11 best-selling realistic fiction books like This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams

Cover of This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams

This Train Is Being Held

By: Ismée Amiel Williams

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When private school student Isabelle Warren first meets Dominican-American Alex Rosario on the down…

"Chrissy shakes her head. “Listen, sometimes you don’t know a person’s whole story."

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"Chrissy shakes her head. “Listen, sometimes you don’t know a person’s whole story."

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"Alex stares out onto the empty platform. “Do you hate me? For not answering your messages?"

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"Alex stares out onto the empty platform. “Do you hate me? For not answering your messages?"

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Top Ten by Katie Cotugno

1. Top Ten

By: Katie Cotugno

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ryan McCullough and Gabby Hart are the unlikeliest of friends. Introverted, anxious Gabby would rat… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Top Ten book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"God, the only thing worse than having a panic attack was trying to have one in secret while someone else was watching."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"If you liked being alone all the time, that would be one thing. But I don't actually think you do. I think you're just letting yourself be scared."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle."

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

"She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably neve…"

-Katie Cotugno, Top Ten

Cover of This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

2. This Song Will Save Your Life

By: Leila Sales

3.90

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski’s strong suit. All throughout her life, she’s been th… read more

Similar categories in Leila Sales's This Song Will Save Your Life book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We all want things that aren't good for us."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"I feel sometimes like … there are all these rules. Just to be a person"

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

3. This Is Where the World Ends

By: Amy Zhang

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it's been ever since elementary school, when Janie Viv… read more

Similar categories in Amy Zhang's This Is Where the World Ends book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

Cover of Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller by Meredith Ireland

4. Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller

By: Meredith Ireland

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Today Tonight Tomorrow meets A Pho Love Story in this whip-smart young adult novel about a girl who… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Ireland's Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan

5. A Show for Two

By: Tashie Bhuiyan

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mina Rahman has a plan for her future: • Finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition, … read more

Similar categories in Tashie Bhuiyan's A Show for Two book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Home is where you find love"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"We're raised to see our parents as infallible, to believe they're incapable of making mistakes– but what about when they do? When they keep making them? What about when their mistakes hurt us?"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"I'm not sure how old I was when I realized my parents were never going to love me the way I wanted them to– that their love was conditional, dependent on my own behavior and whether I fit their defin…"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

"This place is my home. These people are my home. I have memories in the cracks of every sidewalk, good and bad. Everywhere I go, I'll see the faces of people who have cherished me. I can run and run …"

-Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

Cover of Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira

6. Once Upon a Quinceañera

By: Monica Gomez-Hira

3.61

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever… read more

Similar categories in Monica Gomez-Hira's Once Upon a Quinceañera book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Honestly...welcome to the world the rest of us live in, where we're trying our best and still end up just mostly OK, and somehow manage to get up in the morning in spite of that."

-Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

Cover of Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto

7. Didn't See That Coming

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.66

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identi… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Didn't See That Coming book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Library of Shadows by Rachel   Moore

8. The Library of Shadows

By: Rachel Moore

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn’t u… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Moore's The Library of Shadows book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. French Kissing in New York

By: Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

3.50

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A charming, high-energy romance in the city that never sleeps about a girl who can't wait to be a p… read more

Similar categories in Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau's French Kissing in New York book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of This Is Why We Lie by Gabriella  Lepore

10. This Is Why We Lie

By: Gabriella Lepore

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in Gardiners Bay has a secret. When Jenna Dallas and Adam Cole find Colleen O'Dell's bo… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Lepore's This Is Why We Lie book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Turns out blood isn't thicker than water, after all. All of us here, we're in this together. We'll go down in flames, together, too. A burning inferno. Screaming in the night about the things that ca…"

-Gabriella Lepore, This Is Why We Lie

Cover of Love à la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm

11. Love à la Mode

By: Stephanie Kate Strohm

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Take two American teen chefs, add one heaping cup of Paris, toss in a pinch of romance, and stir. .… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kate Strohm's Love à la Mode book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Chèvre cheesecake with honey-rosemary poached pears and pistachio sablé crust. Who do I think I am? I'm not chèvre and rosemary. I'm chocolate chip cookies. I'm butterscotch pudding. I'm brownies. I'…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"She could picture it now, a huge stack of fluffy pumpkin waffles with maple syrup and spiced cinnamon butter, the perfect breakfast for fall. Something that tasted like crisp, cool air and golden-ora…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"And then Henry saw it. The tart. It was small, so small it could fit in the palm of his hand, and filled with some kind of fruit- apple, probably, or maybe pear or some kind of stone fruit- but the f…"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

"Hoping to ground herself, Rosie closed her eyes and thought of butter, the way other people probably pictured relaxing tropical idylls. Her favorite thing in the world was creaming butter and sugar, …"

-Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

Cover of Crossing the Line by Simone Elkeles

12. Crossing the Line

By: Simone Elkeles

3.41

Format: 352 pages, ebook

To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Simone Elkeles's Crossing the Line book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Time of Our Lives by Emily Wibberley

13. Time of Our Lives

By: Emily Wibberley

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A boy desperate to hold on, a girl ready to let go. Fitz Holton waits in fear for the day his si… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's Time of Our Lives book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wrong Kind of Weird by James Ramos

14. The Wrong Kind of Weird

By: James Ramos

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cameron Carson has a secret. A secret with the power to break apart his friend group.Cameron Carson… read more

Similar categories in James Ramos's The Wrong Kind of Weird book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Jessica Spotswood

15. Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

By: Jessica Spotswood

3.67

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic st… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Spotswood's Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • fiction
  • young adult
" The moon is full, and even the stars are scared of me. "

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"He can't fill the empty spaces in her because there are none."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"Nothing is yours! The world wasn't made for you. The world was made ."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"There are too many people in this world who would rather see a woman burn than wield power."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Cover of Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) by Abigail Hing Wen

16. Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Return to the sparkling world of Loveboat, this time with Pearl Wong, on an entirely new, romantic,… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay  Shore

17. Rules for Ghosting

By: Shelly Jay Shore

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Rule #1: They can't speak. Rule #2: They can't move. Rule #3: They can't hurt you. Ezra Fri… read more

Similar categories in Shelly Jay Shore's Rules for Ghosting book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams

18. This Train Is Being Held

By: Ismée Amiel Williams

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When private school student Isabelle Warren first meets Dominican-American Alex Rosario on the down… read more

Similar categories in Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Chrissy shakes her head. “Listen, sometimes you don’t know a person’s whole story."

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"Alex stares out onto the empty platform. “Do you hate me? For not answering your messages?"

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"Because it doesn’t matter where you come from. If you work hard enough, you can do anything. Become anyone."

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

"I always take the same car now, fifth one from the front. I pretend it's the best car, least crowded, closest to where I'm going. Even when I have to walk half a platform to get on and off. I pretend…"

-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held

Cover of What's in a Kiss? by Lauren Kate

19. What's in a Kiss?

By: Lauren Kate

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers “what if” romance… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Kate's What's in a Kiss? book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5) by Lana Harper

20. Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5)

By: Lana Harper

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A magical romantic comedy sparkling with spells and witchcraft. To save both her town and the woma… read more

Similar categories in Lana Harper's Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5) book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Twelve Graves of Christmas (A Jane Ladling Mystery, #3.5) by Gena Showalter

21. Twelve Graves of Christmas (A Jane Ladling Mystery, #3.5)

By: Gena Showalter

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Jane Ladling presents the perfect fail-proof recipe to spice up the holidays. Or ruin them. Baker’s… read more

Similar categories in Gena Showalter's Twelve Graves of Christmas (A Jane Ladling Mystery, #3.5) book and Ismée Amiel Williams's This Train Is Being Held

  • romance

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Katie Cotugno

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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales

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3.78

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Colby Wilkens

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Emma R. Alban

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