10 Best realistic fiction books like Don’t Ask If I’m Okay by Jessica Kara

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Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

By: Jessica Kara

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Heartfelt and bittersweet, this coming-of age story explores the tender space of healing where grie…

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Cover of Royal Blood (Royal Blood, #1) by Aimee Carter

1. Royal Blood (Royal Blood, #1)

By: Aimee Carter

4.10

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Royalty, murder and scandal combine in this thrilling new series about an American girl who becomes… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Carter's Royal Blood (Royal Blood, #1) book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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5. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's The Blackwoods book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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6. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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8. All That’s Left to Say

By: Emery Lord

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Ro… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's All That’s Left to Say book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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9. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Claire Forrest's Where You See Yourself book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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11. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • family
  • death
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12. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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13. Bring Me Your Midnight

By: Rachel Griffin

3.97

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a l… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Griffin's Bring Me Your Midnight book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • young adult
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14. Give Me a Sign

By: Anna Sortino

4.11

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's Give Me a Sign book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Garden of the Cursed (Garden of the Cursed, #1) by Katy Rose Pool

15. Garden of the Cursed (Garden of the Cursed, #1)

By: Katy Rose Pool

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling YA fantasy/mystery duology from award-winning author Katy Pool, cursebreaker Marl… read more

Similar categories in Katy Rose Pool's Garden of the Cursed (Garden of the Cursed, #1) book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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16. Girl on Trial

By: Kathleen Fine

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Does doing one bad thing make you a bad person? Sixteen-year-old Emily Keller, known by the medi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Fine's Girl on Trial book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. 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 Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thril… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Harvest House book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • fiction
  • young adult
"In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House

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19. Guardian of Fukushima (Junior Library Guild)

By: Fabien Grolleau

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It was March 11, 2011 when a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami, which, in turn, de… read more

Similar categories in Fabien Grolleau's Guardian of Fukushima (Junior Library Guild) book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

Cover of Don’t Ask If I’m Okay by Jessica  Kara

20. Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

By: Jessica Kara

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Heartfelt and bittersweet, this coming-of age story explores the tender space of healing where grie… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow

21. The Glass Girl

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Glass Girl book and Jessica Kara's Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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