Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Carrie Soto Is Back focuses on the return of tennis great Carrie Soto to the sport. With her father acting as her coach and a hitter whose reputation precedes him, she is determined to reclaim...
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The Loophole by Naz Kutub
The Loophole is a modern fantasy about Sayyed, a gay Muslim teenager, trying to find his (ex-)boyfriend Farouk on the other side of the world. With the help of Reggie, who grants Sayyed three wishes,...
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Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
A prospective reader will know from the first sentence of Just by Looking at Him whether or not this will be a read for them – I honestly can’t say I’ve read another book that...
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Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan
Melt With You is a YA sapphic romance that features a road trip and ice cream – what’s not to love? Fallon and Chloe are ex-best friends after one particular night, and Fallon has sworn...
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Out of the Blue by Jason June
Out of the Blue is an empowering fish-out-of-water (literally!) YA queer romance. Sean, a lifeguard and aspiring film director, has just been publicly dumped by his boyfriend when he meets Ross, a stranger who seems...
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Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee
Café Con Lychee is a Romeo-and-Juliet queer YA romance about two boys whose families own competing cafés in the same town. Used to only having each other to vie for customers’ attention, when a new...
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Going into Station Eleven, I was pretty sure it wouldn’t be my cup of tea. I don’t do dystopian fiction, anything to do with a pandemic is a big turn-off right now, and, frankly, I...
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Space Trash Vol. 1 by Jenn Woodall
Space Trash Vol. 1 introduces the coolest, most punk-rock girl gang this side of the solar system. Stab, Yuki, and Una are underdogs at their school, just trying to make it through while standing their...
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Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
Answers in the Pages focuses on the story of two boys – Donovan, a kid whose mom is challenging a book he’s reading in class, and Gideon, who is experiencing strange feelings for the new...
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
This small volume in between books #1 and #2 of the Montague Siblings series gives a further look at Monty and Percy’s relationship and its, ahem, more intimate parts. They were my favorite part of...
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