When We Were Them
By: Laura Taylor Namey
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton had a friendship that was everything. When they …
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1. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
By: Stephanie Oakes
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
With a harrowing poetic voice, this contemporary page-turner is perfect for fans of Laurie Halse An… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"That’s all religion is. Strategy."-Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
"Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore."-Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
"When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed."-Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
"Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it."-Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
2. Seven Ways We Lie
By: Riley Redgate
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
Seven students. Seven (deadly) sins. One secret. Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone's standar… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Accident Season
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A bewitching, dark and beautiful debut novel about a girl living in the shadow of a mysterious curs… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
4. The Names They Gave Us
By: Emery Lord
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it all falls apart, who can you believe in? Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until … read more
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5. Some Kind of Happiness
By: Claire Legrand
3.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
THINGS FINLEY HART DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT * Her parents, who are having problems. (But they pre… read more
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6. You're Welcome, Universe
By: Whitney Gardner
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for t… read more
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7. Some Girls Are
By: Courtney Summers
3.88
Format: 255 pages, ebook
Classic Courtney Summers with a brand new look and exclusive bonus material! This ebook edition of … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you."-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
"I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in my head, because fuck."-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
"I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling."-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
"There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-…"-Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
8. The Disenchantments
By: Nina LaCour
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the… read more
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9. Once and for All
By: Sarah Dessen
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As bubbly as champagne and delectable as wedding cake, Once and for All, Sarah Dessen's thirteenth … read more
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10. Love Letters for Joy
By: Melissa See
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A new LGBTQIA+ romance story by the author of You, Me, and Our Heartstrings. Less than a year away… read more
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- romance
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
12. A Year to the Day
By: Robin Benway
3.49
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
It’s been a year—a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones—holidays, birthdays, everything witho… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. The Witch and the Vampire
By: Francesca Flores
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Francesca Flores's The Witch and the Vampire is a queer Rapunzel retelling where a witch and a vamp… read more
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- romance
- young adult
14. 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
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. 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
- 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
16. The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. All That’s Left to Say
By: Emery Lord
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. Not Like Other Girls
By: Meredith Adamo
4.13
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
By: Ellen O'Clover
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A clever, charming, and poignant debut novel about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dre… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"We're always just looking for each other."-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
"You will become people you can’t even fathom yet. I wish I could be here to meet every version of you, Rosie. I know I would love each one more than the last"-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
"We heard each other in that language between two people who’ve never known a life without the other in it. He didn’t have to speak to tell me he was upset. I didn’t have to show him my hurt for him t…"-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
20. The King Is Dead
By: Benjamin Dean
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this YA romantic thriller, James—the shy, handsome, mixed-race heir to the British throne—must c… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
21. The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss: A Novel
By: Amy Noelle Parks
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Caleb has always assumed that when she was ready for romance, Evie would choose him. Because he is … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
22. The No-Girlfriend Rule
By: Christen Randall
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose fora… read more
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- romance
- young adult romance
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
23. The Map from Here to There (The Start of Me and You, #2)
By: Emery Lord
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Emery Lord crafts a gorgeous story of friendship and identity, daring to ask: What… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare."-Emery Lord, The Map from Here to There (The Start of Me and You, #2)
"I wondered how we looked to the rest of the world. Young and silly, probably. I often had the distinct feeling that strangers watched us with annoyance, teenage girls with cotton candy lives. They co…"-Emery Lord, The Map from Here to There (The Start of Me and You, #2)
24. We Can Be Heroes
By: Kyrie McCauley
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Kyrie McCauley, author of If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So…"-Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes
25. The Ballad of Darcy and Russell
By: Morgan Matson
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Darcy believes in love at first sight. Even though it’s never happened to her, she’s spent her whol… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
26. Before We Were Blue
By: E.J. Schwartz
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Get healthy on their own—or stay sick together? At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
27. When We Were Them
By: Laura Taylor Namey
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton had a friendship that was everything. When they … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)
By: Linda Cheng
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced t… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
29. Eat Your Heart Out
By: Kelly deVos
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A YA thriller about a kickass group of teens battling a ravenous group of zombies. In the next f… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
30. Another First Chance
By: Robbie Couch
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
31. I Will Never Leave You
By: Kara A. Kennedy
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfr… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- contemporary
