12 must-read realistic fiction books like The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

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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…

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle

1. Conditions of a Heart

By: Bethany Mangle

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Talia Hibbert and Lynn Painter comes a funny and unflinchingly honest story about a tee… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Mangle's Conditions of a Heart book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Promchanted

By: Morgan Matson

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. Stella Griffin doesn’t b… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Promchanted book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Whenever I tried to wear a low ponytail, I inevitably looked like a Founding Father. And not the attractive ones, like Hamilton."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"Promise,' Nisha had agreed. She'd held out her pinky and we'd linked them to get and shaken, entering what every fourth-grader knows is a binding contract."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"If you like someone, I realized in one incandescent flash, you liked them in a disgusting dungeon next to a literal pile of bones. You liked them everywhere. Because it wasn't about the setting-it wa…"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"You can't stop people from things that hurt and are hard, Stella. You can't reroute to avoid pain at all costs. You can't plan your way around everything. Sometimes, you just have to go through with …"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

Cover of I Wish You Would by Eva Des Lauriers

3. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Love, Off the Record by Samantha Markum

4. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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

Similar categories in Emma Lord's The Getaway List book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

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

Cover of The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

7. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • new adult
  • 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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8. Rules for Rule Breaking

By: Talia Tucker

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced i… read more

Similar categories in Talia Tucker's Rules for Rule Breaking book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Cancelled by Farrah Penn

9. Cancelled

By: Farrah Penn

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With its clever snark and searing perspective, Cancelled is a funny, fearless novel about the reali… read more

Similar categories in Farrah Penn's Cancelled book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala

10. The Boyfriend Wish

By: Swati Teerdhala

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A charming romantic comedy about a South Indian American teen girl who makes a wish upon a flower f… read more

Similar categories in Swati Teerdhala's The Boyfriend Wish book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

12. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Even If It Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn

13. Even If It Breaks Your Heart

By: Erin Hahn

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A heart-buckling ride of a romance by beloved author Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart is abo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Hahn's Even If It Breaks Your Heart book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Six More Months of June by Daisy   Garrison

14. Six More Months of June

By: Daisy Garrison

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A romantic debut about the exhilarating highs and messy lows that swirl together when high school c… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Garrison's Six More Months of June book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Kristin Dwyer's The Atlas of Us book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Misdirection of Fault Lines by Anna  Gracia

16. The Misdirection of Fault Lines

By: Anna Gracia

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants goes to the US Open in an emotionally honest and openhearted nove… read more

Similar categories in Anna Gracia's The Misdirection of Fault Lines book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Wild About You by Kaitlyn Hill

17. Wild About You

By: Kaitlyn Hill

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two total opposites. One race through the Great Outdoors. In this grumpy-sunshine teen romance from… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Hill's Wild About You book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor

18. The Calculation of You and Me

By: Serena Kaylor

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks st… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's The Calculation of You and Me book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Finally Fitz

By: Marisa Kanter

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bisexual teen girl tries to make her ex jealous by faking an Instagram romance that leads to surp… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's Finally Fitz book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Hearts Overboard by Becky Dean

20. Hearts Overboard

By: Becky Dean

4.04

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Set sail with this banter-filled rivals-to-lovers romance between a STEM-loving girl and a jock guy… read more

Similar categories in Becky Dean's Hearts Overboard book and Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I love a good s’more"

-Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard

"He dumped you in public on the last day of school. You do not need him."

-Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard

"I glared at Tanner, who mouthed at me to ‘smile,’ because a guy telling a girl to do that was guaranteed to end well."

-Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard

"I'd be fine without either of them. I didn't need a guy. But was it wrong to enjoy spending time with one who made me happy and brought out parts of me I didn't know existed?"

-Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard

Cover of Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

21. 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 Ellen O'Clover's The Someday Daughter

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

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

20 Best fiction books like The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

Transform Your Habits

Conditions of a Heart

Bethany Mangle

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Promchanted

Morgan Matson

3.69

Transform Your Habits

I Wish You Would

Eva Des Lauriers

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Love, Off the Record

Samantha Markum

4.16

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18 Top fiction books like Hearts Overboard by Becky Dean

Transform Your Habits

Love, Off the Record

Samantha Markum

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Witty in Pink

Erica George

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Six More Months of June

Daisy Garrison

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee

Ellen Oh

3.46

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