28 Best contemporary books like Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, …

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1. Nigeria Jones

By: Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Plan A

By: Deb Caletti

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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4. 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
  • family
  • 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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5. 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

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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9. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

  • audiobook
  • race
  • mental health
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10. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Barely Floating

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized sw… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"

-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights

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13. Wings in the Wild

By: Margarita Engle

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This romantic contemporary novel-in-verse tells the love story of two teens fighting for climate ac… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim book and Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

  • cultural
  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
  • audiobook
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15. Salt the Water

By: Candice Iloh

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging auth… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. This Is Not a Personal Statement

By: Tracy Badua

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From rising star Tracy Badua comes a poignant, propulsive standalone YA novel about a teen who, aft… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I grew sideways to get my share of the sun, letting my roots claw into the unwelcoming rock. Withering is not an option."

-Tracy Badua, This Is Not a Personal Statement

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17. Aniana del Mar Jumps In

By: Jasminne Mendez

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel-in-verse by about a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile A… read more

Similar categories in Jasminne Mendez's Aniana del Mar Jumps In book and Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. 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

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  • 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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20. 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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  • 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)

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21. Throwback

By: Maurene Goo

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. My Father, the Panda Killer

By: Jamie Jo Hoang

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing agains… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Jo Hoang's My Father, the Panda Killer book and Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
  • audiobook
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23. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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24. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

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25. An Impossible Thing to Say

By: Arya Shahi

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. My Flawless Life

By: Yvonne Woon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A narrator grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. … read more

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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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27. Mid-Air

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wa… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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28. Come Home Safe

By: Brian G. Buckmire

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Come Home Safe explores … read more

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  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. All You Have to Do

By: Autumn Allen

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a grippin… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Pretending that race isn't a thing anymore is actually another way of being racist."

-Autumn Allen, All You Have to Do

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30. The Jump

By: Brittney Morris

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thri… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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31. The Search for Us

By: Susan Azim Boyer

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“A sharp-witted and illuminating, impressive sophomore novel.” - Isaac Blum, author of the award-no… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family

30 must-read fiction books like Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

Transform Your Habits

Nigeria Jones

Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Plan A

Deb Caletti

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Chaos Theory

Nic Stone

4.16

Transform Your Habits

A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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17 Top fiction books like Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

Transform Your Habits

Nigeria Jones

Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Spin

Rebecca Caprara

4.25

Transform Your Habits

A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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