Realistic Fiction

Realistic Fiction seems like real life, with characters dealing with real life problems. The plot often takes place in the present time. The situations are true or could be, but the main characters are fictional.

All Booked Up
One Word, Six Letters
Here for a Good Time
The Oks Are Not OK
Phoenix (Ride On)
Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions
Hafsa's Way
The Secret Winners Club
Inbetweens
The Blue Dress
The Greenies (The Greenies, #1)
Bad Asians
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
Each and Every Spark
A Kid Like Me: A Graphic Novel―A Heartfelt Story about Friendship and Resilience, For Kids (Ages 8-12)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
This Book Made Me Think of You
Sandwich
When the Cranes Fly South
Culpability
How to Read a Book
Three Days in June
The Irish Goodbye
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
Stuck
We All Live Here
I Hope This Finds You Well
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Worser
Hear Me
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
YA Realistic Fiction
599 books — 576 voters
The Alchemists of Loom by Elise KovaStrange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorCarve the Mark by Veronica RothCaraval by Stephanie GarberWarcross by Marie Lu
New Series (2017)
140 books — 220 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonIf I Stay by Gayle Forman
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
3,008 books — 12,460 voters
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny HanThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasBy Your Side by Kasie WestThe Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
2017 YA contemporary
211 books — 562 voters

Compulsion by J.J.   JohnsonThis Present Darkness by Frank E. PerettiThr3e by Ted DekkerPiercing the Darkness by Frank E. PerettiHouse by Frank E. Peretti
Edgy Christian Book List
407 books — 367 voters
Lady Midnight by Cassandra ClareAge of Myth by Michael J. SullivanThief of Lies by Brenda DrakeAnd I Darken by Kiersten WhiteInto the Dim by Janet B.  Taylor
New Series (2016)
212 books — 352 voters

The Fault in Our Stars
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
The Hate U Give
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Thirteen Reasons Why
Speak
Looking for Alaska
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Eleanor & Park
The Outsiders
Paper Towns
Holes (Holes, #1)
Fangirl
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)

Dean Mafako
The reality is that the lives of the smallest patients are in our hands, and their clinical condition can change in an instant. No matter how many times you are involved in situations such as this, the physical stress and anxiety as well as the emotional and psychological effects of being immersed in that environment are dramatic and lasting on the human body, mind, and central nervous system. These effects are severe, and I firmly believe that they are cumulative over your lifetime.
DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

Hilary McKay
It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And ...more
Hilary McKay, Permanent Rose

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