Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Self Mutilation
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$269
The median book price
$9.62
Bestseller's daily sales
34
50th book's daily sales
0
Average number of pages per book
308
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
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New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
juvenile > fiction > social issues > self-mutilation
92.58%
juvenile > nonfiction > social issues > self-mutilation
77.15%
juvenile > fiction > social issues > self-esteem & self-reliance
71.71%
juvenile > fiction > social issues > violence
67.61%
Keyword requirement
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 4 words:
- Kiss of Broken Glass
- Girl in Pieces
- It Only Hurts at First
- What it Takes to Lose
- More Than a Number
- Indie success
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42.11%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
100%
0%
30%
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Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Kiss of Broken Glass | Madeleine Kuderick | N/A | N/A | $330 | $11.80 | 68 | |
2 | Bully Bait: A Sweet Bully High School Mini-Romance (Centennial High Book 1) | Ashlea Ryan | Self published | N/A | $27 | $0.99 | 236 | |
3 | The Silver Charm: Surviving The Unthinkable...One Woman's Fight | Robin Morgan | Self published | N/A | $419 | $14.99 | 0 | |
4 | Rage | Jackie Morse Kessler | Self published | N/A | $33 | $1.18 | 90 | |
5 | Girl in Pieces | Kathleen Glasgow | Listening Library | 3,544 | $20,620 | $21.66 | 20,218 | |
6 | Wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | Listening Library | 26,706 | $3,042 | $18.11 | 2,851 | |
7 | Girl in Pieces | Kathleen Glasgow | Delacorte Press | 30,900 | $1,258 | $8.99 | 20,229 | |
8 | Wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | Viking Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition | 49,052 | $518 | $9.26 | 2,851 | |
9 | It Only Hurts at First | Allison Rogers | (January 10, 2023) | 146,525 | $83 | $2.99 | 217 | |
10 | A Trailer Park Fable (Trailer Park Series Book 2) | T.M. Shivener | Self published | 161,392 | $111 | $3.99 | 43 | |
11 | Wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | Self published | 166,469 | $279 | $9.99 | 2,851 | |
12 | What it Takes to Lose | Anne Taylor | Self published | 176,301 | $83 | $2.99 | 47 | |
13 | Cut | Patricia McCormick | PUSH; Reprint edition | 188,186 | $81 | $2.92 | 864 | |
14 | Crosses | Shelley Stoehr | Open Road Distribution | 210,825 | $111 | $3.99 | 61 | |
15 | More Than a Number | Gracie Graham | Cherry Valley Press | 214,517 | $167 | $5.99 | 388 |
Kiss of Broken Glass
Madeleine Kuderick
Sariah embarks on a journey she believes promises love and protection, only to find herself ensnared in a web of manipulation and abuse. Gifted a mysterious silver charm, she begins to question the very essence of love. As tensions escalate, Sariah seizes the chance to break free, setting off a relentless game of cat and mouse with her possessive boyfriend, Sam.Each escape attempt tightens Sam's grip, but Sariah's will to find true love and purpose keeps her running. With hundreds of miles beneath her feet and danger breathing down her neck, she clutches the silver charm and pleads for a sign from the universe.Convinced that love is not a prison but a liberating force, Sariah makes a final dash for freedom, racing against time and fate. Her journey culminates in a heart-stopping climax, forcing her to confront the twisted notion of love she's been fed and choose between eternal captivity and the elusive but empowering freedom she so desperately seeks.This gripping narrative not only explores the dark corners of possessive love but also illuminates the path to self-mastery and impactful business in relationships. With each turn of the page, readers will be riveted by Sariah's quest for freedom, love, and a more meaningful life. Read more
Rage
Jackie Morse Kessler
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade. Read more
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Georgia Peach Book AwardFor fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page".Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At 17 she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It's a story you won't be able to look away from.Includes an author's note read by the author."Equal parts keen-eyed empathy, stark candor, and terrible beauty. This book is why we read stories: to experience what it's like to survive the unsurvivable; to find light in the darkest night." (Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King)"Raw, visceral, and starkly beautiful, with writing that is at times transcendent in its brilliance.... An unforgettable story of trauma and resilience." (Kerry Kletter, author of The First Time She Drowned)"A breathtakingly written book about pain and hard-won healing.... I want every girl to read Girl in Pieces." (Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners)“A Girl, Interrupted for a new generation.... The story of the mad girl is ultimately a story about being a girl in a mad world, how it breaks us into pieces and how we glue ourselves back together." (Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me)“Dark, frank, and tender, Girl in Pieces keeps the reader electrified for its entire journey. You’re so uncertain if Charlie will heal, so fully immersed in hoping she does.” (Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter and You’re Not You)"Girl in Pieces has the breath of life; every character in it is fully alive. Charlie Davis' complexities are drawn with great understanding and subtlety." (Charles Baxter, author of National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love) Read more
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
The New York Times best-selling story of a friendship frozen between life and death.Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope. Read more
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book."—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from. And don’t miss Kathleen Glasgow's novels You’d Be Home Now and How to Make Friends with the Dark, both raw and powerful stories of life. Read more
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope. Read more
It Only Hurts at First
Allison Rogers
Alice Matthews used to be one of those girls. Pretty, popular, perfect. Now, she's that girl. Armed with oversized sweatshirts to cover the scars on her wrists, Alice has two objectives in high school. First, avoid Scott Henderson at all costs. Second, avoid everyone else.By now, Scott’s unwanted advances shouldn’t come as a surprise. But when he steps up his harassment in gym class, the last person Alice expects to intervene is the school’s social pariah, Hunter Thomas.Hunter doesn’t care about much. Not his classmates. Not the vacant seats at his lunch table. And certainly not his golden boy stepbrother, Scott. Alice Matthews, on the other hand, is an entirely different story.Drawn together, Alice and Hunter find fragile solace in each other. But despite their affinity, Alice worries that their growing feelings will lead nowhere good. Not when Hunter lives down the hall from the one person she has sworn to avoid, someone who could easily reveal everything she’s been trying to hide. Read more
A Trailer Park Fable (Trailer Park Series Book 2)
T.M. Shivener
Even though Hadlee Morrison doesn't think girls are supposed to like other girls, she still finds herself infatuated with her best girl friend, Sammie. She doesn't know anyone else who is like her. No one in the trailer park even talks about it. Her biggest fear is that she'll disappoint her family and friends because she's not what society deems normal. She's been keeping her secret to herself. When Hadlee's emotions take over, she finds herself using a negative coping mechanism to numb away her inappropriate thoughts about Sammie.An unexpected high school romance blossoms in between the pages of A Trailer Park Fable. Read more
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope. Read more
What it Takes to Lose
Anne Taylor
When Eve Allred, a high school junior, loses some weight for the first time, she is intoxicated with the compliments and praise she receives.Then Ana shows up.Ana, the beautiful and strikingly skinny girl who seems to come out of nowhere, insists Eve isn’t done losing weight, and for reasons she can’t comprehend, Eve feels an uncontrollable urge to obey her. Ten pounds quickly turns to twenty, which turns to fifty.Months of hospitalization and rehab later, Eve is ready to get better. But even the smallest tasks prove difficult when Ana, the friend Eve wishes she never had, has other plans. Trying to transition back to her normal life, Eve struggles with repairing broken relationships with friends and family while trying to get back to the normal life she used to know.Early in her recovery Eve also runs into a boy at school who gives her a tormented, pain-filled gaze that haunts her thoughts. Several more encounters with the boy and the same tortured look make Eve even more desperate to figure out how she is causing this stranger so much pain.Eve’s struggle to balance everything—the boy, trying to recreate her old life, and vicious Ana—provides a raw look at what recovering from an eating disorder is really like and proves nothing is as simple as it seems. Read more
Cut
Patricia McCormick
From National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, a new look for her debut novel, which THE BOSTON GLOBE called "Riveting and hopeful, sweet, heartbreaking."A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside. Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak. But Callie can only stay silent for so long.... Read more
Crosses
Shelley Stoehr
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and an ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Readers Nancy and Katie are best friends with one big thing in common—they both cut themselves: “Not by accident, we do it purposely—and regularly—because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit.” Crosses was the first novel for young adults to deal with an increasingly widespread disorder, and “graphically describes the cry for help of many adolescents and how far they have to fall before they are even noticed” (Voice of Young Adults). Read more
More Than a Number
Gracie Graham
I lost forty pounds after a stint in fat camp my sophomore year.Prior to losing weight, most of my time was spent comparing myself to my twin sister and trying to hide my cankles.However, losing weight changed everything.Now, I'm popular, vying for the hottest guy in school, and competing for a prom queen nomination. Finally, I'm getting noticed, and it's all because I dropped the pounds.Everything I ever wanted is right at my fingertips.If only I could lose more weight, and I'd be perfect.But my friend Jake tells me I want all the wrong things. He thinks I'm already perfect.Sometimes you can't see what's right in front of you. Like how I'm spiraling in a deadly game of self-acceptance. Or how, despite being my best friend's brother, Jake has always been the one to catch me when I fall.Can he catch me again? Or am I too far gone?Fans of emotional contemporary YA will fall in love with Souders' heart-wrenching novel. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall, More Than a Number raises thought-provoking questions about love and acceptance, as well as the cost of beauty.*Previously titled Something of Substance* Read more
You Know I'm No Good
Jessie Ann Foley
This razor-sharp novel from Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley will appeal to fans of Wilder Girls and The Grace Year. Mia is officially a Troubled Teen™— she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys.But she doesn’t realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere.While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were a boy, would her behavior be considered wild enough to get sent away? But what happens when circumstances outside of her control compel Mia to make herself vulnerable enough to be truly seen?Challenging and thought-provoking, this stunning contemporary YA novel examines the ways society is stacked against teen girls and what one young woman will do to even the odds. * A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction Selection * A Banks Street Best Children's Book of the Year * Read more
It's Not All Roses
Maia Terry
How can you let the guy you're completely in love with into the darkest parts of your soul? Meeting the star basketball player was never in my plans, and falling in love with him wasn’t even a thought that had crossed my mind…until I did. Yet, I questioned everything. How could Atticus Reed, the popular boy who got along with everyone, fall in love with a broken girl like me? After one of the best nights I’ve had in a long time, I find myself faced with my worst nightmare. Isolating myself, I try to navigate the treacherous thoughts that flood my mind. One night, after things become too much, they convince me to do the unthinkable. it gets to be too much. Atticus doesn’t hesitate to help me through, but will he still be there when he finds out the truth? Read more
He doesn’t back down nor does he want to be saved. Cue the feisty girl who has nothing to lose but a broken heart.He’s always looked at her as his ex’s little sister. After the breakup, they became instant enemies and never gave each other a chance. But when Sebastian lands a role in their high school’s production of Grease, spending time with his co-star is an unpleasant side effect he’ll have to endure to graduate.Izzy is done existing in the shadows. It’s her time for the spotlight. She’s not the naive little girl people think she is. She’ll fight for what she wants. And no matter how much they practice kissing for the play, she won’t fall for him.But throughout rehearsing, she learns Sebastian isn’t the lost cause everyone thinks he is. He just doesn’t know it. She has until closing night to prove it to him.So he’ll know he’s worthy.So he’ll know he’s not broken.So he’ll know he’s the right guy for her.Perfect for those who love good girl, bad boy romances and understand there's more to people than their reputations and everyone deserves a little love and compassion. Read more
It Only Hurts at First
Allison Rogers
Alice Matthews used to be one of those girls. Pretty, popular, perfect. Now, she's that girl. Armed with oversized sweatshirts to cover the scars on her wrists, Alice has two objectives in high school. First, avoid Scott Henderson at all costs. Second, avoid everyone else.By now, Scott’s unwanted advances shouldn’t come as a surprise. But when he steps up his harassment in gym class, the last person Alice expects to intervene is the school’s social pariah, Hunter Thomas.Hunter doesn’t care about much. Not his classmates. Not the vacant seats at his lunch table. And certainly not his golden boy stepbrother, Scott. Alice Matthews, on the other hand, is an entirely different story.Drawn together, Alice and Hunter find fragile solace in each other. But despite their affinity, Alice worries that their growing feelings will lead nowhere good. Not when Hunter lives down the hall from the one person she has sworn to avoid, someone who could easily reveal everything she’s been trying to hide. Read more
The Call of The Dreamwalkers
Rafaële Désiré
Ana must fight to save her friend, her school, and her soul.Every shy ninth-grader has dreams—to fit in, to talk to their crush, maybe even to become popular. For Ana, those dreams are overshadowed by a nightmare when her only friend, Heloise, falls into a coma after a suspicious bus accident. Her world crumbles. School becomes unbearable. Until one fateful night, a strange dream becomes her lifeline.Meet Arcadion, a mysterious light being who unveils a chilling reality—dark forces known as “Mind Worms” exist, feasting on the vulnerability of young minds, pushing them to unimaginable lengths of destruction. They targeted Heloise, and now they’ve set their eyes on Ana.But all is not lost—Ana is destined to fight, to become a “Virtue,” a force for good.Her mission? Save Heloise, save her school, and save herself. To do this, she must enlist her classmates to stand with her, confronting their deepest fears to triumph over evil.It’s more than just a fight for survival—it’s a battle for their souls. But do they have what it takes to face the hideous Mind Worms in their own realm? Or will they be enslaved forever?Every page of this gripping novel will challenge you, inspire you, and make you question - Do you have what it takes to face your fears and fight for what's right?#1 New Release Coming of Age Fiction, November 2023#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction November 2023 Read more