20 must-read realistic fiction books like One Great Lie by Deb Caletti

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One Great Lie

By: Deb Caletti

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in Venice. …

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in One Great Lie by Deb Caletti , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Little Do We Know

By: Tamara Ireland Stone

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Next-door neighbors and ex-best friends Hannah and Emory haven't spoken in months. But their paths … read more

Similar categories in Tamara Ireland Stone's Little Do We Know book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Conspiracy of Us (The Conspiracy of Us, #1) by Maggie  Hall

2. The Conspiracy of Us (The Conspiracy of Us, #1)

By: Maggie Hall

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced international escapade, laced with adrenaline, glamour, and romance -- perfect for fan… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Hall's The Conspiracy of Us (The Conspiracy of Us, #1) book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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3. 99 Days

By: Katie Cotugno

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that's how I know everyon… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's 99 Days book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

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

4. As You Wish

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could ask for anything- and get it? In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's As You Wish book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

By: Ann Brashares

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

summer is a time to grow seeds Polly has an idea that she can't stop thinking about, one that invol… read more

Similar categories in Ann Brashares's 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Since You've Been Gone

By: Morgan Matson

4.07

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before wh… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"In a well-ordered universe..."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"Maybe she didn’t do something big. Maybe she just told someone something."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

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7. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Blackwoods book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

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

Similar categories in Samantha Markum's Love, Off the Record book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Emery Lord's All That’s Left to Say book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. Spells for Lost Things

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true … read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Spells for Lost Things book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Families splitting are like earthquakes. Yes, they are happening every day all over the world, but that doesn't make them any less shocking when they happen to you."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things

"It’s Willow, but like a fairy-tale version of Willow. She’s barefoot and wearing a coral-pink dress that somehow makes everything about her more her. More freckles, more pinkish tones to her skin, ev…"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things

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12. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Rosewood Hunt

By: Mackenzie Reed

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lily Rosewood dreams of taking over her family's company one day. Her grandmother, Rosewood Inc's c… read more

Similar categories in Mackenzie Reed's The Rosewood Hunt book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. This Golden State

By: Marit Weisenberg

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i… read more

Similar categories in Marit Weisenberg's This Golden State book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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15. Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

By: Gretchen Schreiber

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schre… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Schreiber's Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of One Great Lie by Deb Caletti

16. One Great Lie

By: Deb Caletti

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in Venice. … read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's One Great Lie book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • italy
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • 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 Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • 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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18. This Is My Brain in Love

By: I.W. Gregorio

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, … read more

Similar categories in I.W. Gregorio's This Is My Brain in Love book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Last Beekeeper follows twelve-year-old Yolanda Cicerón as she fights to the save the last known… read more

Similar categories in Pablo Cartaya's The Last Beekeeper book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Second Life of Ava Rivers

By: Faith Gardner

3.87

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

On Halloween night twelve years ago, Vera Rivers’ twin sister Ava disappeared. The once-happy River… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's The Second Life of Ava Rivers book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"Love is an excruciating delicacy. Maybe that is its force."

-Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

"Maybe joy is even more potent when you've known the depth of its opposite."

-Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

"Life, it keeps going. That's pretty much all it is when you boil it down: perpetual motion."

-Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

"It would be amazing if there were a reason for all this. A reason for her misfortune, a reason for her captivity and abuse, a reason for her return. I'm skeptical at first as we steep in the contempl…"

-Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

Cover of In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2) by Diana Peterfreund

22. In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2)

By: Diana Peterfreund

3.74

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The second book in a YA trilogy based on the board game CLUE! In the aftermath of Headmaster Bo… read more

Similar categories in Diana Peterfreund's In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2) book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Spiffed up a bit, Vaughn could be cute. Maybe Orchid saw past the trashy clothes. Then again, some people wrote love letters to murderers in prison. There really was no accounting for taste."

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2)

"This morning, at the custodial services meeting with doctor brown, where she informed the staff of Rusty's death, he'd felt sick. Not the usual, slow burning nausea of his life, but a deep, agonizing…"

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2)

"Her lips parted. Vaughn nearly died on the spot. He pulled her in. The guitar strummed its protest. Neither of them cared. She had her hand on his neck, the side of her thumb notched under his jaw, f…"

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2)

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23. And Don't Look Back

By: Rebecca Barrow

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

After her mother’s death, a teen pieces together the truth of her family’s past and what her mom wa… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Barrow's And Don't Look Back book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Julieta and the Romeos by Maria E. Andreu

24. Julieta and the Romeos

By: Maria E. Andreu

3.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

You've Got Mail meets a YA Beach Read with a bookish mystery at its heart in the newest rom-com fro… read more

Similar categories in Maria E. Andreu's Julieta and the Romeos book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. The First Thing About You

By: Chaz Hayden

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself. When fifte… read more

Similar categories in Chaz Hayden's The First Thing About You book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Why are you so excited to have me as a student?"

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

"I guess we’re two lonely nerds sharing our sad stories over lunch."

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

"Normal is a difficult word for me. I would never be normal in the eyes of society. It’s all I’ve wanted, but somehow it chooses everyone else instead of me."

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

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26. Love à la Mode

By: Stephanie Kate Strohm

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Take two American teen chefs, add one heaping cup of Paris, toss in a pinch of romance, and stir. .… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kate Strohm's Love à la Mode book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Chèvre cheesecake with honey-rosemary poached pears and pistachio sablé crust. Who do I think I am? I'm not chèvre and rosemary. I'm chocolate chip cookies. I'm butterscotch pudding. I'm brownies. I'…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"She could picture it now, a huge stack of fluffy pumpkin waffles with maple syrup and spiced cinnamon butter, the perfect breakfast for fall. Something that tasted like crisp, cool air and golden-ora…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"And then Henry saw it. The tart. It was small, so small it could fit in the palm of his hand, and filled with some kind of fruit- apple, probably, or maybe pear or some kind of stone fruit- but the f…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"Hoping to ground herself, Rosie closed her eyes and thought of butter, the way other people probably pictured relaxing tropical idylls. Her favorite thing in the world was creaming butter and sugar, …"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

Cover of Where Secrets Lie by Eva  V. Gibson

27. Where Secrets Lie

By: Eva V. Gibson

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Told in two interwoven timelines—the summer when everything changed, and the summer that changes ev… read more

Similar categories in Eva V. Gibson's Where Secrets Lie book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan

28. Meet Me in Mumbai

By: Sabina Khan

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A novel in two acts—told eighteen years apart—gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mir… read more

Similar categories in Sabina Khan's Meet Me in Mumbai book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul

29. Where the Road Leads Us

By: Robin Reul

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jack is on the verge for leaving for college, but before he does, he wants to track down his es… read more

Similar categories in Robin Reul's Where the Road Leads Us book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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30. Words Composed of Sea and Sky

By: Erica George

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary YA summer Cape Cod romance featuring poets divided by centuries Michaela Dunn, livi… read more

Similar categories in Erica George's Words Composed of Sea and Sky book and Deb Caletti's One Great Lie

  • romance
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I hope that when people look for something that is left of me, all they find is you."

-Erica George, Words Composed of Sea and Sky

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Transform Your Habits

Little Do We Know

Tamara Ireland Stone

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Conspiracy of Us (The Conspiracy of Us, #1)

Maggie Hall

3.75

Transform Your Habits

99 Days

Katie Cotugno

3.61

As You Wish

Chelsea Sedoti

3.93

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27 Best fiction books like Where Secrets Lie by Eva V. Gibson

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Last Seen Leaving

Caleb Roehrig

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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