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.

This Is What Happy Looks Like
That Time I Joined the Circus
The Boyfriend App
If He Had Been With Me
My Life After Now
The Symptoms of My Insanity
White Lines
How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True
How I Lost You
Belonging (Temptation, #2)
Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
Zebra Forest
If I Fall
Manicpixiedreamgirl
Genie Wishes

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  • A Look Back (Prequel) by M. Sembera
    A Look Back (Prequel) (Rennillia, #5)
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    Release date: May 21, 2013
    Before She knew the truth, Rennillia
    was far from innocent but completely
    naive. She was 15 and rebellious.
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    You Look Different in Real Life
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    Release date: May 15, 2013
    A smart, fresh novel about five teens who struggle with friendship and self-identity. Be the first to enter for a chance to win an ARC of YOU LOOK DIF…more View Details »
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    Shredded
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    Release date: Apr 01, 2013
    Signed copies - Contemporary YA

    Drop into the world of girls’ freestyle BMX for an action-packed summer road-trip adventure.

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  • Wonder
    Eleanor & Park
    True
    Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)
    Out of The Easy
    Forbidden
    I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent, #1)
    Hate List
    Ask The Passengers
    How My Summer Went Up in Flames
    Second Chance Summer
    What I Didn't Say
    How to Save a Life
    The Running Dream
    Speechless
    Silence by Becca FitzpatrickCity of Fallen Angels by Cassandra ClareForever by Maggie StiefvaterClockwork Prince by Cassandra ClareBloodlines by Richelle Mead
    Best Upcoming Young Adult Novels of 2011
    179 books — 422 voters
    Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherLooking for Alaska by John GreenLock and Key by Sarah DessenThis Lullaby by Sarah DessenJust Listen by Sarah Dessen
    Best Realistic Fictions for Teens
    50 books — 47 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenImpulse by Ellen HopkinsSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
    YA Realistic Fiction
    124 books — 129 voters
    Looking for Alaska by John GreenAnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsThe Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy NelsonWintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
    Realistic YA Saves
    20 books — 37 voters

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
    Best YA books for the adult reader
    293 books — 190 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars
    Thirteen Reasons Why
    Speak
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Looking for Alaska
    Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)
    Wonder
    Paper Towns
    Holes (Holes, #1)
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
    Wintergirls
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
    Rules
    Just Listen

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    Stephen Chbosky
    And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).
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