14 must-read realistic fiction books like How We Ricochet by Faith Gardner

Cover of How We Ricochet by Faith   Gardner

How We Ricochet

By: Faith Gardner

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Intimate, impactful, and incisive, this newest novel from Faith Gardner, critically acclaimed autho…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in How We Ricochet by Faith Gardner , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of 21 måder at dø by Sarah Engell

1. 21 måder at dø

By: Sarah Engell

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Hvor lang tid tager det at ga fra at vaere en af klassens mest populaere piger til at vaere en soci… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Engell's 21 måder at dø book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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2. 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 Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of The Words We Keep by Erin  Stewart

3. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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4. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Blackwoods book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. All That’s Left to Say

By: Emery Lord

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's All That’s Left to Say book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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6. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplas… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Breathe and Count Back from Ten book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You are so a physical person...You're taking up space. You're made of all this matter. What more proof do you need than that?"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

"Like maybe the "magic" isn't just about believing in mermaids; it's about believing peope like me don't exist, Like maybe admitting I've needed crutched dispels the myths we want to believe about peo…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

Cover of Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

8. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • audiobook
  • mental health
Cover of Flirting with Fate by J.C. Cervantes

9. Flirting with Fate

By: J.C. Cervantes

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ava Granados will never forgive herself for being late to her beloved nana's deathbed. But due to a… read more

Similar categories in J.C. Cervantes's Flirting with Fate book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I knew the exact moment I loved her. You can always recognize the love when it belongs to you."

-J.C. Cervantes, Flirting with Fate

Cover of After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

10. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) by Olivia A. Cole

11. 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 Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • 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)

Cover of The Wolves Are Waiting by Natasha Friend

12. The Wolves Are Waiting

By: Natasha Friend

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Natasha Friend comes a compelling investigation of sexual harassment and … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Friend's The Wolves Are Waiting book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley

13. The Name She Gave Me

By: Betty Culley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more

Similar categories in Betty Culley's The Name She Gave Me book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"

-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me

Cover of The Right Side of Reckless by Whitney D. Grandison

14. The Right Side of Reckless

By: Whitney D. Grandison

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

He’s never met a rule he didn’t break… She’s followed the rules her whole life… When they meet, one… read more

Similar categories in Whitney D. Grandison's The Right Side of Reckless book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of The Getaway by Lamar Giles

15. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's The Getaway book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Those Summer Nights by Laura  Silverman

16. Those Summer Nights

By: Laura Silverman

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new summer job, an ex-bes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Those Summer Nights book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Pieces of Me by Kate  McLaughlin

17. Pieces of Me

By: Kate McLaughlin

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength i… read more

Similar categories in Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of How We Ricochet by Faith   Gardner

18. How We Ricochet

By: Faith Gardner

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Intimate, impactful, and incisive, this newest novel from Faith Gardner, critically acclaimed autho… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) by Jeff  Bishop

19. A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1)

By: Jeff Bishop

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You’ve Reached Sam meets John Hughes in a funny and heartfelt debut about a boy’s delirious summert… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Bishop's A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Wakacje pod morzem by Marta Bijan

20. Wakacje pod morzem

By: Marta Bijan

3.67

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

To mogłoby być kolejne zwyczajne lato nad polskim morzem, gdyby nie Hotel Bursztyn. Leo prawie n… read more

Similar categories in Marta Bijan's Wakacje pod morzem book and Faith Gardner's How We Ricochet

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook

19 Top fiction books like How We Ricochet by Faith Gardner

Transform Your Habits

21 måder at dø

Sarah Engell

3.41

Transform Your Habits

A Year to the Day

Robin Benway

3.49

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The Words We Keep

Erin Stewart

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Blackwoods

Brandy Colbert

3.79

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5 must-read poetry books like The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley

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Something Like Home

Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

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The Road to After

Rebekah Lowell

4.42

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Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

Olivia A. Cole

4.30

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