21 must-read lgbt books like Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

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Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I care about you, okay? I like you, even though you're pricky as hell and looking at me like you wish I would vaporize and you think ketchup is a vegetable."

-Dahlia Adler, Home Field Advantage

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave."

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

"And I think being friends with someone should be like the concept of infinity—like you truly believe that person has no limits, and you just want to keep counting upward with them to see where they g…"

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's Afterlove book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Same. I'm strictly clitly." - p. 81"

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"She throws her head back and laughs and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"But that's the trouble with best friends, isn't it? They know everything and forget nothing, no matter how much you want them to."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"Everyone is friends. Everyone is in love. Nothing else matters but midnight because next year will be different. We will be different. It's our year."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's 6 Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did] book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I'm sorry you had to put all your feelings to the side so you could help me." "I'm not," she says fiercely. "I can, in fact, be mad at you and help you at the same time. It's called being emotionally…"

-Tess Sharpe, 6 Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did]

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella Is Dead book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

"Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"People wear masks so that they can fit in and stay safe. Can you blame them?"

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"it feel like another part of me is being changed to fit someone else's vision of what is pretty."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other..."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Family is complicated, Hani. Everyone has a different relationship with their family."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Right now, all men seem overwhelmingly unattractive - except the ones on the Netflix shows I watch."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality. And girls more as a reality than a concept."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2) book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

Similar categories in Auriane Desombre's I Think I Love You (Underlined Paperbacks) book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Just because the straights in Hollywood don’t know how to tell my story doesn’t mean it’s not out there."

-Auriane Desombre, I Think I Love You (Underlined Paperbacks)

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume,…"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative …"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

Similar categories in Cynthia So's If You Still Recognise Me book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Some Girls Do book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's The Falling in Love Montage book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's Ophelia After All book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"HAMLET MAY HAVE BEEN A TRAGEDY. BUT OPHELIA DESERVED A COMEDY"

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"It's been hard and messy and scary. I want you guys to care about it and what it changes for me, but without it changing us."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"But I don’t think the truest love is deemed so because it’s the most painful. Waiting for someone to love you back seems beautiful in a miserable way when you’re young. No offense."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• gay
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's You Don't Have a Shot book and Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer