The Sun Is Also a Star
One-day YA romance, fate, family pressure, and timing
By Ember · Updated May 17, 2026
The Sun Is Also a Star is a one-day YA romance about timing, family, immigration pressure, and the frightening possibility that one person can change the story of your life in a few hours.
Readers coming from To All the Boys I've Loved Before often want teen romance with family at the center, but The Sun Is Also a Star is more urgent and philosophical.
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The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is a YA romance about two teens meeting over one day while family and immigration stakes make timing urgent. Similar reads often feature fate, first love, family pressure, and poetic coming-of-age romance.
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What to read after The Sun Is Also a Star
For sweet family-centered YA romance, To All the Boys I've Loved Before is the obvious companion. Anna and the French Kiss keeps the first-love sweep with a travel/school atmosphere.
Tweet Cute is lighter and funnier, while The Summer I Turned Pretty leans into seasonal longing.
The reader take
The fantasy is not that love fixes the world. It is that one person can make a single day feel large enough to matter forever.
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Book recommendations
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by Jenny Han
Soft YA romance with family warmth, fake dating, letters, and first-love stakes.
Anna and the French Kiss
by Stephanie Perkins
Paris boarding school, friendship, and first-love yearning.
Tweet Cute
by Emma Lord
Teen rivals, family businesses, social-media banter, and sweet rom-com timing.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
Summer nostalgia, growing up, and first-love confusion.
Common questions
Is The Sun Is Also a Star a romance?
Yes, it is a YA romance, though it also deals heavily with family, immigration, identity, and fate.
What books are similar to The Sun Is Also a Star?
Try To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Anna and the French Kiss, Tweet Cute, or The Summer I Turned Pretty depending on whether you want family warmth, travel, banter, or summer longing.
Related books like
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Secret love letters sent, a fake relationship formed, real feelings discovered
Anna and the French Kiss
Paris boarding school, first love, and soft YA yearning
Tweet Cute
Teen rivals, social-media banter, and rom-com sweetness
The Summer I Turned Pretty
A girl spends every summer with two brothers at their beach house
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