK JACKET.

During a pivotal summer in 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young confronts her own identity as 18-year‑old King‑Roy Johnson, charged with murder, takes residence in her family home.