13 best-selling realistic fiction books like The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones

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The Opposite of Innocent

By: Sonya Sones

3.71

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Poignant and chilling by turns, The Opposite of Innocent is award-winning author Sonya Sones’s most…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Up From the Sea

By: Leza Lowitz

3.96

Format: 272 pages, ebook

A novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal… read more

Similar categories in Leza Lowitz's Up From the Sea book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If you weren't scared, you wouldn't be human, you wouldn't be brave. What do you mean? I ask. If you were fearless, you wouldn't need to overcome it. Bravery means being scared and going forward anyw…"

-Leza Lowitz, Up From the Sea

"If you weren't scared, you wouldn't be human, you wouldn't be brave." "What do you mean?" I ask. "If you were fearless, you wouldn't need to overcome it. Bravery means being scared and going forward …"

-Leza Lowitz, Up From the Sea

2. Dress Codes for Small Towns

By: Courtney C. Stevens

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting t… read more

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3. The Scattering (The Outliers, #2)

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.88

Format: 383 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight raises the stakes in the second book of the he… read more

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4. 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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5. Come Monday (Wild Irish #1)

By: Mari Carr

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Come Monday Mari Carr Wild Irish, Book One Monday's child is fair of face... After the death of her… read more

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6. The Truth About Alice

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. But did you know Alice was sexting Brandon w… read more

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7. 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 Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
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9. Message Not Found

By: Dante Medema

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce au… read more

Similar categories in Dante Medema's Message Not Found book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Let Me List the Ways

By: Sarah White

3.81

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Mackenzie Clark has been best friends with Nolan Walker for as long as she can remember. She’s shar… read more

Similar categories in Sarah White's Let Me List the Ways book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Girl Forgotten

By: April Henry

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case.  Seventeen … read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Girl Forgotten book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
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12. Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel

By: Jessica Walton

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of fallin… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Walton's Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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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 Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. Your Heart My Sky

By: Margarita Engle

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A story of love in a time of hunger inspired by her own family’s struggles during a dark period in … read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's Your Heart My Sky book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Frontera

By: Julio Anta

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with th… read more

Similar categories in Julio Anta's Frontera book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Aftercare Instructions

By: Bonnie Pipkin

3.87

Format: 368 pages, ebook

“Troubled.” That’s seventeen-year-old Genesis according to her small New Jersey town. She finds ref… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Pipkin's Aftercare Instructions book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Now Entering Addamsville

By: Francesca Zappia

3.50

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Zora Novak has been framed. When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies i… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Zappia's Now Entering Addamsville book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'm too asexual for this."

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

"You can have people who call themselves your friends and you can still be alone."

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

"How could you convince people of the truth when they had already decided what version of the story they wanted to believe?"

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

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18. Not So Pure and Simple

By: Lamar Giles

4.05

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she’s f… read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's Not So Pure and Simple book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd told the truth. That shouldn't be wrong, but the truth could be a weapon depending on who used it."

-Lamar Giles, Not So Pure and Simple

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19. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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20. Red Hood

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.45

Format: 368 pages, ebook

You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are … read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's Red Hood book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Sync

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.42

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse a… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Sync book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
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22. With You All the Way

By: Cynthia Hand

3.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ada’s life is a mess. She just caught her boyfriend cheating on her after a humiliating attempt at … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Hand's With You All the Way book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of I Don't Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz

23. I Don't Want To Be Crazy

By: Samantha Schutz

3.78

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder. This is a… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Schutz's I Don't Want To Be Crazy book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I wish I had water. I wish I had something to read."

-Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy

"Everyone pushes and is angry at the people who push them."

-Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy

"Maybe too many new things are happening. Maybe this is just me, and this is how my whole life will be."

-Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy

"I cry and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again"

-Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy

Cover of The Collide (The Outliers #3) by Kimberly McCreight

24. The Collide (The Outliers #3)

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.59

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The much-anticipated final book in New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight’s Outliers … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's The Collide (The Outliers #3) book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
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25. Silent Sister

By: Megan Davidhizar

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious sister's disappearance, her biggest b… read more

Similar categories in Megan Davidhizar's Silent Sister book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones

26. The Opposite of Innocent

By: Sonya Sones

3.71

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Poignant and chilling by turns, The Opposite of Innocent is award-winning author Sonya Sones’s most… read more

Similar categories in Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • poetry
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • banned books
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
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27. The Girl You Thought I Was

By: Rebecca Phillips

3.76

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

No one looking at Morgan Kemper would think she had a secret-at least not one that she's deeply ash… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Phillips's The Girl You Thought I Was book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, … read more

Similar categories in Asha Elias's Pink Glass Houses book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Death at Morning House

By: Maureen Johnson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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30. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

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31. Full Shift: A Graphic Novel

By: Jennifer Dugan

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this queer, supernatural YA graphic novel from the author of Some Girls Do and the illustrator o… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Full Shift: A Graphic Novel book and Sonya Sones's The Opposite of Innocent

  • young adult

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Up From the Sea

Leza Lowitz

3.96

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Plan A

Deb Caletti

4.02

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The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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Message Not Found

Dante Medema

3.98

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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Erin Entrada Kelly

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