10 Top realistic fiction books like People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

Cover of People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

People Kill People

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.86

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Someone will shoot. And someone will die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins tac…

"The future expected you. Now it mourns for you."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

"The future expected you. Now it mourns for you."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

"It doesn't matter how the gun fell into the wrong hands. It only matters that it did."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

"It doesn't matter how the gun fell into the wrong hands. It only matters that it did."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever (Thirst, #2)

By: Christopher Pike

4.08

Format: 581 pages, Paperback

Includes: Phantom Evil Thirst Creatures of Forever Tears roll over my face. I touch them with… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Pike's Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever (Thirst, #2) book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Calling Maggie May (Anonymous Diaries) by Anonymous

2. Calling Maggie May (Anonymous Diaries)

By: Anonymous

3.80

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

A dark and edgy first-person cautionary tale about how one girl’s seemingly minor choices quickly s… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Calling Maggie May (Anonymous Diaries) book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Lucy in the Sky

By: Anonymous

4.04

Format: 202 pages,

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.The a… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Lucy in the Sky book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass by Niki Burnham, Ellen Hopkins, Cinda Williams Chima, Megan Kelley Hall, Gail Giles, Micol Ostow, Susan Hart Lindquist, Terri  Clark, Mary Bryan

4. Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

By: Niki Burnham , Ellen Hopkins , Cinda Williams Chima , Megan Kelley Hall , Gail Giles , Micol Ostow , Susan Hart Lindquist , Terri Clark , Mary Bryan

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and… read more

Similar categories in Niki Burnham's Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Hit and Run

By: Lurlene McDaniel

3.79

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery

6. The Book of David

By: Anonymous

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

His secret is his downfall. A riveting, first-person tale in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy… read more

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7. Letting Ana Go

By: Anonymous

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction… read more

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8. Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more

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9. A Dog Like Daisy

By: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maxmeets A Dog Called Homelessin this sweet and poignant middle grade novel told from the humorous,… read more

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10. I Stop Somewhere

By: T.E. Carter

3.71

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Ellie Frias disappeared long before she vanished. Tormented throughout middle school, Ellie begins … read more

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11. Girl on the Line

By: Faith Gardner

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she appa… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's Girl on the Line book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

By: Tony Keith

4.19

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in vers… read more

Similar categories in Tony Keith's How the Boogeyman Became a Poet book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • contemporary
Cover of The Asylum Confessions: Murder for Hire (The Asylum Confession Files Book 8) by Jack Steen

13. The Asylum Confessions: Murder for Hire (The Asylum Confession Files Book 8)

By: Jack Steen

4.30

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions and this time t… read more

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14. The Collectors

By: A.S. King

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-M… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's The Collectors book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of Breaking Bailey (Anonymous Diaries) by Anonymous

15. Breaking Bailey (Anonymous Diaries)

By: Anonymous

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, this heart-wrenching story chronicles a girl’… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Breaking Bailey (Anonymous Diaries) book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

16. People Kill People

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.86

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Someone will shoot. And someone will die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins tac… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • poetry
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • banned books
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"The future expected you. Now it mourns for you."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

"It doesn't matter how the gun fell into the wrong hands. It only matters that it did."

-Ellen Hopkins, People Kill People

Cover of Ode to My First Car by Robin Gow

17. Ode to My First Car

By: Robin Gow

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

By the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions , this YA contemporary sapphic roma… read more

Similar categories in Robin Gow's Ode to My First Car book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • poetry
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) by Olivia A. Cole

18. 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

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • poetry
  • 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)

Cover of Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies by Nicole Angemi

19. Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies

By: Nicole Angemi

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Anatomy for all by “the Internet’s Most Famous Coroner” (Vice) From “A is for Abdomen” to “W is for… read more

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20. Four Letter Word

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-pounding thriller, Izzy and her family welcome an exchange student into their home. B… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's Four Letter Word book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Anxiety was the great silencer."

-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word

"[She] glanced at the gray, damp sky and wondered if love made you believe that even the grossest days were beautiful."

-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word

Cover of Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry by Alex Ritany

21. Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry

By: Alex Ritany

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean when your best friend is dead and your instinct is relief? A stunningly immersive… read more

Similar categories in Alex Ritany's Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry book and Ellen Hopkins's People Kill People

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

12 must-read fiction books like People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

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Christopher Pike

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Lindsey Fitzharris

3.44

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Donald P. Ryan

3.81

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Carla Valentine

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