12 Best realistic fiction books like Some Mistakes Were Made by Kristin Dwyer

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Some Mistakes Were Made

By: Kristin Dwyer

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

You can’t always go home again. Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when…

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1. Summer Skin

By: Kirsty Eagar

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jess Gordon is out for revenge. Last year the jocks from Knights College tried to shame her best fr… read more

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2. I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By: Ann Liang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

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3. This May End Badly

By: Samantha Markum

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Pranking mastermind Doe and her motley band of Weston girls are determined to win the century-long … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Markum's This May End Badly book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I grin, imagining it. “I can hear your creepy smile right now."

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"Stranger Danger. You can't "stranger danger" someone when you asked them to date you."

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"What, worried I’ll find your secret fetish porn stash and tell everyone about your anime bondage tentacle kink?"

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

"I’d say your worth isn’t decided by whether or not you can get a girl-starved demon from Winfield to lay his nasty fish lips you"

-Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

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4. Places We've Never Been

By: Kasie West

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?"

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

"But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing."

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

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5. You Wouldn't Dare

By: Samantha Markum

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A rom com about trying to have the summer of your life before everything changes - only to realize … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Markum's You Wouldn't Dare book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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6. I Wish You Would

By: Eva Des Lauriers

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In this drama-filled love story, private confessions are scattered on the beach during a senior cla… read more

Similar categories in Eva Des Lauriers's I Wish You Would book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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7. Wild Is the Witch

By: Rachel Griffin

3.93

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequence… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"...a hatred so strong not even love could overcome it. The line between the two is paper thin and razor sharp, and we ended up on the wrong side of it. Maybe it was always inevitable, but if that wer…"

-Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

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8. Love, Off the Record

By: Samantha Markum

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Hating Game meets Alex, Approximately in this smart, chemistry-filled teen rom-com about two ri… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. In the Orbit of You

By: Ashley Schumacher

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the Orbit of You is a YA story of enduring love from acclaimed author Ashley Schumacher, where a… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Schumacher's In the Orbit of You book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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10. Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

By: Ellen O'Clover

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A clever, charming, and poignant debut novel about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dre… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We're always just looking for each other."

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

"You will become people you can’t even fathom yet. I wish I could be here to meet every version of you, Rosie. I know I would love each one more than the last"

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

"We heard each other in that language between two people who’ve never known a life without the other in it. He didn’t have to speak to tell me he was upset. I didn’t have to show him my hurt for him t…"

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

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11. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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12. The Getaway List

By: Emma Lord

3.58

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"

-Emma Lord, The Getaway List

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13. A Disaster in Three Acts

By: Kelsey Rodkey

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Elise Bryant and Rachel Lynn Solomon will swoon for Last Chance Books author Kelsey Rodkey'… read more

Similar categories in Kelsey Rodkey's A Disaster in Three Acts book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"It's just one of those things where the dread of doing the activity is much worse than the actual activity. Like putting on a bra just for the sole purpose of going to Neato Burrito for takeout."

-Kelsey Rodkey, A Disaster in Three Acts

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14. 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

Similar categories in Alena Bruzas's Ever Since book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Some Mistakes Were Made

By: Kristin Dwyer

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

You can’t always go home again. Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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16. Bring Me Your Midnight

By: Rachel Griffin

3.97

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a l… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Griffin's Bring Me Your Midnight book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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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18. Exactly Where You Need to Be

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Turtles All the Way Down meets Love and Luck in this “lively” ( Publishers Weekly ), romantic road … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's Exactly Where You Need to Be book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My OCD is a speed bump, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"My OCD is a speed bumb, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"As people, as humans, we constantly make mistakes. But we're allowed to grow, to change. There's beauty in that."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"Lauren the therapist always tells me that the only person I can compare myself to are the former versions of myself."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

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19. All Alone with You

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

4.11

Format: 352 pages, ebook

HBO Max’s Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this swoon-worthy novel about … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's All Alone with You book and Kristin Dwyer's Some Mistakes Were Made

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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20. Náhodou

By: Petra Martišková

3.90

Format: 352 pages, None

Elena a Nathan. Princezna a basketbalista s temnou minulostí. Dva vysokoškoláci, které svedl dohrom… read more

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21. Good as Gold

By: Candace Buford

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Netflix's Outer Banks will devour this contemporary YA novel with a propulsive mystery abou… read more

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

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Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

4.18

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This May End Badly

Samantha Markum

3.87

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Places We've Never Been

Kasie West

3.88

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You Wouldn't Dare

Samantha Markum

3.75

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21 best-selling fiction books like Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

Transform Your Habits

Promchanted

Morgan Matson

3.69

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Begin Again

Emma Lord

3.71

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Kasie West

3.88

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Meredith Ireland

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