7 Top realistic fiction books like Trigger by N. Griffin

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Trigger

By: N. Griffin

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this “brisk and brutal…harrowing and intriguing” ( Kir…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Trigger by N. Griffin , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. A Girl Called Fearless (A Girl Called Fearless, #1)

By: Catherine Linka

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An Indie Next Pick! Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Linka's A Girl Called Fearless (A Girl Called Fearless, #1) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that so…"

-Catherine Linka, A Girl Called Fearless (A Girl Called Fearless, #1)

"Says Juliet love wields the scissors love is the escape love blows through pinholes love refuses to die love holds its breathe though the absence of oxygen love defines the weight of the pillow slips…"

-Catherine Linka, A Girl Called Fearless (A Girl Called Fearless, #1)

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2. When Light Left Us

By: Leah Thomas

3.60

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

When the Vasquez siblings’ father left, it seemed nothing could remedy the absence in their lives .… read more

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's When Light Left Us book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

3. Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles, #2)

By: Alyxandra Harvey

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It's been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix barely survived the French Revolution. Now she's made h… read more

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4. Bystander

By: James Preller

4.15

Format: None pages,

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5. If I Grow Up

By: Todd Strasser

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"WHEN YOU GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, THERE WERE NO CHOICES. NO GOOD ONES, AT LEAST." In the Frederic… read more

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6. Ashes of Twilight (Ashes Trilogy, #1)

By: Kassy Tayler

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth cent… read more

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7. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“Jane” was just your typical 17-year-old getting ready to start her senior year. She had a part-tim… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Faria Stolarz's Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. Any Sign of Life

By: Rae Carson

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole wor… read more

Similar categories in Rae Carson's Any Sign of Life book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • survival
  • fiction
  • young adult
"I wanted to do something important like that. Something that would change the world for everyone who came after me."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

"My smidge of hope is a fragile thing, a tiny waving flame in a vast landscape of reeking darkness. I will shelter it, treasure it, coax it, because the alternative is despair, and I don't do despair."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

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10. These Deadly Games

By: Diana Urban

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the po… read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's These Deadly Games book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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11. The Hills of Estrella Roja

By: Ashley Robin Franklin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In this delightfully creepy and unapologetically queer horror romp of a graphic novel, sometimes dr… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Robin Franklin's The Hills of Estrella Roja book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery
  • young adult
  • horror
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12. 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 N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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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13. You and Me at the End of the World

By: Brianna Bourne

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is no ordinary apocalypse...Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is e… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Bourne's You and Me at the End of the World book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Words and looks shouldn't be able to make things in another person move."

-Brianna Bourne, You and Me at the End of the World

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14. Dustborn

By: Erin Bowman

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Delta of Dead River sets out to rescue her family from a ruthless dictator rising to power in the W… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bowman's Dustborn book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • survival
  • fiction
  • young adult
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15. Buzzing

By: Samuel Sattin

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself desp… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Sattin's Buzzing book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3)

By: A.F. Steadman

4.55

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The Island always wins… Skandar and his sister Kenna are finally both at the Eyrie, but tensions… read more

Similar categories in A.F. Steadman's Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
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17. The Cherished

By: Patricia Ward

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Claire Legrand, Rory Power, and Danielle Vega comes a visceral horror thriller in the v… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Ward's The Cherished book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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18. Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony, #1)

By: J. Elle

3.85

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

“Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her… read more

Similar categories in J. Elle's Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony, #1) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Moms raised a diamond." "And diamonds don't crack."

-J. Elle, Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony, #1)

"Don't let the past chain you, make it your strength."

-J. Elle, Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony, #1)

"But not knowing how to fix something isn’t an excuse not to try."

-J. Elle, Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony, #1)

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19. Hearts Still Beating

By: Brooke Archer

4.00

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA n… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Archer's Hearts Still Beating book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • young adult
  • horror
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20. A Wilderness of Stars

By: Shea Ernshaw

3.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

If magic lives anywhere, it’s in the stars… Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidde… read more

Similar categories in Shea Ernshaw's A Wilderness of Stars book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
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21. A New Clan (Honorverse: Star Kingdom, #4)

By: David Weber

4.28

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW NOVEL FEATURING STEPHANIE HARRINGTON IN HONORVERSE PREQUEL SERIES Sex! Drugs! Rock ‘n’ Roll! … read more

Similar categories in David Weber's A New Clan (Honorverse: Star Kingdom, #4) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
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22. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. The Prince of Nowhere

By: Rochelle Hassan

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Roda isn't afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. She's safe in her small town… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Prince of Nowhere book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
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24. Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear

By: Robin Wasley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse. High school is hard enough t… read more

Similar categories in Robin Wasley's Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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25. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
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26. The Dragon of Ynys

By: Minerva Cerridwen

3.86

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

Every time something goes missing from the village, Sir Violet, the local knight, makes his way to … read more

Similar categories in Minerva Cerridwen's The Dragon of Ynys book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1) by Astrid Scholte

27. League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

By: Astrid Scholte

3.60

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fantasy thriller, four teens charged with murder and the illegal use of magic band together… read more

Similar categories in Astrid Scholte's League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I'll find out the truth,' Leta whispered into the black. 'I promise, Mother."

-Astrid Scholte, League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

"Don't be one of those people who hates their life but doesn't have the courage to change it."

-Astrid Scholte, League of Liars (The League of Liars, #1)

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28. Frozen Hearts and Death Magic (Of Fire & Fae, #1)

By: Day Leitao

3.76

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

Romance, drama, and mystery abound in this telenovela-inspired upper-YA romantic fantasy for fans o… read more

Similar categories in Day Leitao's Frozen Hearts and Death Magic (Of Fire & Fae, #1) book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • young adult
Cover of Break to You by Neal Shusterman

29. Break to You

By: Neal Shusterman

3.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young a… read more

Similar categories in Neal Shusterman's Break to You book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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30. The Jump

By: Brittney Morris

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thri… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Morris's The Jump book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Trigger by N. Griffin

31. Trigger

By: N. Griffin

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this “brisk and brutal…harrowing and intriguing” ( Kir… read more

Similar categories in N. Griffin's Trigger book and N. Griffin's Trigger

  • mystery thriller
  • survival
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • abuse

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