11 best-selling lgbt books like We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding

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We Used to Be Friends

By: Amy Spalding

3.30

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Two best friends grow up—and grow apart—in this innovative contemporary YA novel   Told in dual ti…

"The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one."

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

"The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one."

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

"Quinn is somehow balancing all three Dole Whip floats in her hands. 'Should we eat these in the Tiki Room? Or just sit out here?' 'You can't not eat these in the Tiki Room,' Kat says. 'I can only enjoy pinapple soft serve when I'm being serenaded by animatronic parrots."

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

"Quinn is somehow balancing all three Dole Whip floats in her hands. 'Should we eat these in the Tiki Room? Or just sit out here?' 'You can't not eat these in the Tiki Room,' Kat says. 'I can only enjoy pinapple soft serve when I'm being serenaded by animatronic parrots."

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

If you liked the lgbt plot in We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Final Draft

By: Riley Redgate

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in… read more

Similar categories in Riley Redgate's Final Draft book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

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

2. Pulp

By: Robin Talley

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

About a closeted teen in the 1950s finding a way to express herself by writing a lesbian pulp novel… read more

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3. Everything Between Us (The Pink Bean, #3)

By: Harper Bliss

3.81

Format: None pages,

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4. This Foreign Affair (The Pink Bean, #4)

By: Harper Bliss

3.64

Format: None pages, ebook

Can passion bridge ten thousand miles? Television presenter Zoya Das is reeling from a painful brea… read more

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5. Home Field Advantage

By: Dahlia Adler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this sweet and funny new f/f romance from the author of Cool for the Summer, a cheerleader and t… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • 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

Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

6. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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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 Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • 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

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8. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Claire Forrest's Where You See Yourself book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Forget Me Not

By: Alyson Derrick

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obsta… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Derrick's Forget Me Not book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

By: Elise Bryant

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. S… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Rules for Rule Breaking

By: Talia Tucker

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced i… read more

Similar categories in Talia Tucker's Rules for Rule Breaking book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. The Ballad of Darcy and Russell

By: Morgan Matson

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Darcy believes in love at first sight. Even though it’s never happened to her, she’s spent her whol… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's The Ballad of Darcy and Russell book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Planning Perfect

By: Haley Neil

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this charming, heartfelt YA romcom about being on the asexual spectrum, a girl tries to craft th… read more

Similar categories in Haley Neil's Planning Perfect book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Love & Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura

14. Love & Other Natural Disasters

By: Misa Sugiura

3.38

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn’t what she had in mind. Tha… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's Love & Other Natural Disasters book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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 Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding

16. We Used to Be Friends

By: Amy Spalding

3.30

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Two best friends grow up—and grow apart—in this innovative contemporary YA novel   Told in dual ti… read more

Similar categories in Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one."

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

"Quinn is somehow balancing all three Dole Whip floats in her hands. 'Should we eat these in the Tiki Room? Or just sit out here?' 'You can't not eat these in the Tiki Room,' Kat says. 'I can only enj…"

-Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

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17. 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 Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk

18. When You Were Everything

By: Ashley Woodfolk

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

You can't rewrite the past, but you can always choose to start again. It’s been twenty-seven da… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Woodfolk's When You Were Everything book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I can forget about her for hours or even whole days, and then the truth rushes back like a brush fire, burning me from the inside out. The person you loved? They're gone."

-Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

"As we roll and pat and press the snow into new shapes, I pray that my memories are just as malleable as the snow in my hands. Hopefully my past is as rewritable as I'm pretending it can be."

-Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

"As I look out at the blurry city, I embrace the illusion that everything is fine because it's snowing. And in the snow, I can pretend that the sad things in my life are just dreams I've misremembered."

-Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

"So for a second I allow myself to look and listen, to notice the world around me. But inevitably, that leads to noticing my utter aloneness, and to thinking of every ugly thing I've done that has lea…"

-Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

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19. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

Cover of Not You Again by Ingrid Pierce

20. Not You Again

By: Ingrid Pierce

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Wedding gown designer Andie Dresser is hanging on by a thread. Gaining a following on TikTok for he… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Pierce's Not You Again book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Don't Read the Comments

By: Eric Smith

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Divya Sharma is a queen. Or she is when she’s playing Reclaim the Sun, the year’s hottest online ga… read more

Similar categories in Eric Smith's Don't Read the Comments book and Amy Spalding's We Used to Be Friends

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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