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
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 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

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 by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverThe Sea of Tranquility by Katja MillaySlammed by Colleen HooverVain by Fisher Amelie
Beautiful Prose, Plot and People
299 books — 271 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
Blotch in the Mirror by Stuart E. SchadtI’ve Been Waiting by William L. HarbenDiary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff KinneyOswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara PascoeThe Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
4th-7th Grade Reluctant Boy Readers
397 books — 379 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

Susan  Rowland
Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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