9 Top realistic fiction books like Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

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Since You've Been Gone

By: Morgan Matson

4.07

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before wh…

"In a well-ordered universe..."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"In a well-ordered universe..."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. P.S. I Like You

By: Kasie West

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Signed, sealed, delivered… While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favo… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's P.S. I Like You book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"When I was dating, my girlfriends and I used to say, ‘Don’t cry in front of him before date three.’ "

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge me."

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"Sometimes I wish I were passionate about something real. Something I knew I could succeed in. Right now all my dreams are a little far-fetched."

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

"Confidence. I'm bad at it. I get too self-conscious. Especially about things that mean a lot to me. I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge …"

-Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

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2. Tell Me Three Things

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's what it feels like during her first week of juni… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Tell Me Three Things book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. The Distance Between Us

By: Kasie West

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and aft… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
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4. Lucky in Love

By: Kasie West

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can't buy me love... Maddie's not impulsive. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Lucky in Love book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • fiction
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

6. Since You've Been Gone

By: Morgan Matson

4.07

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before wh… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"In a well-ordered universe..."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

"Maybe she didn’t do something big. Maybe she just told someone something."

-Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

7. The Fill-In Boyfriend

By: Kasie West

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

When Gia Montgomery's boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she… read more

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8. Listen to Your Heart

By: Kasie West

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Talking to other people isn't Kate Bailey's favorite activity. She'd much rather be out on the lake… read more

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9. My Life Next Door

By: Huntley Fitzpatrick

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garret… read more

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10. P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2)

By: Jenny Han

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Lara Jean didn't expect to reallyfall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenl… read more

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11. On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

By: Kasie West

4.02

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2) book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"-You gotta do your best to be the best, right?"

-Kasie West, On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

"I can do both at the same time," he assured me. "I'm talented like that."

-Kasie West, On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

"Sometimes we expect more than people are capable of giving at the moment."

-Kasie West, On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

"I knew why I cared. Why this mattered so much. Why his opinion was the only thing that mattered. I was more than crushing on him. I loved Braden."

-Kasie West, On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

12. Along for the Ride

By: Sarah Dessen

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

It's been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents' divorce--or since the fightin… read more

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13. Saint Anything

By: Sarah Dessen

4.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the l… read more

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14. What I Thought Was True

By: Huntley Fitzpatrick

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Gwen Castle has never so badly wanted to say good-bye to her island home till now: the summer her B… read more

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15. Alex, Approximately

By: Jenn Bennett

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The one guy Bailey Rydell can't stand is actually the boy of her dreams--she just doesn't know it y… read more

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16. Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #3)

By: Jenny Han

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Lara Jean is having the bestsenior year. And there's still so much to look forward to: a class trip… read more

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17. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • chick lit
  • fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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18. Places We've Never Been

By: Kasie West

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Places We've Never Been book and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?"

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

"But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing."

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

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19. Meet Me at Midnight

By: Jessica Pennington

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They have a love-hate relationship with summer. Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star s… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Rest of the Story

By: Sarah Dessen

4.04

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does rememb… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"To summer, and to us."

-Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

"Even when words fail me, you never do."

-Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

"A life isn’t just the pages you know, it’s everything."

-Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

"You can make your life, or life can make you. Was it really that simple of a choice?"

-Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

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21. The Geography of Lost Things

By: Jessica Brody

3.82

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic road trip story perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson, a teen girl di… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

12 Best fiction books like Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

Transform Your Habits

P.S. I Like You

Kasie West

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Three Things

Julie Buxbaum

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Distance Between Us

Kasie West

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Lucky in Love

Kasie West

1.00

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12 Best fiction books like Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington

Transform Your Habits

Summer of Sloane

Erin L. Schneider

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Second Chance Summer

Morgan Matson

4.12

Transform Your Habits

On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)

Kasie West

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Last Chance Summer

Shannon Klare

3.64

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