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.

Bad Asians
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
Just Between Us: A Graphic Novel
A Kid Like Me: A Graphic Novel
A Scar like a River
Every Exit Brings You Home
Birdy
Hail Mariam
Goodbye, French Fry
Room to Breathe
The Moon Without Stars
Your Tomorrow Was Today
Gumshoe
Winter White: A Modern Retelling of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Brady Mason's Perfect Fit
The Wedding People
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
This Book Made Me Think of You
Demon Copperhead
Sandwich
How to Read a Book
Culpability
The Irish Goodbye
Three Days in June
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
In Her Defense
I Hope This Finds You Well
We All Live Here
A Family Matter
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
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
3,003 books — 12,455 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
744 books — 288 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHatchet by Gary PaulsenCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsLord of the Flies by William GoldingLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Survival Stories
1,171 books — 1,613 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 — 608 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)
139 books — 219 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Giver by Lois Lowry
YAsaves
552 books — 289 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)

Charles Cordell, a former soldier, writes with bravura confidence.
The Times

Willi Pochinov
Well, Captain van der Velde, you’re so deep in the ordure, you’re standing on tip toe and it’s still up to your ear lobes. I reckon you’re the ideal man to find some answers.’ ‘But I’m under mess arrest, Sir!’ ‘That’s not my bloody problem is it, Captain? Now you listen to me! We don’t know how far up this thing goes. I want you to find out what the hell is going on and report back to me personally. So, get your arse of that bed and get yourself out of here any way you like. But you can’t blam ...more
Willi Pochinov, Maskirovka

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