21 Top fiction books like Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth

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Give Me Some Truth

By: Eric Gansworth

3.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the re…

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1. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

By: Tom Reiss

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical… read more

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2. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial p… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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3. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

4. The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more

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5. Love Medicine

By: Louise Erdrich

0.00

Format: 126 pages,

Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and… read more

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6. Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

7. Jefferson's Sons

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thom… read more

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8. After The Shot Drops

By: Randy Ribay

4.36

Format: 94 pages, ebook

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for h… read more

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9. The Golden Gate

By: Amy Chua

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Psychology of Time Travel

By: Kate Mascarenhas

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Are you from London?"

-Kate Mascarenhas, The Psychology of Time Travel

"Maybe being in charge of time and space would give anyone a god complex, but she’s such a mean god."

-Kate Mascarenhas, The Psychology of Time Travel

"The days before time travelling, when Grace was free to fall in love with any woman or man she met, were officially over. Ruby was it. After her, there was no one else."

-Kate Mascarenhas, The Psychology of Time Travel

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11. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

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"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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12. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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13. Go with the Flow

By: Lily Williams

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Ab… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Velvet Was the Night

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.51

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He walked and let the rain kiss him."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"In the end, you either fight or lie down to be trampled."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"Cinderellas, dreaming. Maite dreamed too, but nothing came of it."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

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15. Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

By: Justina Ireland

4.16

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"Things were good, and by the time we ended up in Denver we were sharing more than just stories. Unlike so much else in our lives, it felt... easy. I guess falling for someone always is. It's the stay…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"You're a heartbreaker, Katherine Devereaux." "That has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them," I say, blowing on my coffee before sipping it. There's chicory in the brew and I drink it…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

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16. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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18. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.69

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

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19. Dust & Grim

By: Chuck Wendig

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade adventure about rival siblings running a monster mortuary.​Thirteen-year-old Molly d… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. Ghost Lover

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.28

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

“Raw and searching...Taddeo returns with more ruthless explorations of the feminine mystique.” — En… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. A Heart in a Body in the World

By: Deb Caletti

4.28

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that’s what Annabe… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Books make you feel things hard."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"People plus people plus anger is how things can change."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"It's the people who know you and love you that save you."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

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22. Sanctuary

By: Paola Mendoza

4.15

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to f… read more

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  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. The Partition Project

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging and moving middle grade novel, Saadia Faruqi writes about a contemporary Pakistani… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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24. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

By: Emily Bernard

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more

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  • audiobook
"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

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25. The Storyteller

By: Brandon Hobson

3.33

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson, a kaleidoscopic middle-grade adventure that mixes… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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26. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

By: Amy Chua

4.20

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offe… read more

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  • audiobook
"It creates within America a virtuous Us and a demonized Them."

-Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

"But American group blindness abroad is also rooted in some of our noblest ideals: tolerance, equality, individualism, the power of reason to triumph over irrational hatred, and the conviction that al…"

-Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

"America's elites today, especially progressive ones, often don't realize how judgmental they are. They disdain tacky things, and, not coincidentally, those tacky things--fake tans, big hair, pro wres…"

-Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

"The peril we face today is not only that America might fail to live up to its promise, but that Americans might stop believing in that promise or the need to fight for it. The increasing belief on th…"

-Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

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27. Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is a word Mateo Garcia and his younger sister Sophie have been taught to fear for as long as … read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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28. Apple in the Middle

By: Dawn Quigley

3.66

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racia… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • native american
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Coming Up Cuban: Rising Past Castro’s Shadow

By: Sonia Manzano

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Pura Belpré Honoree and Emmy-award winning actor Sonia Manzano--best known as "Maria" from Ses… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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30. 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

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. Give Me Some Truth

By: Eric Gansworth

3.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the re… read more

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  • romance
  • music
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • native american
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

11 Best contemporary books like Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth

Transform Your Habits

Ban This Book

Alan Gratz

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Simon Sort of Says

Erin Bow

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Go with the Flow

Lily Williams

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Lover

Lisa Taddeo

3.28

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13 best-selling audiobook books like Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

Transform Your Habits

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Jesmyn Ward

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Heavy

Kiese Laymon

4.48

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Call Me American: A Memoir

Abdi Nor Iftin

4.53

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Enemies in the Orchard

Dana VanderLugt

4.49

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