Ever Since
By: Alena Bruzas
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intense, beautiful debut about the power of finding your voice and sharing your story after trau…
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1. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
2. 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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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
3. 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
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- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
4. Ever Since
By: Alena Bruzas
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intense, beautiful debut about the power of finding your voice and sharing your story after trau… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- abuse
- audiobook
5. Give Me a Sign
By: Anna Sortino
4.11
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
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
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
7. The Debutantes
By: Olivia Worley
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Jessica Goodman meets The Agathas in this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering world of M… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
8. On the Bright Side
By: Anna Sortino
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
9. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- 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
10. Forgive Me Not
By: Jennifer Baker
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one incarcerated teen weighs what she is… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"...Counselor Susan was right about one thing: We’re more than our worst mistakes."-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"All this got me wondering: Is that what forgiveness is? Is it forgetting and moving on? Is it doing whatever it takes to hear “I forgive you"-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"We’re not the same. Nothing will ever be the same. I try to say it, but it doesn’t come out. It can’t, because all the hurt needs to be spewed out first. Along with all the shame, hiding, guilt."-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"The way my parents are reacting to this and last week’s Trials reminds me how much is and isn’t in their control. We’re all experiencing this together with Letta, only we can’t be there to help her. …"-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
11. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
12. These Bodies Between Us
By: Sarah Van Name
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about four friends who spend their summer learn… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. Last Girl Breathing
By: Court Stevens
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, one teen girl must examine a tragic event… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
14. Forever Is Now
By: Mariama J. Lockington
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black teen coming of age in an anxiety-in… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- 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
16. The Atlas of Us
By: Kristin Dwyer
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. The Meadows
By: Stephanie Oakes
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
"A story of pain, injustice, love, resistance, and hope, this glorious book will lodge inside you a… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"There is something so good about rage."-Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows
"Maybe for the ones who get good at pretending, it won't come out for years and years...Or they'll, quite without warning, walk into the ocean until their life disappears. And everyone will be stunned…"-Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows
18. This Is Me Trying
By: Racquel Marie
4.20
Format: None pages, None
Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour, This is Me Trying is a profound and tender YA contemporary novel e… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Immortal Dark
By: Tigest Girma
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
20. The Games Gods Play (The Crucible, #1)
By: Abigail Owen
4.35
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
The gods love to toy with us mere mortals. And every hundred years, we let them… I have never be… read more
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- romance
- fiction
21. Up in Flames
By: Hailey Alcaraz
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Gorgeous, wealthy, and entitled, Ruby has just one single worry in her life—scheming to get the boy… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
