5 must-read realistic fiction books like North of Beautiful by Justina Chen

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North of Beautiful

By: Justina Chen

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wa…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in North of Beautiful by Justina Chen , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Die for Me (Revenants, #1) by Amy Plum

1. Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

By: Amy Plum

3.98

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart ag… read more

Similar categories in Amy Plum's Die for Me (Revenants, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Well spit on my empty grave if it ain't the attack of the disney princesses!"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate. Your utterly, Vincent."

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

"What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?"

-Amy Plum, Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

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2. Cracked Up to Be

By: Courtney Summers

3.74

Format: 224 pages, ebook

The high price of perfection is one 'Perfect' Parker Fadley always believed she was willing to pay … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's Cracked Up to Be book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The fall takes no time and forever."

-Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

"I was perfect... and then I wasn't."

-Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

"If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't."

-Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

"How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?"

-Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

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3. The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

By: Bree Despain

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Danie… read more

Similar categories in Bree Despain's The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"We are required to forgive everyone."

-Bree Despain, The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

"You should get out of here. Have a good life."

-Bree Despain, The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

"The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken."

-Bree Despain, The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

"Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace."

-Bree Despain, The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

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4. Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

By: L.J. Smith

4.06

Format: 729 pages, Paperback

Includes: Book 1 - Secret Vampire Book 2 - Daughters of Darkness Book 3 - Spellbinder Vampi… read more

Similar categories in L.J. Smith's Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"You're Giving me a...stick" MaryL to a very dangerious vampire"

-L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

"And in the mean time I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady."

-L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

"I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind."

-L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

"Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?"

-L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

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5. North of Beautiful

By: Justina Chen

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wa… read more

Similar categories in Justina Chen's North of Beautiful book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
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6. Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, #1)

By: Ryan Graudin

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial … read more

Similar categories in Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • fiction
  • young adult
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7. Alienated (Alienated, #1)

By: Melissa Landers

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Landers's Alienated (Alienated, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)

By: Shannon Hale

3.63

Format: 371 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Fall of Five (Lorien Legacies, #4) by Pittacus Lore

9. The Fall of Five (Lorien Legacies, #4)

By: Pittacus Lore

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadoria… read more

Similar categories in Pittacus Lore's The Fall of Five (Lorien Legacies, #4) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • fiction
  • young adult
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10. Twenty Boy Summer

By: Sarah Ockler

3.88

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it." "Okay." … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"Anna, you miss him."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"It's rally bad when dads cry."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"How can you say it was all a lie?"

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

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11. Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)

By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Hardcover

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gilbert Murdock's Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Catching Jordan

By: Miranda Kenneally

4.21

Format: None pages,

ONE OF THE BOYS What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jorda… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Kenneally's Catching Jordan book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • chick lit
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1) by Diana Peterfreund

14. For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

By: Diana Peterfreund

3.87

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimatin… read more

Similar categories in Diana Peterfreund's For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1) book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"...You are my compass star." And he was hers."

-Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

"In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be."

-Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

"I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true."

-Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

"She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay here. Stay with me."

-Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

15. Peeps (Peeps, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Last year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that… read more

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16. Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin, #3)

By: Robin LaFevers

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings … read more

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17. When It Happens

By: Susane Colasanti

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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18. 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

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are book and Justina Chen's North of Beautiful

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"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

19. The Most Magnificent Thing

By: Ashley Spires

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unn… read more

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20. Everneath (Everneath, #1)

By: Brodi Ashton

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she's re… read more

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21. Need (Need, #1)

By: Carrie Jones

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark … read more

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Die for Me (Revenants, #1)

Amy Plum

3.98

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Cracked Up to Be

Courtney Summers

3.74

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The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

Bree Despain

3.80

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Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)

L.J. Smith

4.06

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Betrayed (House of Night, #2)

P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast

3.92

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Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever (Thirst, #2)

Christopher Pike

4.08

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Amy Plum

3.98

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Elizabeth Chandler

4.08

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