8 Top realistic fiction books like My Box-Shaped Heart by Rachael Lucas

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My Box-Shaped Heart

By: Rachael Lucas

3.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A powerful YA novel about an unlikely friendship between two struggling teens—and how they come tog…

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1. The Nowhere Girls

By: Amy Reed

4.27

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a c… read more

Similar categories in Amy Reed's The Nowhere Girls book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

-Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

"What Erin wants to do with pain is fix it, make it go away, and sometimes that's not what other people want."

-Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

"We should be sitting in a circle and taking turns talking. We need to be organized. We need to be planning our subversive action. We need—"

-Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

"But unlike Data, Erin is more than capable of feeling. She feels too much. She is a raw nerve and the world is always trying to touch her."

-Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

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2. Here We Are Now

By: Jasmine Warga

3.49

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Despite sending him letters ever since she was thirteen, Taliah Abdallat never thought she'd ever r… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's Here We Are Now book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"... he thought Sufjan Stevens was overrated, which was basically a declaration of war, as far as I was concerned"

-Jasmine Warga, Here We Are Now

"There's nothing more humiliating than feeling sorry for yourself while watching other people feel sorry for you too."

-Jasmine Warga, Here We Are Now

"I think the problem is that sometimes when we love someone, we see a certain version of them. and we get attached to that version. Convince ourselves that that's the only version, true version."

-Jasmine Warga, Here We Are Now

"I believe strongly that we all have multiple versions of ourselves. And the true test of love is learning to accept all of those versions, even when it's messy. Actually, especially when it's messy."

-Jasmine Warga, Here We Are Now

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3. Starry Eyes

By: Jenn Bennett

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl's way-too-ordinary lif… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Bennett's Starry Eyes book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. The Start of Me and You

By: Emery Lord

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

It's been a year since it happened--when Paige Hancock's first boyfriend died in an accident. After… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lord's The Start of Me and You book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Close Your Eyes

By: Nicci Cloke

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Southfield High School is oh so normal, with its good teachers, its bad, and its cliques. But despi… read more

Similar categories in Nicci Cloke's Close Your Eyes book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

6. SweetFreak

By: Sophie McKenzie

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

Get ready for a brand new edge-of-your-seat read from bestselling author Sophie McKenzie! When ever… read more

Similar categories in Sophie McKenzie's SweetFreak book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Two Boys Kissing

By: David Levithan

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and C… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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8. The 26-Storey Treehouse

By: Terry Denton , Andy Griffiths

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

If you're like most readers, you're probably wondering just how Andy and Terry met. Well, it's a lo… read more

Similar categories in Terry Denton's The 26-Storey Treehouse book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
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9. Asking For It

By: Louise O'Neill

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more

Similar categories in Louise O'Neill's Asking For It book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

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

10. 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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11. Only We Know

By: Simon Packham

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

What is the secret of Lauren's past? Lauren's family have moved house very suddenly, and she and he… read more

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12. Truth or Dare

By: Non Pratt

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

How far is too far when it comes to the people you love? Claire Casey hates being the centre of att… read more

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13. Seven Days

By: Eve Ainsworth

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This bold, compelling and topical story about bullying is told from the perspective of the bully an… read more

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14. All About Mia

By: Lisa Williamson

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One family, three sisters. GRACE, the oldest: straight-A student. AUDREY, the youngest: future Olym… read more

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15. ...And a Happy New Year? (The Spinster Club, #3.5)

By: Holly Bourne

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Evie, Amber and Lottie are having a new year party to remember. For the first time since leaving co… read more

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16. Girl, Missing (Girl, Missing, #1)

By: Sophie McKenzie

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that sh… read more

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17. This Raging Light

By: Estelle Laure

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Can the best thing happen at the worst time? Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills t… read more

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18. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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19. There Are Things I Can't Tell You

By: Edako Mofumofu

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kasumi and Kyousuke are polar opposites when it comes to personality. Kasumi is reserved, soft-spok… read more

Similar categories in Edako Mofumofu's There Are Things I Can't Tell You book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.12

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Bitter (Pet, #0.5) book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

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21. Girls with Sharp Sticks (Girls with Sharp Sticks, #1)

By: Suzanne Young

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Enough plot twists to give a reader whiplash.” —Cosmopolitan From New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Young's Girls with Sharp Sticks (Girls with Sharp Sticks, #1) book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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22. Baby Love

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.21

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequ… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Baby Love book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
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23. I Have Lost My Way

By: Gayle Forman

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A powerful display of empathy and friendship from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of If I … read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's I Have Lost My Way book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They can't explain it. But that doesn't make it any less real."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

"To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

"They may be complete strangers, with different lives and different problems, but there in that examination room they are measuring sadness the same way. They are measuring it in loss."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

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24. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

By: Abby Norman

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more

Similar categories in Abby Norman's Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

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25. Lord of the Fly Fest

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA … read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's Lord of the Fly Fest book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It's a condition I have where I don't care about things."

-Goldy Moldavsky, Lord of the Fly Fest

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26. A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

By: Laura Steven

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Funnier. Ruder. Angrier. Izzy O’Neill is back in the hilarious sequel to The Exact Opposite of Okay… read more

Similar categories in Laura Steven's A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2) book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He wants me to abandon my pain just to alleviate his own. He wants me to do what women have been forced to do for millenia: bury their own hopes and ambitions so the men can chase theirs. And I won't…"

-Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

"I felt a sharp pang of...something. Maybe FOMO [Fear Of Missing Out, if we have any grandmas in the house], but I don't know, it's a little more than that. Why is this bothering me so much? 8.52 p.m.…"

-Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless (Izzy O'Neill, #2)

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27. Something Certain, Maybe (Beautiful Broken Things, #3)

By: Sara Barnard

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A powerful novel about first love, friendships and embracing the uncertainty of an unknowable futur… read more

Similar categories in Sara Barnard's Something Certain, Maybe (Beautiful Broken Things, #3) book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. This Is My Truth

By: Yasmin Rahman

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Best friends Amani and Huda are getting nervous about their GCSEs - and their future beyond school,… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Rahman's This Is My Truth book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • abuse
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29. My Box-Shaped Heart

By: Rachael Lucas

3.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A powerful YA novel about an unlikely friendship between two struggling teens—and how they come tog… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • abuse
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30. The Boy I Am

By: K.L. Kettle

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

They say we’re dangerous. But we’re not that different. Jude is running out of time. Once a year… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Kettle's The Boy I Am book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult
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31. Getting Away with Murder

By: Kathryn Foxfield

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Cabin in the Woods meets Squid Game - a girl playing a game with a supercomputer unwittingly traps … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Foxfield's Getting Away with Murder book and Rachael Lucas's My Box-Shaped Heart

  • fiction
  • young adult

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