7 best-selling realistic fiction books like Dig by A.S. King

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Dig

By: A.S. King

4.16

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malco…

"Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the people on the plane, I guess."

-A.S. King, Dig

"Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the people on the plane, I guess."

-A.S. King, Dig

"Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the people on the plane, I guess."

-A.S. King, Dig

"Existence is wasted on the living." "You're stoned." She takes another pull of the cigarette. "What do you think happens when we die? You believe in Heaven and Hell and all that shit?" We're outside of a Catholic church, sitting on a bench next to a statue of Mary. "This is the closest I ever got to a church. Wasn't even baptized," I say. "So?"

-A.S. King, Dig

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Dig by A.S. King , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

By: Aaron Starmer

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"To sell a book, you need a description on the back. So here's mine: My name is Fiona Loomis. I was… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Starmer's The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1) book and A.S. King's Dig

  • magical realism
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"War will change people."

-Aaron Starmer, The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

"Do you want to be saved?"

-Aaron Starmer, The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

"He’s not a bad guy, deep down,"

-Aaron Starmer, The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

"People see what they want to see."

-Aaron Starmer, The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

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2. The Midnight Dress

By: Karen Foxlee

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does sh… read more

Similar categories in Karen Foxlee's The Midnight Dress book and A.S. King's Dig

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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3. Zom-B

By: Darren Shan

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Zom-B is a radical new series about a zombie apocalypse, told in the first person by one of its vic… read more

Similar categories in Darren Shan's Zom-B book and A.S. King's Dig

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
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4. The Thing About Luck

By: Cynthia Kadohata , Julia Kuo

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Summer knows that kouun means good luck" in Japanese, and this year her family has had none. Just w… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Kadohata's The Thing About Luck book and A.S. King's Dig

  • fiction
  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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5. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

By: E. Lockhart

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly… read more

Similar categories in E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks book and A.S. King's Dig

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. Where Things Come Back

By: John Corey Whaley

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and pai… read more

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7. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

By: Laura Shovan

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Laura Shovan's engaging, big-hearted debut is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transfor… read more

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8. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

By: Isabel Quintero

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Named to Kirkus ReviewsBest Books of 2014 Named to School Library JournalBest Books of 2014 Gabi He… read more

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9. Bone Gap

By: Laura Ruby

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps--gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disa… read more

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10. Aftermath

By: Clara Kensie

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Charlotte survived four long years as a prisoner in the attic of her kidnapper, sustained only by d… read more

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11. Her Right Foot

By: Dave Eggers , Shawn Harris

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

"I want to hold this book in one hand and a torch in the other and stand on an island someplace so … read more

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12. Wild Blue Yonder

By: Nelson Dániel , Mike Raicht , Zach Howard , Austin Harrison , None , None

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

Take to the skies in this thrilling, new, action-adventure sci-fi tale! In the near future, mankind… read more

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13. Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: Amy Sarig King

4.21

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sarig King's Attack of the Black Rectangles book and A.S. King's Dig

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

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14. Kde si sa vydala, tam si mlieko pýtaj

By: Júlia Marcinová

4.36

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Mám doma malý smaltovaný krúžok. Používal sa na ozdobu látkoveho obrúska pri sviatočne prestretom s… read more

Similar categories in Júlia Marcinová's Kde si sa vydala, tam si mlieko pýtaj book and A.S. King's Dig

  • fiction
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15. The Year We Fell From Space

By: Amy Sarig King

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The deeply affecting next book from acclaimed author Amy Sarig King. Liberty Johansen is going t… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The sky puts everything in perspective."

-Amy Sarig King, The Year We Fell From Space

"Polaris always points north. It's one of the only things I can count on. Every night it returns to the sky and does its job. If people were more like Polaris, maybe things wouldn't be so complicated."

-Amy Sarig King, The Year We Fell From Space

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16. A Heart in a Body in the World

By: Deb Caletti

4.28

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that’s what Annabe… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Books make you feel things hard."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"People plus people plus anger is how things can change."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"It's the people who know you and love you that save you."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

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17. There Is a Door in This Darkness

By: Kristin Cashore

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling a… read more

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  • magical realism
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more

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19. Dig

By: A.S. King

4.16

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malco… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's Dig book and A.S. King's Dig

  • young adult contemporary
  • magical realism
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the peopl…"

-A.S. King, Dig

"Existence is wasted on the living." "You're stoned." She takes another pull of the cigarette. "What do you think happens when we die? You believe in Heaven and Hell and all that shit?" We're outside …"

-A.S. King, Dig

"I've never understood white people who can't admit they're white. I mean, white isn't just a color. And maybe that's the problem for them. White is a passport. It's a ticket. The world is a white amu…"

-A.S. King, Dig

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20. Wild and Crooked

By: Leah Thomas

3.93

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago … read more

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's Wild and Crooked book and A.S. King's Dig

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Rufus + Syd

By: Robin Lippincott

3.96

Format: 204 pages, ebook

Vermillion, Georgia, is the small town that time forgot, or at least that’s how it feels to fifteen… read more

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  • young adult
  • contemporary

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The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1)

Aaron Starmer

3.81

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Karen Foxlee

3.44

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Zom-B

Darren Shan

3.80

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The Thing About Luck

Cynthia Kadohata , Julia Kuo

4.43

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Brandon Mull

4.01

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The Seventh Most Important Thing

Shelley Pearsall

3.50

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Ban This Book

Alan Gratz

4.41

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A.S. King

3.87

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