Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Ages 9-12
  3. Stories ages 9-12

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.6(44)

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Six starred reviews!

A bold and irreverent YA novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable, The Rest of Just Live Here is from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy.

What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?

What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC Choice * Michael Printz Award shortlist * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * VOYA Perfect Ten * NYPL Top Ten Best Books of the Year for Teens * Chicago Public Library Best Teen Books of the Year * Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books * ABC Best Books for Children * Bank Street Best Books List


Author:

  • Patrick Ness

Narrator:

  • James Fouhey

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 6 h 24 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Ages 9-12
  • Stories ages 9-12
  • Ages 9-12
  • Love and relationships ages 9-12
  • Ages 9-12
  • Children’s nonfiction ages 9-12
  • Teenage and young adult
  • Love and life
  • Teenage and young adult
  • Novels
  • Teenage and young adult
  • Nonfiction

More by Patrick Ness

Skip the list
  1. Burn

    Patrick Ness

    audiobook
  2. Doctor Who: 13 Doktoren, 13 Geschichten

    Neil Gaiman, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer, Malorie Blackman, Marcus Sedgwick, Michael Scott, Alex Scarrow, Patrick Ness, Philip Reeve, Richelle Mead

    book
  3. And The Ocean Was Our Sky

    Patrick Ness

    audiobook
  4. Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You

    Patrick Ness, James Goss

    audiobook
  5. Class: Joyride

    Patrick Ness, Guy Adams

    audiobook
  6. Release

    Patrick Ness

    audiobook
  7. Class: The Stone House

    Patrick Ness, A. K. Benedict

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Was ich sonst nicht sagen kann

    Lea Beschorner

    book
  2. Here's To Us

    Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

    audiobookbook
  3. Gabor Gay

    Anja Rosok

    book
  4. #queer

    Nadine Föhse

    book
  5. What If It's Us

    Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

    audiobook
  6. Lose You to Find Me

    Erik J. Brown

    audiobook
  7. Traitor to the Throne: Rebel of the Sands, Book 2 : Rebel of the Sands, Book 2

    Alwyn Hamilton

    audiobook
  8. Hero at the Fall

    Alwyn Hamilton

    audiobook
  9. Powerful : A Powerless Story

    Lauren Roberts

    audiobook
  10. Der Wind in den Weiden : oder Christoph, Großmaul und Cornelius. Die Abenteuer einer lustigen Gesellschaft am Fluss, im Wald und anderswo

    Kenneth Grahame

    audiobook
  11. Here’s to Us

    Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

    audiobook
  12. Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg und keiner geht hin : 15 wahre Geschichten gegen Krieg, Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch

    Heather Camlot

    audiobook

  • 8 books

    Patrick Ness

    Patrick Ness is the author of ten novels, including his New York Times bestselling The Rest of Us Just Live Here, the Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, A Monster Calls, which was made into a major motion picture with a screenplay adaptation by Patrick himself, Release, and And The Ocean Was Our Sky. Born in Virginia, Patrick lives in London. www.patrickness.com

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5