18 Top realistic fiction books like If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

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If These Wings Could Fly

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Mindy McGinnis, Kyrie McCauley's stunnin…

"Maybe fear is the toll women pay to exist in this world at all."

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"Maybe fear is the toll women pay to exist in this world at all."

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"This is what I know of pride . I know that it keeps the secrets of cruel men. I know that it holds us in the shadows, because we are too proud to admit we need help. I know that pride values a men's reputation over a woman's life. It calls her selfish for speaking up, even when she speaks the truth. then. "

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"This is what I know of pride . I know that it keeps the secrets of cruel men. I know that it holds us in the shadows, because we are too proud to admit we need help. I know that pride values a men's reputation over a woman's life. It calls her selfish for speaking up, even when she speaks the truth. then. "

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

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1. For Keeps

By: Natasha Friend

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Josie's never met her dad, and that's fine with her. To Josie, Paul Tucci is just a guy who got her… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Friend's For Keeps book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

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

2. Now Is Everything

By: Amy Giles

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The McCauleys look perfect on the outside. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this family is hidi… read more

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3. Redemption (League of Vampires, #1)

By: Rye Brewer

3.82

Format: 736 pages,

A vampire slayer by necessity. Anissa Garnet is a vampire. She's also a slayer. Anissa is no strang… read more

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4. 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 Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Just Breathe

By: Cammie McGovern

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of A Step Toward Falling and Say What You Will comes a new YA … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Nicht weg und nicht da

By: Anne Freytag

4.57

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Nach dem Tod ihres Bruders macht Luise einen radikalen Schnitt: Sie trennt sich von ihrem mausgraue… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Sie hat die Statur eines Rehs, bewegt sich aber wie eine Kriegerin." - S. 13"

-Anne Freytag, Nicht weg und nicht da

"Alles, was er viel tut, tue ich wenig. Lachen, reden, Freunde treffen." - S. 17"

-Anne Freytag, Nicht weg und nicht da

"Die dunklen Augenbrauen heben sich von ihrer hellen Haut ab wie eine Stammesbemalung." - S. 13"

-Anne Freytag, Nicht weg und nicht da

"Durch den menschlichen Körper fließen im Durchschnitt 5 bis 6 Liter Blut. Ausgesehen hat es nach mehr." - S. 9"

-Anne Freytag, Nicht weg und nicht da

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7. The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. N…"

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

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8. If These Wings Could Fly

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Mindy McGinnis, Kyrie McCauley's stunnin… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • magical realism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • abuse
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe fear is the toll women pay to exist in this world at all."

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"This is what I know of pride . I know that it keeps the secrets of cruel men. I know that it holds us in the shadows, because we are too proud to admit we need help. I know that pride values a men's …"

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"This is what I know of pride . I know that it keeps the secrets of cruel men. I know that it holds us in the shadows, because we are too proud to admit we need help. I know that pride values a man's …"

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

"But some things should fall apart. They should burn themselves out, like a candle that's run its wick to the bottom. It's dangerous to wish for such a thing, though, because some flames are too selfi…"

-Kyrie McCauley, If These Wings Could Fly

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9. The Words We Keep

By: Erin Stewart

4.34

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart's The Words We Keep book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. What I Carry

By: Jennifer Longo

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

For readers of Robin Benway's Far From the Tree, a powerful and heartwarming look at a teen girl ab… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Longo's What I Carry book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The entire fucking point of being born is that someone is supposed to take care of you."

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"Not being perfect is for people who have families; you can screw up and they still keep you."

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"Memory is a fascinating thing. Months and years can pass, uneventful and lost, but then certain tiny moments, pieces of conversation or feelings within the thousands of blank days stay sharp, clear l…"

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"It's not like I'm dead inside. It's that I'm allergic to manufactured, insincere emotion. A lifetime of people saying one thing but doing the opposite has inoculated me, and now I understand how to s…"

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

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11. 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

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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12. The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2)

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the dark and stunning sequel to The Initial Insult, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis conclude… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2) book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Tress nods, unsurprised. Her life has taken so many turns for the worse I guess at some point you just don't expect the road signs to offer you anything better."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2)

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13. This Is My America

By: Kim Johnson

4.46

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist in… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's This Is My America book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Wild Blue Wonder

By: Carlie Sorosiak

3.99

Format: 368 pages, ebook

There are two monsters in this story. One of them is me. Ask anyone in Winship, Maine, and they’… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • magical realism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The average lifespan of the common octopus is less than a year. Even the big ones don't live any longer than five, which means that all of them die right after their kids are born. The don't pass a s…"

-Carlie Sorosiak, Wild Blue Wonder

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15. In Search Of Us

By: Ava Dellaira

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and da… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Love's worth it, for however long it lasts."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Su beso no es solo un beso. Su beso es el único beso que lo haya cambiado todo jamas."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Maybe it's true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"But missing something is okay. It's better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I'll take longing over boredom any day."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

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16. This Light Between Us

By: Andrew Fukuda

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jew… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Hollow Inside

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Sadie meets The Glass Castle in a smart, gripping, and twisty YA debut about a girl seeking to reve… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's The Hollow Inside book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. How It All Blew Up

By: Arvin Ahmadi

3.84

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity … read more

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  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I rolled my eyes. " What, are you my dad now?" "Maybe your daddy..." "Just kidding," Neil said. "You probably don't even know what that means." "Hey, just because I came out like five seconds ago doe…"

-Arvin Ahmadi, How It All Blew Up

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19. Splinters of Scarlet

By: Emily Bain Murphy

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A YA historical fantasy set in nineteenth-century Denmark, where secrets can kill and magic is a de… read more

Similar categories in Emily Bain Murphy's Splinters of Scarlet book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Sometimes the biggest decisions you make come by doing absolutely nothing."

-Emily Bain Murphy, Splinters of Scarlet

"But what is love if not life, siphoned out and given away and spent freely for others each day?"

-Emily Bain Murphy, Splinters of Scarlet

"Forming friendships, I suppose, is a little like walking on ice that thickens underneath your feet with every step toward each other."

-Emily Bain Murphy, Splinters of Scarlet

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20. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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22. Fadeaway

By: E.B. Vickers

3.88

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

When a high school basketball star goes missing, a town’s secrets are exposed in this edge-of-your … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. What Beauty There Is

By: Cory Anderson

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. Jack Morton has nothing left. Except… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. Girl on the Run (Underlined Paperbacks)

By: Abigail Johnson

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced original paperback thriller about a girl who discovers that her mother might not be wh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Right Side of Reckless by Whitney D. Grandison

25. The Right Side of Reckless

By: Whitney D. Grandison

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

He’s never met a rule he didn’t break… She’s followed the rules her whole life… When they meet, one… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. A Starlet's Secret to a Sensational Afterlife

By: Kendall Kulper

3.94

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

A budding starlet and her handsome-but-moody co-star go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners w… read more

Similar categories in Kendall Kulper's A Starlet's Secret to a Sensational Afterlife book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck

27. Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and heartbreaking contemporary story a… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
" HAMBURGARE Hand-patted, local grass-fed beef, homemade buns ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- POMMES FRITES Fresh-cut fries ---- ---- ---- MUNKAR ---- ---- ---- ---- "

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"Goat cheese poutine. Fresh-cut fries. Thick, rich beef gravy. Some other secret goodies splashed in. And creamy, tangy goat cheese. Jösses, the stuff was life-changing."

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"We stuck with the traditional Äpple Munk and the favorite munkhål, but we also added a seasonal one I'd been working on in Mrs. Bixler's room during this dramatic lull in school-apple leftovers. I'd …"

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

"I wonder if maybe Farfar's heaven would be steering his own kart, inside the game, his gray ponytail slowly flapping in the lessened gravity of Rainbow Road, cackling as a smiling puff-cloud fishes h…"

-Jared Reck, Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

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28. Eat Your Heart Out

By: Kelly deVos

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A YA thriller about a kickass group of teens battling a ravenous group of zombies. In the next f… read more

Similar categories in Kelly deVos's Eat Your Heart Out book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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29. Echoes Between Us

By: Katie McGarry

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Echoes Between Us is bestselling author Katie McGarry’s breakout teen contemporary novel about a gi… read more

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  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don't you get it? The only time I live is when I'm with you."

-Katie McGarry, Echoes Between Us

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30. Golden Arm

By: Carl Deuker

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks find… read more

Similar categories in Carl Deuker's Golden Arm book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. The Other Side of Infinity

By: Joan F. Smith

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel by Joan F. Smith, where a teen… read more

Similar categories in Joan F. Smith's The Other Side of Infinity book and Kyrie McCauley's If These Wings Could Fly

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I craved learning more about him, impatient to entangle my memories with my future experiences. To feel. Desperate to fall in love. But more important, most important: desperate to keep him alive."

-Joan F. Smith, The Other Side of Infinity

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Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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Just Breathe

Cammie McGovern

3.89

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Nicht weg und nicht da

Anne Freytag

4.57

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The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

Mindy McGinnis

3.67

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In the Wild Light

Jeff Zentner

4.46

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Mindy McGinnis

3.67

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Erin Stewart

4.34

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