21 Top realistic fiction books like Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas

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Does My Body Offend You?

By: Mayra Cuevas

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timely story of two teenagers who discover the power of friendship, feminism, and standing up for…

"I can’t go to school like this,"

-Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Anger Is a Gift

By: Mark Oshiro

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A story of resilience and loss, love and family, Mark Oshiro's Anger is a Gift testifies to the vul… read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Anger Is a Gift book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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4. Plan A

By: Deb Caletti

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative … read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's Plan A book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

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6. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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8. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. Every Time You Hear That Song

By: Jenna Voris

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a ques… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Voris's Every Time You Hear That Song book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. And We Rise

By: Erica Martin

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s… read more

Similar categories in Erica Martin's And We Rise book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • social justice
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"history has become a beautiful American lie Overseers rewrite it and always deny people the right to know the ugly truth only tell part of it especially to the youth peace peace peace they always ins…"

-Erica Martin, And We Rise

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12. Sugar Town Queens

By: Malla Nunn

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner and Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait … read more

Similar categories in Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Iveliz Explains It All book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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14. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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16. Live, Laugh, Kidnap

By: Gabby Noone

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Layoverland comes another bitingly clever, laugh-out-loud funny novel, about a g… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Noone's Live, Laugh, Kidnap book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • 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)

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18. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

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20. The New David Espinoza

By: Fred Aceves

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This story from the acclaimed author of The Closest I’ve Come unflinchingly examines steroid abuse … read more

Similar categories in Fred Aceves's The New David Espinoza book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Blood Years

By: Elana K. Arnold

4.32

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's The Blood Years book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas

22. Does My Body Offend You?

By: Mayra Cuevas

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timely story of two teenagers who discover the power of friendship, feminism, and standing up for… read more

Similar categories in Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You? book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I can’t go to school like this,"

-Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?

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23. Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity

By: Angela Velez

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA… read more

Similar categories in Angela Velez's Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. Hopepunk

By: Preston Norton

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A novel about forgiveness and redemption, and about how hope is the ultimate act of rebellion.Growi… read more

Similar categories in Preston Norton's Hopepunk book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Hope is an act of resistance."

-Preston Norton, Hopepunk

"Art means nothing without the people who experience it..."

-Preston Norton, Hopepunk

"To my Homegirl, my Best Friend, my Rock, Hope, Because without her, what the hell have we got?"

-Preston Norton, Hopepunk

"Nothing strengthens the soul like music that speaks to it—especially when you find it on your own. I think there's power in that."

-Preston Norton, Hopepunk

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25. No Filter and Other Lies

By: Crystal Maldonado

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You should know, right now, that I'm a liar. They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's No Filter and Other Lies book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Alma Presses Play

By: Tina Cane

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical novel-in-verse that takes us through the journey of coming of age in New York during the … read more

Similar categories in Tina Cane's Alma Presses Play book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Lucky Unlucky A broken mirror means bad luck and there I was carrying one around on my back all day like a beast of burden so that my steps chimed like pocket change but I was also lucky not to slice…"

-Tina Cane, Alma Presses Play

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27. Fatima Tate Takes the Cake

By: Khadijah VanBrakle

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fatima Tate wants to be a baker AND enjoy some innocent flirting with her hot friend Raheem—but her… read more

Similar categories in Khadijah VanBrakle's Fatima Tate Takes the Cake book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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28. The Minus-One Club

By: Kekla Magoon

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down , Light It Up , and… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's The Minus-One Club book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. Ash's Cabin

By: Jen Wang

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash’s age are more inter… read more

Similar categories in Jen Wang's Ash's Cabin book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult
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30. Good as Gold

By: Candace Buford

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Netflix's Outer Banks will devour this contemporary YA novel with a propulsive mystery abou… read more

Similar categories in Candace Buford's Good as Gold book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. Free Radicals

By: Lila Riesen

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Afghan-American Mafi's sophomore year gets a whole lot more complicated when she accidentally expos… read more

Similar categories in Lila Riesen's Free Radicals book and Mayra Cuevas's Does My Body Offend You?

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

29 best-selling fiction books like Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas

Transform Your Habits

Anger Is a Gift

Mark Oshiro

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes

4.24

Transform Your Habits

We Deserve Monuments

Jas Hammonds

4.30

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Plan A

Deb Caletti

4.02

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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