Post High School/College Life in Teen Fiction

Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd

An Off Year by Claire Zulkey

Catch by Will Leitch

Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft

• See also: Multiple Narrators

Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin

View From the Top by Hillary Frank

Every Crooked Pot by Renee Rosen

• See also: Losing Virginity, Disabilities

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Mexican teen
• See also: Food/Cooking, Finding Yourself through Travel
• A teen leaves his graduation party and decides to take an impulsive trip to Washington state, where he ends up working in a restaurant. 

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Indian-American characters
• See also: Marriage, Multiple Narrators
• Two teens meet at a coding/web development course the summer before college. 

The Disenchantments by Nina Lacour

• Pub Date: 2012
• High School Interest
• Colby goes on tour with his best friend's band after graduation. 

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

• Pub Date: 2009
• Middle or high school interest
• See also: Divorce, Stepparent 

Once and for All by Sarah Dessen

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: Marriage, Past & Present
• Louna spends the summer after graduation working for her mother's wedding planning business while flashbacks give a glimpse of tragic romance.

If Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: Multiple Narrators, Long Lost Parent
• Sebastian learns his father's identity and decides to spend the summer after high school getting to know him, which proves to be more complicated than he expected. 

The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Goode

• Pub Date: 2020
• High school Interest
• See also: Writers, Disabilities, Multiple Narrators
• Brennan and Jonas face their first years of college.