YA Books to Stress You Out Instead of School

Immerse yourself in worlds and characters with daunting situations and distract yourself from real-world stress with fictional stress.

By Sophia Considine

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Whether school is starting, dragging on, at the midpoint, or breaching finals week, there’s bound to be some stress that piles up. This might be when you’d reach for a light romantic or comedic novel to keep your spirits up—but what about when you’re so stressed that you can’t enjoy such a light read? Well, the best thing to do is keep yourself in fight or flight mode by reading an equally stressful book. Here, I’ve compiled a list of five books of various genres that fit the bill in various ways.

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