14 must-read realistic fiction books like Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1) by Hayley Krischer

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Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

By: Hayley Krischer

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Rory Power and Laurie Halse Anderson, this sharp, emotional debut follows two g…

"I’m staring at the black of the road in front of me and thinking about why a girl might cry after she has sex. I think it doesn’t have to do so much with love. I think it has a lot to do with regret."

-Hayley Krischer, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

"I’m staring at the black of the road in front of me and thinking about why a girl might cry after she has sex. I think it doesn’t have to do so much with love. I think it has a lot to do with regret."

-Hayley Krischer, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1) by Hayley Krischer , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. The Last to Let Go

By: Amber Smith

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A twisted tragedy leaves Brooke and her siblings on their own in this provocative new novel from th… read more

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2. All in Pieces

By: Suzanne Young

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

"Anger-management issues." That's how they classified Savannah Sutton after she stuck a pencil in h… read more

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3. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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5. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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6. All That’s Left to Say

By: Emery Lord

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. You'd Be Home Now

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.15

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The air was better then."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

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9. Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

By: Hayley Krischer

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Rory Power and Laurie Halse Anderson, this sharp, emotional debut follows two g… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1) book and Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
  • audiobook
"I’m staring at the black of the road in front of me and thinking about why a girl might cry after she has sex. I think it doesn’t have to do so much with love. I think it has a lot to do with regret."

-Hayley Krischer, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

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10. Something Like Gravity

By: Amber Smith

3.67

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor and Park, a romantic and sweet novel about a transgender boy wh… read more

Similar categories in Amber Smith's Something Like Gravity book and Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Someday Daughter

By: Ellen O'Clover

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Seven Percent of Ro Devereux comes another nuanced, heartre… read more

Similar categories in Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter book and Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"We don’t have to do anything to earn it. We matter to the people who love us just by existing."

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

"That’s the thing about feelings—they don’t come with value judgments, they just are. A feeling cannot be wrong; it can only be."

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

"You can honor this feeling. Grieve the loss of something you wanted very much. But these feelings are like waves. We’re better for acknowledging them. Allow this to move you but don’t let it drag you…"

-Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

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12. We Can Be Heroes

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kyrie McCauley, author of If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So…"

-Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

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13. Every Single Lie

By: Rachel Vincent

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping YA novel about social media bullying and half-truths, one girl's discovery of a de… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. 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

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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15. The Year They Fell

By: David Kreizman

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a horrible tragedy unites five very different high school seniors, they discover the worst mom… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Murder for the Modern Girl

By: Kendall Kulper

3.80

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Gatsby-era glamour, a swoon-worthy love story, and an indomitable heroine dazzle in this romp that … read more

Similar categories in Kendall Kulper's Murder for the Modern Girl book and Hayley Krischer's Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
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17. Tell Me My Name

By: Amy Reed

3.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

We Were Liars meets Speak in this haunting, mesmerizing psychological thriller--a gender-flipped YA… read more

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  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Don't you know? You don't even exist."

-Amy Reed, Tell Me My Name

"And all of our want has no where to go."

-Amy Reed, Tell Me My Name

"Maybe some things just need to burn down."

-Amy Reed, Tell Me My Name

"I've only ever lived in the middle of the forest, with no neighbors. I wonder how it compares, being surrounded by strangers, versus being surrounded by trees."

-Amy Reed, Tell Me My Name

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18. The Lucky Ones

By: Liz Lawson

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Nobody Knows But You

By: Anica Mrose Rissi

3.31

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Maybe a killer only looks like a killer in the moment just before, during, or after. Maybe a lia… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points…"

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

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20. Monsters Among Us

By: Monica Rodden

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from … read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. One Killer Problem

By: Justine Pucella Winans

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and thoroughly queer mystery thriller with a touch of camp, for fans of Kara Thomas … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

19 must-read fiction books like Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, #1) by Hayley Krischer

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How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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What Kind of Girl

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

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A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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All That’s Left to Say

Emery Lord

3.73

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9 Best realistic fiction books like The Year They Fell by David Kreizman

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Phantom Limbs

Paula Garner

3.93

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The Last Thing You Said

Sara Biren

3.57

The F- It List

Julie Halpern

3.98

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Hayley Krischer

3.93

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