13 best-selling realistic fiction books like Boys I Know by Anna Gracia

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Boys I Know

By: Anna Gracia

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*A high school senior navigates messy boys and messier relationships in this bitingly funny and muc…

"After a lifetime of being told I wasn’t enough on my own, I’d begun to believe everyone who had told me the same thing."

-Anna Gracia, Boys I Know

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Boys I Know by Anna Gracia , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

1. I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By: Ann Liang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

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2. My Mechanical Romance

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The … read more

Similar categories in Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Are you into opera or something?"

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"honestly? physics is easy. what's hard is feeling like i want to be invisible all the time."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"You're such a nerd." "Oh, I know. My mom tells me all the time, but apparently nerds are hot now."

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

"Everyone at this school has plans, and then they want me to have plans, and I’m just so overwhelmed by their good intentions that I constantly feel the need to lie down for a solid five minutes befor…"

-Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

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3. Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

By: Jessica Parra

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduation is only a few months away, and so far Rubi Ramos’s recipe for success is on track. *S… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Parra's Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Two silhouettes blocked out the hard sun. The shapes came into focus as my vision adjusted to the light. One of them revealed itself to be a longboard. The other, the smoking-hot, dripping-wet guy wh…"

-Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

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4. Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplas… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Breathe and Count Back from Ten book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You are so a physical person...You're taking up space. You're made of all this matter. What more proof do you need than that?"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

"Like maybe the "magic" isn't just about believing in mermaids; it's about believing peope like me don't exist, Like maybe admitting I've needed crutched dispels the myths we want to believe about peo…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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5. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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6. Meet Me in the Middle

By: Alex Light

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A romance interrupted by tragedy sets two people on different paths in Wattpad superstar Alex Light… read more

Similar categories in Alex Light's Meet Me in the Middle book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I can’t swing right now. I’m obviously very busy doing nothing. And catching up on the chores I’ve spent the past three weeks putting off. I’m just a busy little bee today."

-Alex Light, Meet Me in the Middle

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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 Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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 Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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9. On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's On the Bright Side book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. This Place Is Still Beautiful

By: XiXi Tian

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever.De… read more

Similar categories in XiXi Tian's This Place Is Still Beautiful book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Maybe one day we will find the right words, but at the moment, he just stands with me in this alley, shielded from the sun. Dark, but not alone."

-XiXi Tian, This Place Is Still Beautiful

Cover of Boys I Know by Anna  Gracia

11. Boys I Know

By: Anna Gracia

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*A high school senior navigates messy boys and messier relationships in this bitingly funny and muc… read more

Similar categories in Anna Gracia's Boys I Know book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"After a lifetime of being told I wasn’t enough on my own, I’d begun to believe everyone who had told me the same thing."

-Anna Gracia, Boys I Know

Cover of Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

12. Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Khalilieh's Something More book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

Cover of I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C.F. Rogers

13. I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C.F. Rogers

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tri… read more

Similar categories in Shannon C.F. Rogers's I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. Those Summer Nights

By: Laura Silverman

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new summer job, an ex-bes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Those Summer Nights book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

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

15. 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 Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. The Noh Family

By: Grace K. Shim

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling K-drama inspired debut teen novel by Grace Shim, THE NOH FAMILY introduces irrepressibl… read more

Similar categories in Grace K. Shim's The Noh Family book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Seoulmates by Susan  Lee

17. Seoulmates

By: Susan Lee

3.55

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out—the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then … read more

Similar categories in Susan Lee's Seoulmates book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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18. The Boy You Always Wanted

By: Michelle Quach

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Francine always has a plan. Ollie wants no part of it. Francine loves her grandfather, but their… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Quach's The Boy You Always Wanted book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of I Guess I Live Here Now by Claire Ahn

19. I Guess I Live Here Now

By: Claire Ahn

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A journey to the place where trends are born--Seoul, Korea--where Melody Lee unwillingly moves with… read more

Similar categories in Claire Ahn's I Guess I Live Here Now book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Breakup from Hell by Ann Dávila Cardinal

20. Breakup from Hell

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

3.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Miguela Angeles is tired. Tired of her abuela keeping secrets, especially about her heritage. Tired… read more

Similar categories in Ann Dávila Cardinal's Breakup from Hell book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Loophole by Naz Kutub

21. The Loophole

By: Naz Kutub

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Your wish is granted! This YA debut is equal parts broken-hearted love story, epic myth retelling, … read more

Similar categories in Naz Kutub's The Loophole book and Anna Gracia's Boys I Know

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"No use beating around the bush when the bush is just a bare stump at this point."

-Naz Kutub, The Loophole

"I’d like to think if you can’t really afford to have one family, why be so horny as to have another?"

-Naz Kutub, The Loophole

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

4.18

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My Mechanical Romance

Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.86

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Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

Jessica Parra

3.77

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Breathe and Count Back from Ten

Natalia Sylvester

3.86

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Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

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3.96

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Renée Watson

4.61

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Gene Luen Yang

4.41

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