17 Best romance books like Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki

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Anne of Greenville

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of how I became Anne of Greenville. It’s also the story of how I found my true tr…

"She sings it like she'd telling you a truth you don't necessarily see right away."

-Mariko Tamaki, Anne of Greenville

"She sings it like she's telling you a truth you don't necessarily see right away."

-Mariko Tamaki, Anne of Greenville

If you liked the romance plot in Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of How To Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

1. How To Succeed in Witchcraft

By: Aislinn Brophy

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An overachieving teen witch vies for a prestigious scholarship at her elite high school in this con… read more

Similar categories in Aislinn Brophy's How To Succeed in Witchcraft book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

2. The Dos and Donuts of Love

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teenage… read more

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's The Dos and Donuts of Love book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Food is a big part of my culture, especially sweet foods. When you're Bangladeshi, you're taught that any good news or celebration has to be accompanied with some sweet food. Every time you visit som…"

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Dos and Donuts of Love

Cover of Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs

3. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

Similar categories in Shawnelle Gibbs's Ghost Roast book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • fiction
  • young adult
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4. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

Cover of Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth

5. Twelfth Grade Night

By: Molly Horton Booth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The course of true love never did run smooth . . . and neither does high school in this new graphic… read more

Similar categories in Molly Horton Booth's Twelfth Grade Night book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

Similar categories in Jake Maia Arlow's How to Excavate a Heart book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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7. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney

8. Escaping Mr. Rochester

By: L.L. McKinney

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save… read more

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's Escaping Mr. Rochester book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Something Like Possible by Miel Moreland

9. Something Like Possible

By: Miel Moreland

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling YA contemporary from author Miel Moreland, a bisexual teen's path to political s… read more

Similar categories in Miel Moreland's Something Like Possible book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of) (Sort Of Adaptations, #1) by Kathleen Gros

10. Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of) (Sort Of Adaptations, #1)

By: Kathleen Gros

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Inspired by Anne of Green Gables, contemporary middle grade graphic novel Anne follows feisty red-h… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Gros's Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of) (Sort Of Adaptations, #1) book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki

11. Anne of Greenville

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of how I became Anne of Greenville. It’s also the story of how I found my true tr… read more

Similar categories in Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"She sings it like she'd telling you a truth you don't necessarily see right away."

-Mariko Tamaki, Anne of Greenville

"She sings it like she's telling you a truth you don't necessarily see right away."

-Mariko Tamaki, Anne of Greenville

Cover of Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen  Ferguson

12. Those Pink Mountain Nights

By: Jen Ferguson

3.94

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In her remarkable second novel following her acclaimed debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, which… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's Those Pink Mountain Nights book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Firebird by Sunmi

13. Firebird

By: Sunmi

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sunmi's gorgeous two-color teen graphic novel debut examines the power of resilience and reinventio… read more

Similar categories in Sunmi's Firebird book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir

14. Anne of West Philly

By: Ivy Noelle Weir

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Anne of Green Gables, with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy  and The Secret Ga… read more

Similar categories in Ivy Noelle Weir's Anne of West Philly book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler

15. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

16. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Cover of You Don't Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

17. You Don't Have a Shot

By: Racquel Marie

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Dr… read more

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's You Don't Have a Shot book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things by Maya Prasad

18. Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

By: Maya Prasad

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A Children's Book Council Young Adult Favorite of 2023! A Children's Book Council Librarian Favorit… read more

Similar categories in Maya Prasad's Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Avani rolled her eyes. “You read too many romance novels."

-Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

"The immensity of the infinite unknown was formidable, but for that brief moment, she did not feel small. With her sisters and a warm drink and flickering firelight, she only felt . . . Possibility."

-Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

"Nothing is too much to ask for because time is so precious and fleeting and because anyone who has ever truly loved you should want the most for you and because you should want the most for yourself,…"

-Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

"...she spotted his silhouette in the shadows, the sea behind him churning with smoke and dragons and night whispers. A thrill raced through her veins, the drug of endless possibilities. The evening w…"

-Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

Cover of Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan

19. Playing for Keeps

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pit… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Playing for Keeps book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Out of Character by Jenna     Miller

20. Out of Character

By: Jenna Miller

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she’d happily tell you she’s fat… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's Out of Character book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Acting the Part by Z.R. Ellor

21. Acting the Part

By: Z.R. Ellor

2.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This delightfully tropey teen romance, perfect for fans of Ashley Poston and Lyla Lee, follows a qu… read more

Similar categories in Z.R. Ellor's Acting the Part book and Mariko Tamaki's Anne of Greenville

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

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3.99

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Faith Erin Hicks

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