7 Top realistic fiction books like Grace Notes by Karen Comer

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Grace Notes

By: Karen Comer

4.16

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

  , This song has a grace note a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored…

"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Grace Notes by Karen Comer , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Borderland

By: None

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Borderland- a coming-of-age, YA eco-thriller about Indigenous land rights, with sci-fi elements. St… read more

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2. Friday Brown

By: Vikki Wakefield

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can't speak… read more

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3. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • young adult
  • australia
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • australia
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

By: A.J. Betts

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have wil… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Betts's One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • music
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"No one dismantles this band but me."

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

"Because I've been writing this song my whole life. It's the soundtrack of me."

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

"I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and mu…"

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

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6. Scar Town

By: Tristan Bancks

4.04

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Bancks's Scar Town book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Completely Normal (and other lies)

By: Biffy James

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more

Similar categories in Biffy James's Completely Normal (and other lies) book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

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8. Let’s Never Speak of This Again

By: Megan Williams

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more

Similar categories in Megan Williams's Let’s Never Speak of This Again book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • australia
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9. Grace Notes

By: Karen Comer

4.16

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

  , This song has a grace note a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored… read more

Similar categories in Karen Comer's Grace Notes book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • art
  • music
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • australia
  • social issues
"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"The world has stopped still, yet we can feel our frenzied, uncertain energy spinning the Earth."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"Surely traditions have to evolve? Surely daughters can choose their own happiness? Surely our world can handle this new virus?"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

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10. Inkflower

By: Suzy Zail

4.32

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more

Similar categories in Suzy Zail's Inkflower book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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11. Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt

3.40

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Selby hates homework. She would rather watch daytime television – anything to escape the tedium of … read more

Similar categories in R.A. Spratt's Hamlet is Not OK book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
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12. A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette… read more

Similar categories in Lili Wilkinson's A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1) book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"What good are stories when the monsters are real?"

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

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13. Those Girls

By: Pamela Rushby

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of … read more

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14. Two Can Play That Game

By: Leanne Yong

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Funny and romantic, an upbeat YA novel about gaming, goals and getting even from a fresh new voice … read more

Similar categories in Leanne Yong's Two Can Play That Game book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You go on being wrong about everything, Jaybird. I’ll be there to say “I told you so"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"Why can’t I simply be friends – or frenemies – with him? Is that so strange to both of you?"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"Because the only way you can change the world is by being a winner. Otherwise, the world at best ignores you, or at worst destroys you."

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

"I only wish I could fix things for everyone that easily in real life. I mean, isn’t that why you play games, so you can pretend it’s possible?"

-Leanne Yong, Two Can Play That Game

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15. The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart

By: Samera Kamaleddine

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize win… read more

Similar categories in Samera Kamaleddine's The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • contemporary
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16. The Quiet and the Loud

By: Helena Fox

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from … read more

Similar categories in Helena Fox's The Quiet and the Loud book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"And for a moment - here, now - we aren't the pregnant girl or the quiet girl. We aren't scared of death, or of memories oozing out of the dark. We are two girls, suspended. Timeless. Immense. Untouch…"

-Helena Fox, The Quiet and the Loud

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17. Waiting for the Storks

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the … read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's Waiting for the Storks book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
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18. Stuck Up & Stupid

By: Angourie Rice

3.05

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern trans-Pacific twist on Pride and Prejudice, from an authentic team of debut authors who kn… read more

Similar categories in Angourie Rice's Stuck Up & Stupid book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. The Way of Dog

By: Zana Fraillon

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A fiercely original verse novel from the ABIA and CBCA award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow. … read more

Similar categories in Zana Fraillon's The Way of Dog book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
" Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor. "

-Zana Fraillon, The Way of Dog

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20. Huda Was Here

By: H. Hayek

3.74

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds o… read more

Similar categories in H. Hayek's Huda Was Here book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • contemporary
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21. Scout and the Rescue Dogs

By: Dianne Wolfer

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A celebration of community, adventure, kindness and, above all, dogs! The summer holidays have fin… read more

Similar categories in Dianne Wolfer's Scout and the Rescue Dogs book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • fiction
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22. Birdy

By: Sharon Kernot

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Kernot's Birdy book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • young adult
  • family
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23. Being Jimmy Baxter

By: Fiona Lloyd

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely fri… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lloyd's Being Jimmy Baxter book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • social issues
Cover of Real Pigeons Flap Out (Real Pigeons #11) by Andrew McDonald

24. Real Pigeons Flap Out (Real Pigeons #11)

By: Andrew McDonald

3.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It’s because they’re out there chasing the bad guys an… read more

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25. Tweet

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The people of the world are puzzled. Birds everywhere are sitting on highways, on buildings, on BBQ… read more

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26. Ask no questions

By: Eva Collins

3.96

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories a… read more

Similar categories in Eva Collins's Ask no questions book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
"I wonder what my life will be like in Australia."

-Eva Collins, Ask no questions

Cover of Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret by Amy Doak

27. Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret

By: Amy Doak

4.21

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Things have settled down in Cooinda and Eleanor Jones is getting used to her new normal – spending … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • young adult
Cover of Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman

28. Love, Death & Other Scenes

By: Nova Weetman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nova Weetman' s unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her … read more

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29. Look Me in the Eye

By: Jane Godwin

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

running latedrop it off without meI type drop what off? I don't know what Mish is talking about.Whi… read more

Similar categories in Jane Godwin's Look Me in the Eye book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
  • young adult
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30. Timeless

By: Kelly Canby

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to rea… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Canby's Timeless book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • family
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31. Queenie in Seven Moves

By: Zanni Louise

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A sensitive, timely story addressing loss and belonging. To Queenie, home is Peachy, the little … read more

Similar categories in Zanni Louise's Queenie in Seven Moves book and Karen Comer's Grace Notes

  • music
  • family
  • contemporary

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Transform Your Habits

Runt

Craig Silvey

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

Amy Doak

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Completely Normal (and other lies)

Biffy James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Let’s Never Speak of This Again

Megan Williams

3.80

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Neverlanders

Tom Taylor

3.95

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Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

Amy Doak

3.69

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