5 best-selling realistic fiction books like The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young

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The Babysitter Murders

By: Janet Ruth Young

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

An unnerving novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from a form of OCD that makes her th…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Merciless (The Merciless, #1) by Danielle Vega

1. The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)

By: Danielle Vega

3.60

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up an… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Vega's The Merciless (The Merciless, #1) book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'm allowed to be afraid, I remind myself, taking a deep breath of the hot, stale hallway air. I'm just not allowed to run away."

-Danielle Vega, The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)

Cover of They All Fall Down by Roxanne St. Claire

2. They All Fall Down

By: Roxanne St. Claire

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pretty Little Liars meets Final Destination in this YA psychological thriller that will have reader… read more

Similar categories in Roxanne St. Claire's They All Fall Down book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • high school
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Great, Yoda wrote the directions."

-Roxanne St. Claire, They All Fall Down

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3. Piecing Me Together

By: Renée Watson

4.08

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from a… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there's a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same."

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"I write my resolution in black Sharpie marker on top of a background made out of cut-up scriptures, words from newspaper headlines, and numbers from last year's calendar. Be bold. Be brave. Be beauti…"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"Sam leans forward. "But then again I feel bad for feeling bad, if that makes any sense," she says. "It's kind of not fair for us to feel guilty for getting what we deserve. We work hard." It takes a …"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

"My grandmother called it bearing witness. She'd sit on the porch with her sister and talk the night away. Sometimes gossiping, sometimes praying. I'd hear them confide in each other, telling each oth…"

-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

Cover of The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2) by Danielle Vega

4. The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2)

By: Danielle Vega

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Danielle Vega—YA’s answer to Stephen King—once again brings major scares in the spine-tingling sequ… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Vega's The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2) book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young

5. The Babysitter Murders

By: Janet Ruth Young

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has disturbing thoughts sometimes. But for seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon, strange though… read more

Similar categories in Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • high school
  • teen
  • unfinished
  • realistic fiction
  • psychology
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Girls Like Girls

By: Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Trailblazing pop star, actor, and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age r… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Kiyoko's Girls Like Girls book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Dry by Neal Shusterman

7. Dry

By: Neal Shusterman

4.02

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life … read more

Similar categories in Neal Shusterman's Dry book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This isn't the same world it was yesterday."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Mieux vaut avoir tort qu’être mort. — père de Kelton"

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"I imagine her to already be animal, without needing three days to get there."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

Cover of Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell

8. Rules for Being a Girl

By: Candace Bushnell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . . Marin has al… read more

Similar categories in Candace Bushnell's Rules for Being a Girl book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • high school
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules."

-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl

"It starts before you can remember: you learn, as surely as you learn to walk and talk, the rules for being a girl... Put a little color on your face. Shave your legs. Don’t wear too much makeup. Don’…"

-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl

Cover of Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1) by Travis Beacham

9. Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)

By: Travis Beacham

3.98

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all … read more

Similar categories in Travis Beacham's Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1) book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • fiction
Cover of Girl on the Line by Faith   Gardner

10. Girl on the Line

By: Faith Gardner

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she appa… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's Girl on the Line book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of For Your Own Good by Samantha  Downing

11. For Your Own Good

By: Samantha Downing

3.79

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the esteemed Belmont Academy, home to the best and br… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good book and Janet Ruth Young's The Babysitter Murders

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"The feeling was so much worse than regret, which was just a nagging thought in the brain. Remorse was having your insides replaced by worms."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"Guilt doesn't go away. It stays with a person. burrowing itself deep into the soul, where it starts to grow. Almost like love, except it feels horrible instead of good."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

11 must-read fiction books like The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young

Transform Your Habits

The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)

Danielle Vega

3.60

Transform Your Habits

They All Fall Down

Roxanne St. Claire

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2)

Danielle Vega

3.85

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19 best-selling fiction books like Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1) by Travis Beacham

Transform Your Habits

Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)

Travis Beacham

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Alethea

Katrina Day

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Downloaded

Robert J. Sawyer

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)

John Scalzi

4.02

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