10 Top realistic fiction books like Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

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Chronically Dolores

By: Maya Van Wagenen

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called…

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1. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Under This Red Rock book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

By: Gretchen Schreiber

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schre… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Schreiber's Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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5. 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 Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. The No-Girlfriend Rule

By: Christen Randall

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose fora… read more

Similar categories in Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Cancelled

By: Farrah Penn

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With its clever snark and searing perspective, Cancelled is a funny, fearless novel about the reali… read more

Similar categories in Farrah Penn's Cancelled book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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 Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's On the Bright Side book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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10. 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 Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of There Is a Door in This Darkness by Kristin Cashore

11. There Is a Door in This Darkness

By: Kristin Cashore

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Cashore's There Is a Door in This Darkness book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

By: Matthew Hubbard

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A queer coming-of-age about three teenage boys in small town Alabama who set out to get revenge on … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hubbard's The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The best revenge is believing in yourself."

-Matthew Hubbard, The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

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13. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's The Breakup Lists book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • disability
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Where Wolves Don't Die book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Gut Reaction

By: Kirby Larson

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Author Kirby Larson, and her daughter, debut author, Quinn Wyatt, pen this story that explores wha… read more

Similar categories in Kirby Larson's Gut Reaction book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • disability
  • contemporary
Cover of Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

17. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

Cover of Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

18. Chronically Dolores

By: Maya Van Wagenen

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called… read more

Similar categories in Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • young adult contemporary
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
Cover of One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

19. One Killer Problem

By: Justine Pucella Winans

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and thoroughly queer mystery thriller with a touch of camp, for fans of Kara Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's One Killer Problem book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and Maya Van Wagenen's Chronically Dolores

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

18 Top fiction books like Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

Transform Your Habits

Under This Red Rock

Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Not Like Other Girls

Meredith Adamo

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

Gretchen Schreiber

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Canto Contigo

Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

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20 Top fiction books like Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

Transform Your Habits

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

Transform Your Habits

Louder Than Hunger

John Schu

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Thirsty

Jas Hammonds

4.16

Transform Your Habits

On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

4.20

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