8 best-selling realistic fiction books like The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

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The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

By: Brian Conaghan

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

`Child experts will tell you that I'm way too young to carry such a burden of responsibility on my …

"Because paper is a thing,"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Because paper is a thing,"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Weight of Water

By: Oliver Jeffers , Sarah Crossan

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Jeffers's The Weight of Water book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"La Cloche Il y a une cloche Dont la sonnerie stridente signale Qu’il est temps de changer de classe. D’un cri elle nous commande. Comme des somnambules on se lève Quand elle résonne ; On fait silence…"

-Oliver Jeffers, The Weight of Water

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2. The Seventh Most Important Thing

By: Shelley Pearsall

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It was a bitterly cold day when Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Pearsall's The Seventh Most Important Thing book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult

3. Silence is Goldfish

By: Annabel Pitcher

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in - to please my parents, to p… read more

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4. Moonrise

By: Sarah Crossan

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds o… read more

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5. Extraordinary Means

By: Robyn Schneider

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well … read more

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6. ...And a Happy New Year? (The Spinster Club, #3.5)

By: Holly Bourne

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Evie, Amber and Lottie are having a new year party to remember. For the first time since leaving co… read more

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7. We Come Apart

By: Sarah Crossan , Brian Conaghan

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From two acclaimed authors comes an emotional story told in verse about friendship, love, and overc… read more

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8. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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9. Guard Your Heart

By: Sue Divin

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland… read more

Similar categories in Sue Divin's Guard Your Heart book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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10. When Shadows Fall

By: Sita Brahmachari

3.70

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A heart-breaking and poignant novel from award-winning author Sita Brahmachari. Kai, Orla and Zak g… read more

Similar categories in Sita Brahmachari's When Shadows Fall book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

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12. Tag, You're Dead

By: Kathryn Foxfield

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are and Good Girls Die First comes … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Foxfield's Tag, You're Dead book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. Cursed

By: Karol Ruth Silverstein

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

14 year old Erica "Ricky" Bloom, is newly diagnosed with a painful chronic illness and pretty pisse… read more

Similar categories in Karol Ruth Silverstein's Cursed book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • illness
"Watching other people walk never used to amaze me, but now it does. It's so effortless for normal people, with all their body parts moving in perfect harmony. I watch a woman rise from a bus stop ben…"

-Karol Ruth Silverstein, Cursed

"It dawns on me that this is probably the first time I've hugged my dad since he moved out, which just makes me hug harder, and suddenly there's so much I want to ask him - like: Wasn't there some way…"

-Karol Ruth Silverstein, Cursed

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14. Toffee

By: Sarah Crossan

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crossan's Toffee book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"I miss you, she says. I miss you and you're right here"

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"I miss you", she says. "I miss you and you're right here"

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"It will rain by noon. And then it will be fine again. It will."

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"No goodbye is forever unless you can erase everything you ever knew about a person and everything you once felt."

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

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15. The Year I Didn't Eat

By: Samuel Pollen

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Some days are normal. Some days, everything is OK, and I eat three square meals, pretty much, even… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Pollen's The Year I Didn't Eat book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Again Again

By: E. Lockhart

3.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud comes a complex novel… read more

Similar categories in E. Lockhart's Again Again book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"Adelaide wished to love someone and be loved back. And to love someone and know that it was him she loved, not some idea of him. Maybe that was two wishes. Maybe it was only one."

-E. Lockhart, Again Again

"And with that recitation, Adelaide Buchwald gave Jack Cavallero her heart. Impulsively, gloriously, openly, she gave it to him, falling in love with someone she did not know, wondering at the curve o…"

-E. Lockhart, Again Again

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17. A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"What good are stories when the monsters are real?"

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

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18. The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

By: Brian Conaghan

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

`Child experts will tell you that I'm way too young to carry such a burden of responsibility on my … read more

Similar categories in Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • illness
"Because paper is a thing,"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"And all I want to do is tell her that she should have no shame, but for some reason I choose not to. I do the tasks impassively, as if she were a mannequin, a non-human. And that fucking shame is all…"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

Cover of A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2) by Laura Steven

19. A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

By: Laura Steven

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Funnier. Ruder. Angrier. Izzy O’Neill is back in the hilarious sequel to The Exact Opposite of Okay… read more

Similar categories in Laura Steven's A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2) book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He wants me to abandon my pain just to alleviate his own. He wants me to do what women have been forced to do for millenia: bury their own hopes and ambitions so the men can chase theirs. And I won't…"

-Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

"I felt a sharp pang of...something. Maybe FOMO [Fear Of Missing Out, if we have any grandmas in the house], but I don't know, it's a little more than that. Why is this bothering me so much? 8.52 p.m.…"

-Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

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20. Two Sides to Every Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who retur… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's Two Sides to Every Murder book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Even strong people need to fall apart."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

"You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

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21. This Is My Truth

By: Yasmin Rahman

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Best friends Amani and Huda are getting nervous about their GCSEs - and their future beyond school,… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Rahman's This Is My Truth book and Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary

15 Best fiction books like The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

Transform Your Habits

The Weight of Water

Oliver Jeffers , Sarah Crossan

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Seventh Most Important Thing

Shelley Pearsall

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Guard Your Heart

Sue Divin

3.97

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19 Best fiction books like Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin

Transform Your Habits

The Exact Opposite of Okay (Izzy O'Neill, #1)

Laura Steven

4.01

Transform Your Habits

October, October

Katya Balen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

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