5 Top realistic fiction books like If Only by Carole Geithner

Cover of If Only by Carole Geithner

If Only

By: Carole Geithner

3.96

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A stunning debut about one girl's journey through loss and grief. Corinna's world is crushed after …

"Yours till submarines have screen doors."

-Carole Geithner, If Only

"Yours till submarines have screen doors."

-Carole Geithner, If Only

"They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna"

-Carole Geithner, If Only

"They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna"

-Carole Geithner, If Only

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in If Only by Carole Geithner , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

1. Amal Unbound

By: Aisha Saeed

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indent… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Saeed's Amal Unbound book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"The thing is- those books made my days bearable."

-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

"Regret, I was learning, was the sharpest knife there was."

-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

"If everyone decided nothing would change, nothing ever would."

-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

"You always have a choice. Making choices even when they scare you because you know it's the right thing to do - that's bravery."

-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

Cover of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 by Mary Pope Osborne

3. My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941

By: Mary Pope Osborne

3.54

Format: None pages,

In a diary that brings to life the dramatic happenings on the home front during World War II, Madel… read more

Similar categories in Mary Pope Osborne's My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

4. The Sky Is Everywhere

By: Jandy Nelson

4.36

Format: 512 pages,

Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive T… read more

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5. By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

By: Julie Anne Peters , None

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determin… read more

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6. A Dog's Purpose (A Dog's Purpose, #1)

By: W. Bruce Cameron

4.33

Format: 700 pages,

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of sever… read more

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7. Juniors

By: Kaui Hart Hemmings

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lea Lane has lived in between all her life. Part Hawaiian, part Mainlander. Perpetual new girl at s… read more

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8. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

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9. The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee

By: Barry Jonsberg

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Everyone has problems. Candice has solutions. Candice Phee isn't your typical twelve- year-old. She… read more

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10. The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1)

By: Kazu Kibuishi

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbi… read more

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11. Girl in Pieces

By: Kathleen Glasgow

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifet… read more

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12. The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident—two g… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • fiction
  • young adult
"At some time you have to choose to live in the light."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

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13. How It Feels to Float

By: Helena Fox

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

Cover of Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

14. Other Words for Home

By: Jasmine Warga

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's Other Words for Home book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"Americans are obsessed with murder"

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

Cover of Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

15. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

Similar categories in Huda Fahmy's Huda F Are You? book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

Cover of Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

16. Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen ye… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Never Ever Getting Back Together book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5) by Shannon Messenger

17. Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

By: Shannon Messenger

4.25

Format: 764 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 8.5 in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series delivers … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Messenger's Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5) book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • romance
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Love, Keefe"

-Shannon Messenger, Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

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18. The Haunting

By: Natasha Preston

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pound… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Haunting book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • fiction
  • young adult
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19. Perfect on Paper

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Perfect on Paper: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Perfect on Paper book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"You'd be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst."

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

"But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't …"

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

Cover of The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto

20. The Obsession

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.73

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Lo… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's The Obsession book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Erotomania"

-Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Obsession

Cover of If Only by Carole Geithner

21. If Only

By: Carole Geithner

3.96

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A stunning debut about one girl's journey through loss and grief. Corinna's world is crushed after … read more

Similar categories in Carole Geithner's If Only book and Carole Geithner's If Only

  • romance
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • juvenile
"Yours till submarines have screen doors."

-Carole Geithner, If Only

"They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna"

-Carole Geithner, If Only

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Aisha Saeed

4.18

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Judy Blume

4.05

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Mary Pope Osborne

3.54

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The Cheerleaders

Kara Thomas

3.75

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4.05

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Ann Patchett

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