If you don’t really like fantasy, science fiction, or supernatural stuff, then here’s a list of more realistic fiction. Boys, girls, parents, sports, school, music, friends, anxieties, family — real things that could plausibly be experienced by real people! Here are 35 of our current faves.
Last Updated December 2023
- The Poet X / Acevedo, Elizabeth
- Imogen, obviously / Albertalli, Becky
- When it all syncs up / Ameyaw, Maya
- Speak / Anderson, Laurie Halse
- I am not Esther (sequels) / Beale, Fleur
- Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret / Blume, Judy
- Plan A / Caletti, Deb
- Eddy, Eddy / de Goldi, Kate
- I wish you all the best / Deaver, Mason
- Dog tucker / Drinkwater, K.
- Between the flags / Fenton, Rachel
- Almost American girl / Ha, Robin
- Singing home the whale / Hager, Mandy
- The dos and donuts of love / Jaigirdar, Adiba
- Tokyo ever after / Jean, Emiko
- You should see me in a crown / Johnson, Leah
- In our own backyard / Kayes, Anne
- Mark my words / Khan, Muhammad
- Darius the Great is not okay / Khorram, Adib
- Learning to love blue / Koirala, Saradha
- A map to the sun / Leong, Sloane
- Mexikid: a graphic memoir / Martin, Pedro
- Catch a falling star / Merriman, Eileen
- Dumplin’ / Murphy, Julie
- Holes / Sachar, Louis
- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
- The renaissance of Gwen Hathaway / Shumacher, Ashley
- Give me a sign / Sortino, Anna
- Chaos theory / Stone, Nic
- Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me / Tamaki, Mariko
- This place is still beautiful / Tan, Xixi
- Hucking Cody / Topp, Aaron
- The magic fish / Trung, Le Nguyen
- Go with the flow / Williams, Lily
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