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Teen Slice of Life Booklist

 Slice-of-Life: Stories about a person's daily ordinary life.

Fern Ridge Library offers teen slice-of-life fiction, focused on daily life, for ages 13-18.
Book cover: "Once and For All" by Sarah Dessen. A hand reaches upward, surrounded by floating flowers.
Cover of "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" by Jenny Han, featuring a girl on a bed with a notebook.
A person holding a vintage camera. Text: "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon.
“Kate in Waiting” by Becky Albertalli, featuring text "Break a leg, not your heart" on a pink background with star accents.
Cover of "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell, featuring a girl on a laptop with thought bubbles and a guy nearby.
Book cover of "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy, featuring a woman in a red dress with arms raised, and the tagline "Go Big or Go Home."
Illustrated cover of "Better Than the Movies" by Lynn Painter, featuring romantic scenes.
Cover of "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green, featuring a review by Jodi Picoult and highlighting its bestseller status.
Cover of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. Image of a girl, tree, and text about New York Public Library selection.
The cover of "The Unexpected Everything" by Morgan Matson features a girl with several dogs in front of an ice cream truck.
Book cover of "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon, with floral designs and a note: "Now a major motion picture."
"Anna and the French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins, book cover with Eiffel Tower.
Books with blue covers form a background for the title "Words in Deep Blue" by Cath Crowley.
Fern Ridge Library offers teen slice-of-life fiction, focused on daily life, for ages 13-18.
Book cover: "Once and For All" by Sarah Dessen. A hand reaches upward, surrounded by floating flowers.
Cover of "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" by Jenny Han, featuring a girl on a bed with a notebook.
A person holding a vintage camera. Text: "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon.
“Kate in Waiting” by Becky Albertalli, featuring text "Break a leg, not your heart" on a pink background with star accents.
Cover of "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell, featuring a girl on a laptop with thought bubbles and a guy nearby.
Book cover of "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy, featuring a woman in a red dress with arms raised, and the tagline "Go Big or Go Home."
Illustrated cover of "Better Than the Movies" by Lynn Painter, featuring romantic scenes.
Cover of "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green, featuring a review by Jodi Picoult and highlighting its bestseller status.
Cover of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. Image of a girl, tree, and text about New York Public Library selection.
The cover of "The Unexpected Everything" by Morgan Matson features a girl with several dogs in front of an ice cream truck.
Book cover of "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon, with floral designs and a note: "Now a major motion picture."
"Anna and the French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins, book cover with Eiffel Tower.
Books with blue covers form a background for the title "Words in Deep Blue" by Cath Crowley.

TEEN FIC DESSEN
Once and for all by Sarah Dessen

Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.

TEEN FIC HAN
To all the boys I've loved before by Jenny Han

Lara Jean has never openly admitted her crushes, but she's written each boy a letter about how she felt, and sealed it, and hid it in a hatbox under her bed. One day she finds that her secret box of letters has been mailed, and her life goes out of control.

TEEN FIC MENON
From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon

Twinkle Mehra haas stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. When fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, it's a dream come true. And it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy, Sahil's twin brother. Slight inconvenience: in the course of movie-making, Twinkle falls in love with adorkable Sahil.

TEEN FIC ALBERTALLI
Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli

Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.

TEEN FIC ROWELL
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Being consummate fans of the Simon Snow series helped Cath and her twin sister, Wren, cope as little girls whose mother left them, but now, as they start college but not as roommates, Cath fears she is unready to live without Wren holding her hand--and without her passion for Snow.

TEEN FIC MURPHY
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Willowdean Dixon, a self-proclaimed "fat girl" challenges societal beauty standards by entering her mother's local beauty pageant as a form of protest, ultimately inspiring other girls to join and redefine the pageant's image, all while navigating her own relationships and self-acceptance journey.

TEEN FIC PAINTER
Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Liz Buxbaum's crush Michael never really saw her before he moved away. Now he is back in town, and Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar, and maybe snag him as a prom date. Attractive next-door neighbor Wes Bennet might seem like a prime candidate for Rom-Com fantasies, but he has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz's in.

TEEN FIC GREEN
The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

TEEN FIC SMITH
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior―such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce―no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama.

TEEN FIC MATSON
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Seventeen year old Andie always has a plan, but when her father suffers a political scandal, her summer med school program is taken away from her, and a new guy comes into the picture, she finds a lot of unexpected things can happen when you're busy making other plans.

TEEN FIC YOON
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black, he catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

TEEN FIC PERKINS
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

When Anna's father sends her to an American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets a boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

TEEN FIC CROWLEY
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

Teenagers Rachel and Henry find their way back to each other while working in an old bookstore full of secrets and crushes, love letters and memories, grief and hope.