19 Top realistic fiction books like Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

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Color Me In

By: Natasha Diaz

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Debut YA author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this powerful coming-of-a…

"When you spend your life with someone, they become a part of you."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

"When you spend your life with someone, they become a part of you."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

"Bubby's eyes, however, glisten with more hope than anyone with two shreds of morals has felt since Trump was elected president."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

"Bubby's eyes, however, glisten with more hope than anyone with two shreds of morals has felt since Trump was elected president."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Color Me In by Natasha Diaz , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Calling My Name

By: Liara Tamani

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Taja Brown lives with her parents and older brother and younger sister, in Houston, Texas. Taja has… read more

Similar categories in Liara Tamani's Calling My Name book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Murder at Midnight (Midnight Magic, #1)

By: Avi

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medalist and master storyteller Avi returns to Scholastic with a tantalizing prequel to his… read more

Similar categories in Avi's Murder at Midnight (Midnight Magic, #1) book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • fiction
  • young adult

3. Positive: A Memoir

By: Ali Benjamin , Paige Rawl

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and compulsively readable memoir, nineteen-year-old Paige Rawl tells the story o… read more

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4. Obsessed: : A Memoir of My Life with OCD

By: None

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings read… read more

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5. Copper Sun

By: Sharon M. Draper

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left… read more

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6. Stella by Starlight

By: Sharon M. Draper , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery b… read more

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7. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

By: Janae Marks

4.29

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t… read more

Similar categories in Janae Marks's From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1) book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I’d already waited twelve years to speak to Marcus. How much longer would I have to wait for the truth?"

-Janae Marks, From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

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9. Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay

By: Kelly McWilliams

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This sharp-witted, timely novel explores cancel culture, anger, and grief, and challenges the roman… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McWilliams's Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. The Space Between Here & Now

By: Sarah Suk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Suk's The Space Between Here & Now book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2) by Adib Khorram

12. Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2)

By: Adib Khorram

4.26

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In this companion to the award-winning Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Darius suddenly has it all: a … read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2) book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Chip scooped her up mid dash and swung her up to cover her face with kisses. She squealed and laughed and said, “Nooo!"

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2)

"You know how it looks in the mornings in Yazd, when it's still a little foggy, and you can see things but they're kind of greyed out and blurry around the edges?" Sohrab nodded. "That's what it felt …"

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2)

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13. A Taste for Love

By: Jennifer Yen

3.75

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao. To her friends, h… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Yen's A Taste for Love book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Do you know why I was on my phone today?" I jut out my chin. "Do you know my knee is at the perfect angle to inflict bodily injury?"

-Jennifer Yen, A Taste for Love

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14. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Scars Like Wings

By: Erin Stewart

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's Scars Like Wings book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"When a wound’s that deep, it’s the healing that hurts."

-Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

"Their stares tell me I’m different, sure, but they reveal an even deeper truth: I’m less."

-Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

"Funny how when your secret keeper is gone, all those dreams and conversations vanish, too."

-Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

"This is why I don’t need mirrors; I can see my reflection in the eyes of everyone around me. My face always finds me."

-Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

Cover of The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen  Ferguson

16. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

17. Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more

Similar categories in Onyi Nwabineli's Allow Me to Introduce Myself book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Two Tribes

By: Emily Bowen Cohen

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her poignant debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the comple… read more

Similar categories in Emily Bowen Cohen's Two Tribes book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • jewish
Cover of Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

19. Color Me In

By: Natasha Diaz

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Debut YA author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this powerful coming-of-a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Diaz's Color Me In book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • race
  • jewish
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"When you spend your life with someone, they become a part of you."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

"Bubby's eyes, however, glisten with more hope than anyone with two shreds of morals has felt since Trump was elected president."

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

"It's hard to hear people imply that you can't be who you know you are because your reality doesn't jibe with how they've been taught to see the world. It chips away at you; it sent me into the shadow…"

-Natasha Diaz, Color Me In

Cover of What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

20. What About Will

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle … read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's What About Will book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Who Put This Song On? by Morgan  Parker

21. Who Put This Song On?

By: Morgan Parker

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she’s in thera… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's Who Put This Song On? book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. Vinyl Moon

By: Mahogany L. Browne

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Library Binding

A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong B… read more

Similar categories in Mahogany L. Browne's Vinyl Moon book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

23. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Library Binding

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated … read more

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • audiobook
Cover of Love Is a Revolution by Renée  Watson

24. Love Is a Revolution

By: Renée Watson

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a new YA--a love story … read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Love Is a Revolution book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. After the Ink Dries

By: Cassie Gustafson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean when you thought you knew someone? What does it mean when that person is your new… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Gustafson's After the Ink Dries book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. A Good Kind of Trouble

By: Lisa Moore Ramée

4.24

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Moore Ramée's A Good Kind of Trouble book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"And I like saying something, even if I'm saying it quietly."

-Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

"When I think too much about Jace, I feel happy and sad at the same time."

-Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

"That's the problem with a three-way friendship. When one of us is missing, it's hard to talk about anything important."

-Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

"In junior high, we run a mile every week and we're supposed to get faster each time. Logically, there has to be a point when this is physically impossible, but Coach West doesn't seem to think so."

-Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

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27. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.13

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestsell… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Being in a shadow is never just as simple as stepping out of it. Shadows can camouflage a lot of things."

-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

"Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point."

-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

"I dreamed of going to the most remote places on this earth to dig for old bones, older than people. Before humans and their stupid ideas. Before hate. Maybe even before love, too. Dinosaurs just exis…"

-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

"Because it is the hardness of the floor, and the abrupt halt in momentum, and the unyielding nature of the surface, that causes a thing to crack. Even if it is not that thing's fault. And then we tal…"

-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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28. 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

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite

29. Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

By: Maika Moulite

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Co-written by sisters Maika and Maritza Moulite, and told in epistolary style through letters, arti… read more

Similar categories in Maika Moulite's Dear Haiti, Love Alaine book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Never take words lightly...Words make us. They destroy us."

-Maika Moulite, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

"An unforgivable amount of what needs to be said among family always remains unspoken."

-Maika Moulite, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

Cover of The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron

30. The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

By: William Dameron

3.94

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out. Do you know me?… read more

Similar categories in William Dameron's The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • audiobook
Cover of Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

31. Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780316460279.A story of first love, familial expect… read more

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet book and Natasha Diaz's Color Me In

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"On Thursdays, they come here for the best palomas in town, thanks to my substitution of Jamaican tangelos and blood limes for the traditional grapefruit. And on Fridays, they come for half-price pork…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"I would appreciate it if you'd turn it down." He tries to wrestle out of Pen's grasp. "It's a free country." "I'm actually aware of that," Pen says. "Which means you are free to choose self-preservat…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"I list what I had for breakfast. I whisper the ingredients for my signature coconut cake. I take a deep breath, the scents of a thousand shifts at the restaurant tucked into the fabric of the front s…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"We've reached that point in the night when we're slinging more drinks than tacos, and the Frankenstein monsters on our menu- which I'd created specifically for the inebriated- are flooding the line. …"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

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