Books like the duff

The DUFF is a young adult novel by Kody Keplinger. Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on June 7, 2011. A film based on the novel, also entitled The DUFF, was released in 2015. The film was a success, and only had a budget of $8.5 million. A companion novel Lying Out Loud was released on April 28, 2015 and is set in the same world as The DUFF.

High school student Bianca Piper, along with her friends Casey Blithe and Jessica Gaither, frequent a teen lounge called the Nest. One January night as Casey and Jessica are dancing, another student named Wesley Rush, who has a reputation as a womanizer, approaches Bianca. He explains that he wants people to see him talking with her, because she is the “Duff,” the Designated Ugly Fat Friend, and a connection with her will bring other, more attractive women to him. Disgusted, Bianca finds her friends and leaves. A few nights later, however, Wesley approaches Bianca at the club again after Bianca had a particularly bad day, and Bianca spontaneously kisses Wesley in order to distract herself from her problems.