10 best-selling realistic fiction books like Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin

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Pieces of Me

By: Kate McLaughlin

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength i…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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3. The Other Lola

By: Ripley Jones

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least? In the mo… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's The Other Lola book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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4. Brighter Than the Sun

By: Daniel Aleman

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibili… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aleman's Brighter Than the Sun book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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5. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

Similar categories in Kate Leth's Mall Goth book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

Cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

6. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Someone Is Always Watching

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blythe and her friends—Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya—have always been a tight … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Someone Is Always Watching book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. Those Pink Mountain Nights

By: Jen Ferguson

3.94

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In her remarkable second novel following her acclaimed debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, which… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's Those Pink Mountain Nights book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • 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 Pieces of Me by Kate  McLaughlin

10. Pieces of Me

By: Kate McLaughlin

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength i… read more

Similar categories in Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • audiobook
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11. Last Girl Breathing

By: Court Stevens

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, one teen girl must examine a tragic event… read more

Similar categories in Court Stevens's Last Girl Breathing book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. When It All Syncs Up

By: Maya Ameyaw

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dan… read more

Similar categories in Maya Ameyaw's When It All Syncs Up book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of An Appetite for Miracles by Laekan Zea Kemp

13. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's An Appetite for Miracles book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

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14. An Impossible Thing to Say

By: Arya Shahi

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, … read more

Similar categories in Arya Shahi's An Impossible Thing to Say book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of This Is the Way the World Ends by Jen  Wilde

15. This Is the Way the World Ends

By: Jen Wilde

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school’s epic masqu… read more

Similar categories in Jen Wilde's This Is the Way the World Ends book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Then Everything Happens at Once by M.E. Girard

16. Then Everything Happens at Once

By: M.E. Girard

3.12

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From Lambda award–winning and acclaimed author of Girl Mans Up, M-E Girard, comes a stand-alone sex… read more

Similar categories in M.E. Girard's Then Everything Happens at Once book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Dragging Mason County

By: Curtis Campbell

3.53

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the t… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Campbell's Dragging Mason County book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. Of Light and Shadow

By: Tanaz Bhathena

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Of Light and Shadow is a novel about magic, mayhem, love, and betrayal--the story of a bandit and a… read more

Similar categories in Tanaz Bhathena's Of Light and Shadow book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Side of Infinity

By: Joan F. Smith

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel by Joan F. Smith, where a teen… read more

Similar categories in Joan F. Smith's The Other Side of Infinity book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I craved learning more about him, impatient to entangle my memories with my future experiences. To feel. Desperate to fall in love. But more important, most important: desperate to keep him alive."

-Joan F. Smith, The Other Side of Infinity

Cover of The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent by Ann Jacobus

20. The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent

By: Ann Jacobus

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Finalist for both the 2023 California Book Award for YA Literature and the Northern California Book… read more

Similar categories in Ann Jacobus's The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Iz the Apocalypse

By: Susan Currie

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! A fierce voice longs to break free. A spark ignites… read more

Similar categories in Susan Currie's Iz the Apocalypse book and Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me

  • young adult

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