11 must-read realistic fiction books like Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

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Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Kindling

By: Traci Chee

3.76

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-r… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's Kindling book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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4. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

5. Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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6. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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8. 49 Days

By: Agnes Lee

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Day 1 Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’… read more

Similar categories in Agnes Lee's 49 Days book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. … read more

Similar categories in Parisa Akhbari's Just Another Epic Love Poem book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

12. Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis… read more

Similar categories in Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • audiobook
Cover of Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

13. Ariel Crashes a Train

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Ariel Crashes a Train book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train

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14. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. Six Truths and a Lie

By: Ream Shukairy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more

Similar categories in Ream Shukairy's Six Truths and a Lie book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Dispatches from Parts Unknown

By: Bryan Bliss

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Julie knows it’s unusual that a professional wrestler runs a constant commentary on her life that o… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Bliss's Dispatches from Parts Unknown book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

18. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

Cover of Brownstone by Samuel Teer

19. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo

20. Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

By: Paula Yoo

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact o… read more

Similar categories in Paula Yoo's Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • audiobook
Cover of Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

21. Chronically Dolores

By: Maya Van Wagenen

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called… read more

Similar categories in Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores book and Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 Top fiction books like Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

Transform Your Habits

Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Kindling

Traci Chee

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up, This Is Serious

Carolina Ixta

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Bright Red Fruit

Safia Elhillo

4.49

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20 Top fiction books like Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

Transform Your Habits

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

Transform Your Habits

Louder Than Hunger

John Schu

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Thirsty

Jas Hammonds

4.16

Transform Your Habits

On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

4.20

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