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
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
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasRed Queen by Victoria AveyardMermen by Mimi Jean PamfiloffAn Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirSix of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
New Series (2015)
493 books — 1,198 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

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanGone Girl by Gillian FlynnAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Books With Multiple Perspectives
746 books — 307 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Best YA Books for the Adult Reader
750 books — 606 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)

Kendare Blake
And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into so much trouble and pretty much makes everyone behave like an ass can live in a place like this. Somewhere during dry cleaning, details, and missed meals, it flakes away and what you're left with is married people with a tolerable affinity for each other. That little four-letter word can exist only in poetry, or movies of 2 to 3 hours in length. Maybe in a min ...more
Kendare Blake, Sleepwalk Society

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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