9 Top realistic fiction books like How You Ruined My Life by Jeff Strand

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How You Ruined My Life

By: Jeff Strand

3.43

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Rod and his cousin take family rivalry to a new level in this rollicking comedy from Jeff Strand. …

"I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life."

-Jeff Strand, How You Ruined My Life

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in How You Ruined My Life by Jeff Strand , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. We All Fall Down

By: Natalie D. Richards

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Theo's always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He's obsessed over that decision. And… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's We All Fall Down book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. The Dirt Diary (The Dirt Diary, #1)

By: Anna Staniszewski

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

WANTED: Maid for the most popular kids in 8th grade. Cleaning up after the in-crowd gets Rachel … read more

Similar categories in Anna Staniszewski's The Dirt Diary (The Dirt Diary, #1) book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family

3. The Big Blow

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

"The sea had turned black as a dutch oven, the sky the color of gangrene, and between sea and sky t… read more

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4. The Secret Science of Magic

By: Melissa Keil

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

A captivating novel about two extraordinary teens, and the unsolvable problem of life after high sc… read more

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5. Taming the Star Runner

By: S.E. Hinton

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Travis is the epitome of cool, even when he's in trouble. But when he's sent to stay with his uncle… read more

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6. Heretics Anonymous

By: Katie Henry

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Clubmeets Saved!in this hilarious and heartfelt YA debut by author Katie Henry about … read more

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7. Girl Out of Water

By: Laura Silverman

3.88

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish … read more

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8. Shallow Graves

By: Kali Wallace

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Breezy remembers leaving the party: the warm, wet grass under her feet, her cheek still stinging fr… read more

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9. The Handyman

By: Bentley Little

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

Daniel Martin has never forgotten his childhood encounters with Frank Watkins, the man who built hi… read more

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10. Now a Major Motion Picture

By: None

2.97

Format: 304 pages,

Fandom and first love collide for Iris on the film set for her grandmother's famous high-fantasy tr… read more

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11. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

By: John Fleischman

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was… read more

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12. Tex

By: S.E. Hinton , Miguel Martinez-Lage

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his ho… read more

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13. Stinger

By: Robert McCammon

3.90

Format: 542 pages, Kindle Edition

McCammon's novel "takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Stinger book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Graveyard Shift (24/7 Demon Mart, #1)

By: D.M. Guay

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

A frightfully funny novel for fans of Tom Holt and Christopher Moore. Lloyd Wallace is the most … read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
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15. Monster Burger (24/7 Demon Mart, #2)

By: D.M. Guay

4.24

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

One loser, one karate-chopping bombshell, and one talking cockroach stand between YOU and the zombi… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
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16. Full Disclosure

By: Camryn Garrett

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a community that isn't always understanding, an HIV-positive teen must navigate fear, disclosure… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. August and Everything After

By: Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Summer on the New Jersey shore offers Quinn a new start at life and love, but only if she can come … read more

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  • music
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Shadow Sister

By: Lily Meade

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. Some Kind of Hate

By: Sarah Darer Littman

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accid… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Not Hungry

By: Kate Karyus Quinn

3.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The sequel ALWAYS JUNE is now available! June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no o… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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21. Four Days of You and Me

By: Miranda Kenneally

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A new swoon-worthy romance following a couple's love story on the same date over four years. Ev… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Kenneally's Four Days of You and Me book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. Road Tripping with Pearl Nash

By: Poppy Nwosu

4.24

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friend… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of How You Ruined My Life by Jeff Strand

24. How You Ruined My Life

By: Jeff Strand

3.43

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Rod and his cousin take family rivalry to a new level in this rollicking comedy from Jeff Strand. … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • music
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not…"

-Jeff Strand, How You Ruined My Life

Cover of Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

25. Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

By: Jeff Zentner

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures--and … read more

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  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"No one ever says on their deathbed they wish they’d loved fewer people."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"When someone leaves you, maybe you get a reason and maybe you don’t. I don’t know which is better."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"Remember that Florida is a land of weirdos and bizarre happenings, and conduct yourselves accordingly."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

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26. Bloodhound

By: Thomas Page McBee

3.45

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In the tradition of M. Night Shyamalan and Stephen King, Bloodhound is a coming-of-age suspense dra… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Bloodhound book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Please Don't Hug Me

By: Kay Kerr

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A funny-serious own-voices story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other peo… read more

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  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Don't Let Them Get You Down by Philip Fracassi

29. Don't Let Them Get You Down

By: Philip Fracassi

4.17

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

DON’T LET THEM GET YOU DOWN is a deeply dark novel about depression and the madness inside each one… read more

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  • fiction
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30. When It Drops

By: Alex Dyson

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Caleb Clifford has earbuds, not real buds. And he prefers it that way. 1. They always give him w… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dyson's When It Drops book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • music
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"In a week of agony and darkness, this spark, this glimmer of hope, might have been what pulled him through."

-Alex Dyson, When It Drops

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31. The October Boys

By: Adam Millard

3.31

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

HALLOWEEN, 1988 A gang of twelve-year-old boys are trick-or-treating in London. Off in the distanc… read more

Similar categories in Adam Millard's The October Boys book and Jeff Strand's How You Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • young adult

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We All Fall Down

Natalie D. Richards

4.25

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The Dirt Diary (The Dirt Diary, #1)

Anna Staniszewski

3.93

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Stinger

Robert McCammon

3.90

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The Graveyard Shift (24/7 Demon Mart, #1)

D.M. Guay

4.10

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Mark Cain

4.12

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Dave Turner

4.30

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Mark Cain

4.18

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A. Lee Martinez

4.12

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