5 must-read realistic fiction books like Home and Away by Cam Montgomery

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Home and Away

By: Cam Montgomery

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Tasia Quirk is young, Black, and fabulous. She's a senior, she's got great friends, and a supportiv…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Home and Away by Cam Montgomery , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Orphan Master's Son

By: Adam Johnson

4.07

Format: 443 pages, Hardcover

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influentia… read more

Similar categories in Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • contemporary
"Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers, for we bring important updates!"

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

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2. Orbiting Jupiter

By: Gary D. Schmidt

3.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost kill… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Orbiting Jupiter book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. The Girls I've Been

By: Tess Sharpe

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank he… read more

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • queer
"I hate the whole “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else's."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you'll find one who hits back."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

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4. We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.76

Format: 384 pages, ebook

At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their … read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"If we're not all free, none of us are free."

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

"Think about all the crimes your precious government condones, not just the ones they punish. Then you can talk to me about who the real criminals are. If we're not all free, none of us are free. You …"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

"From up here, you couldn't see that people were starving. Couldn't see the ancient wall with the armed sentries stationed along it. Couldn't see the mothers' hands reaching, begging for a scrap of so…"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

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5. Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"This whole time she's swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

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6. Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more

Similar categories in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

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7. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.57

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

"We all have a animal double, Englishman."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

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8. Too Soon for Adiós

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Too Soon for Adiós book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • family
  • contemporary
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9. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • family
  • contemporary
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10. The Perfect Wife

By: J.P. Delaney

3.67

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

The perfect life. The perfect love. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how … read more

Similar categories in J.P. Delaney's The Perfect Wife book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • mystery
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11. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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12. In the Time of the Butterflies

By: Julia Alvarez

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

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13. Drunk on Love

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An intoxicating and sparkling new romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Ma… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Guillory's Drunk on Love book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • contemporary
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14. Running

By: Natalia Sylvester

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz’s father runs for president, Mari starts to see h… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Running book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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15. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

By: Talia Hibbert

3.72

Format: 336 pages, ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud sto… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Are you worried about me, love?"

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"She's a pop of scarlet in the November fog."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"You're allowed anywhere you want, as long as you're right next to me."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

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16. The Three of Us

By: Ore Agbaje-Williams

2.96

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more

Similar categories in Ore Agbaje-Williams's The Three of Us book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • contemporary
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17. All Girls

By: Emily Layden

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England p… read more

Similar categories in Emily Layden's All Girls book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • mystery
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. Parachutes

By: Kelly Yang

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Parachutes book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Welcome to America! Where everyone walks around in gym clothes and nobody goes to the gym!"

-Kelly Yang, Parachutes

"Is this what the rest of my life is going to be like? Moments of happiness punctured by the memory of what happened, like a bomb which can detonate at any time."

-Kelly Yang, Parachutes

Cover of Home and Away by Cam Montgomery

19. Home and Away

By: Cam Montgomery

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Tasia Quirk is young, Black, and fabulous. She's a senior, she's got great friends, and a supportiv… read more

Similar categories in Cam Montgomery's Home and Away book and Cam Montgomery's Home and Away

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • sports
  • queer

14 Best contemporary books like Home and Away by Cam Montgomery

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

4.07

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Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt

3.83

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The Girls I've Been

Tess Sharpe

4.06

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Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

4.24

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21 Top fiction books like The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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The Dos and Donuts of Love

Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

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