13 must-read realistic fiction books like What Kind of Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

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What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng…

"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in What Kind of Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Phantom Limbs

By: Paula Garner

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must lea… read more

Similar categories in Paula Garner's Phantom Limbs book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It started the way so many good things do: with bacon."

-Paula Garner, Phantom Limbs

"All I wanted was for things to be like they used to be. Except for all the parts that couldn't be. Which I guess, was almost all of them."

-Paula Garner, Phantom Limbs

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2. The Sister Pact

By: Stacie Ramey

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A suicide pact was supposed to keep them together, but a broken promise tore them apart Allie is… read more

Similar categories in Stacie Ramey's The Sister Pact book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She could always talk me into anything. My sister made me a little starstruck."

-Stacie Ramey, The Sister Pact

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3. What I Lost

By: Alexandra Ballard

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and he… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Ballard's What I Lost book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

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

4. 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 Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. Always Forever Maybe

By: Anica Mrose Rissi

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

When Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush to… read more

Similar categories in Anica Mrose Rissi's Always Forever Maybe book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse

6. Killer Instinct (Killer Instinct, #1)

By: S.E. Green , Shannon Greenland

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

She's not evil, but she has certain... urges. Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grade… read more

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7. The Weight of Zero

By: None

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen-year-old Cath knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Cath… read more

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8. Sparrow

By: Sarah Moon

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather have stayed home on… read more

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9. Breathing Underwater (Breathing Underwater, #1)

By: Alex Flinn

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Like father, like son. Intelligent, popular, handsome, and wealthy, sixteen-year-old Nick Andreas i… read more

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10. 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 Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. You Know I'm No Good

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and William C. Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes the story of o… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Just Breathe book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of What Kind of Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

14. What Kind of Girl

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."

-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

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15. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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16. That's Not What Happened

By: Kody Keplinger

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best frien… read more

Similar categories in Kody Keplinger's That's Not What Happened book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Tell Me What Really Happened

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. N… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's Tell Me What Really Happened book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. The Art of Breaking Things

By: Laura Sibson

4.16

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Zarr, one girl embraces the power of her voice: … read more

Similar categories in Laura Sibson's The Art of Breaking Things book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Someone I Used to Know

By: Patty Blount

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's been two years since the night that changed Ashley's life. Two years since she was raped by he… read more

Similar categories in Patty Blount's Someone I Used to Know book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • abuse
"Every time there’s a terrorist attack, everybody starts screaming for border closings and tighter security at airports. Does anybody ever shrug it off and say, ‘Oh, it’s just extremists being extremi…"

-Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

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21. All The Things We Never Said

By: Yasmin Rahman

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

16-year-old Mehreen Miah's anxiety and depression, or 'Chaos', as she calls it, has taken over her … read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Rahman's All The Things We Never Said book and Alyssa B. Sheinmel's What Kind of Girl

  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Us. Two letters. Such a simple word, but such a foreign concept. I've never been an us before. Never been a we."

-Yasmin Rahman, All The Things We Never Said

17 best-selling fiction books like What Kind of Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Limbs

Paula Garner

3.93

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The Sister Pact

Stacie Ramey

3.73

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What I Lost

Alexandra Ballard

3.69

SweetFreak

Sophie McKenzie

4.06

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Suffer Love

Ashley Herring Blake

3.84

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The Words We Keep

Erin Stewart

4.34

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All That’s Left to Say

Emery Lord

3.73

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That Night

Amy Giles

3.99

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