Book: Does My Head Look Big in This?

Title: Does My Head Look Big in This?
Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah
Published: 2005
Category: YA
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Pages: 360
Summary on Goodreads: When sixteen-year-old Amal decides to wear the hijab full-time, her entire world changes, all because of a piece of cloth...

Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else.

Can she handle the taunts of "towel head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attract the cutest boy in school? Brilliantly funny and poignant, Randa Abdel-Fattah's debut novel will strike a chord in all teenage readers, no matter what their beliefs. 

Literary Accolades: Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee

Note, the author has written several other books as well, but this is probably her most well-known book.

Her other major works include: Ten Things I Hate About Me

Where the Streets Had No Name

Author: Megan Abbott

Name: Megan Abbott

Category: Adult Fiction

Genres written: Mystery/Noir/True Crime/Thriller

Major Books Written: Die a Little

Queenpin

Bury Me Deep

The Song is You

The End of Everything

Dare Me

The Fever

The book I get recommended to me most by this author is Dare Me, so I would start there.

Author: Hailey Abbott

Name: Hailey Abbott

Genre most written: Realistic Fiction/Romance

Category: YA

Has written two major series: Summer Boys, started in 2004, now complete

and a spin-off series Summer Girls, started in 2009, now complete

She also has written a handful of standalone realistic fiction/romance books:

The Other Boy

Flirting With Boys

Getting Lost With Boys

Forbidden Boy

Waking Up to Boys

Boy Crazy 

The Secret of Boys

The Perfect Boy

The Bridesmaid

All of these seem to be summery realistic fiction/romance set around beaches.

Book: Flatland

Title: Flatland-A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Published: 1884
Category: Classic/Adult Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 118
Summary on Goodreads: Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.

Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature. 

Book Series: Peter Grant

Series: The Peter Grant series (also known as PC Grant novels or Rivers of London series)

Author: Ben Aaronovich

Started: 2011, still on going, the next book is out in November

Category: Adult Fiction

Genre: Urban Fantasy/Mystery

Tropes: hidden magical world, ghosts, police procedural, wizards, gods/goddesses, magic

Summary of series on Goodreads: These are the adventures of Peter Grant, a young officer in the Metropolitan Police; who, following an unexpected encounter with a ghost, is recruited into the small branch of the Met that deals with magic and the supernatural.

Order of Books: Midnight Riot (also published as Rivers of London)

Moon Over SoHo

Whispers Underground

Broken Homes

Foxglove Summer

Upcoming book in November: The Hanging Tree