12 best-selling realistic fiction books like Little Universes by Heather Demetrios

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Little Universes

By: Heather Demetrios

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change. When a ts…

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1. Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

By: Michael Grant

4.09

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

1942. World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are st… read more

Similar categories in Michael Grant's Front Lines (Front Lines, #1) book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries."

-Michael Grant, Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

"Could you see yourself sitting down to tea with these girls? Will it surprise you to learn that one of them went on to gun down three unarmed German prisoners? Will it shock you to learn that one lit…"

-Michael Grant, Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

"The feature that makes people look at her twice, sometimes with suspicious glances, is her eyes. They are too large, wide-set, slanted a bit. And they judge, those eyes do, they watch and they take n…"

-Michael Grant, Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

"Listen, sweetheart. Don't be a hero. [...] If they actually go through with this hare-brained notion and send you into the fighting, there will come a time when you'll have a choice between staying i…"

-Michael Grant, Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

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2. Ramona Blue

By: Julie Murphy

3.91

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then, it’s… read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Ramona Blue book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I will survive, because I have survived."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"The idea that I'm someone's best friend fills my rib cage with summer."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"At what point does another person's extraordinary become your ordinary?"

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

Cover of Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2) by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra

3. Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

May the best dancer win. June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan’s most… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2) book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. The Night We Said Yes (The Night We Said Yes, #1)

By: Lauren Gibaldi

3.57

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A fun, romantic read, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Susane Colasanti! What happens when Matt… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Gibaldi's The Night We Said Yes (The Night We Said Yes, #1) book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Maybe One Day

By: Melissa Kantor

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Zoe and her best friend, Olivia, have always had big plans for the future, none of which included O… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Kantor's Maybe One Day book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming bac…"

-Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

"I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like …"

-Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

"I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so f…"

-Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

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6. Everything All at Once

By: Katrina Leno

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Lottie Reeves has always struggled with anxiety, and when her beloved Aunt Helen dies, Lottie begin… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Everything All at Once book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Royally Lost

By: Angie Stanton

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dragged on a family trip to Europe's ancient cities, Becca wants nothing more than to go home. Trap… read more

Similar categories in Angie Stanton's Royally Lost book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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8. What I Lost

By: Alexandra Ballard

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and he… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Ballard's What I Lost book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Katie Cotugno, Julie   Murphy, Sara Shepard, Nina LaCour, Kass Morgan, Emery Lord, Nicola Yoon, Katharine McGee, Dhonielle Clayton, Jocelyn Davies, Meredith Russo, Ibi Zoboi, Sona Charaipotra

9. Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout , Katie Cotugno , Julie Murphy , Sara Shepard , Nina LaCour , Kass Morgan , Emery Lord , Nicola Yoon , Katharine McGee , Dhonielle Clayton , Jocelyn Davies , Meredith Russo , Ibi Zoboi , Sona Charaipotra

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start som… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Armentrout's Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Fireworks

By: Katie Cotugno

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

From Katie Cotugno, bestselling author of 99 Days, comes Fireworks--about a girl who is competing w… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Fireworks book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Starry Eyes

By: Jenn Bennett

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl's way-too-ordinary lif… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Bennett's Starry Eyes book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Summer Bird Blue

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

2.00

Format: 88 pages,

Seventeen-year-old Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everythi… read more

Similar categories in Akemi Dawn Bowman's Summer Bird Blue book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary

13. Coming Up for Air

By: Miranda Kenneally

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Swim. Eat. Shower. School. Snack. Swim. Swim. Swim. Dinner. Homework. Bed. Repeat. All of Maggie's … read more

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14. Wanderlost

By: Jen Malone

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Not all those who wander are lost, but Aubree Sadler most definitely is on this novel's whirlwind t… read more

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15. Lola Rose

By: Poppy D. Chusfani , Jacqueline Wilson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

When life with Jayni's violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum… read more

Similar categories in Poppy D. Chusfani's Lola Rose book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

16. Friday Brown

By: Vikki Wakefield

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can't speak… read more

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17. 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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18. The Geography of You and Me

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment bui… read more

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19. The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing, #1)

By: Ashley Elston

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

She's been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Ol… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing, #1) book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

20. I See London, I See France (I See London, I See France, #1)

By: Sarah Mlynowski

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I see London, I see France, I see Sydney's underpants. Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect sum… read more

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21. The Best Lies

By: Sarah Lyu

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?"

-Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

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22. Just Breathe

By: Cammie McGovern

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of A Step Toward Falling and Say What You Will comes a new YA … read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Just Breathe book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. 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

Similar categories in Robin Benway's A Year to the Day book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. Wherever She Goes

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller ab… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Wherever She Goes book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. What I Like About You

By: Marisa Kanter

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can... but in the real world, it's more … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. W…"

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

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26. The Falling Girls

By: Hayley Krischer

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shade and Jadis are everything to each other. They share clothes, toothbrushes, and even matching s… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Krischer's The Falling Girls book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"We're not babes. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

"We're not babies. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

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27. Early Departures

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, delivers another smart, funny, and powerful stand… read more

Similar categories in Justin A. Reynolds's Early Departures book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The truth is you can never truly make amends for the hurt you cause; you apologize, you try to atone, at best the scars lighten but they don't disappear. You live with the pain that you pained someon…"

-Justin A. Reynolds, Early Departures

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28. Little Universes

By: Heather Demetrios

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change. When a ts… read more

Similar categories in Heather Demetrios's Little Universes book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. The Speed of Falling Objects

By: Nan Fischer

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of When Elephants Fly comes an exceptional new novel about falling down, risking ev… read more

Similar categories in Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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30. The Majesties

By: Tiffany Tsao

3.29

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting tale about the secrets and betrayals that can accompany exorbitant wealth, two sis… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Tsao's The Majesties book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Breath Like Water

By: Anna Jarzab

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, … read more

Similar categories in Anna Jarzab's Breath Like Water book and Heather Demetrios's Little Universes

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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