9 best-selling fantasy books like Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales by Rebecca Podos

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Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

By: Rebecca Podos

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Join fifteen bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming authors as they reimagine some of the mo…

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1. Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

By: Sara Farizan

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

High-school junior Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crus… read more

Similar categories in Sara Farizan's Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

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

2. How to Make a Wish

By: Ashley Herring Blake

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Grace, tough and wise, has nearly given up on wishes, thanks to a childhood spent with her unpredic… read more

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3. If You Could Be Mine

By: Sara Farizan

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut, a young Iranian American writer pulls back the curtain on one of the most h… read more

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4. 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 Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • 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

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5. 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

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • 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

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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 Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed

By: Marissa Meyer

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Love is in the air in this is a collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes and edited by #1 … read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Grimoire of Grave Fates

By: Hanna Alkaf

3.37

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordi… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Alkaf's The Grimoire of Grave Fates book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen ye… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Never Ever Getting Back Together book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. 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 Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • 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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11. Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

14 Young Adult short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors make a splash in Mermaids N… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Askim,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Ugh. Feelings are gross,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Let go of which cannot be held."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

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13. Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

QUEER WE GO AGAIN! A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seve… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again! book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I don't get enough credit for using my genius only for personal gain and not all-out evil."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"... how everyone is made to believe white is good, pure, a ray of light while black is bad, tainted, the ugliest darkness, is ridiculous."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"It's hard. Wanting the tea, but also not wanting the tea, but feeling like you should want the tea, but knowing you should protest the tea, so you put the protest on the teapot and throw all the tea …"

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

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14. 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 Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. Okay, Cupid

By: Mason Deaver

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's Okay, Cupid book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. 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 Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. The Feeling of Falling in Love

By: Mason Deaver

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the b… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's The Feeling of Falling in Love book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"But in my experience, I've learned that the things worth doing are what scare us the most."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

"I don’t deserve anything but loneliness because all I do is hurt people. It’s what I’m good at. I learned from the best."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

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18. How Not to Fall in Love

By: Jacqueline Firkins

3.62

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

A hardened cynic and a hopeless romantic teach each other about love in this swoony and heartfelt c… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Firkins's How Not to Fall in Love book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"People think it's the fear of falling, but it's not. It's the fear of falling combined with the desire to fall [...] the more we value something, the more we fear its loss."

-Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love

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19. The Girl in Question

By: Tess Sharpe

4.35

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

High school is over, but Nora O'Malley's life isn't, which is weird now that her murderous stepdad … read more

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's The Girl in Question book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's fucking with fate."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question

"Sometimes lying is the only way through to survival."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question

"It's time to stop reacting. It's time to start attacking."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question

"Sorry you got fired. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. "

-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question

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20. This Time Tomorrow (Phenomenal Fate, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.91

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Roksana, heiress to the vampire slayer throne, has performance anxiety. She’s supposed to kill E… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's This Time Tomorrow (Phenomenal Fate, #2) book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • contemporary
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21. How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying)

By: Cristina Fernandez

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With humor and heart, a story proving that you don’t need a superpower to be the hero and a romanti… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Fernandez's How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"She’d almost done therapy once before. But it was pretty clear after some research that she just had some post-traumatic stress and generalized anxiety, so it seemed easier to just skip the whole thi…"

-Cristina Fernandez, How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying)

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22. In the Case of Heartbreak (Fern Falls, #2)

By: Courtney Kae

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

With a gorgeous beachfront mansion, salty ocean breeze, steamy nights, and ALL the summertime feels… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Kae's In the Case of Heartbreak (Fern Falls, #2) book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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23. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's The Breakup Lists book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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24. Together, Apart

By: Erin A. Craig

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's m… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's Together, Apart book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise by Laura  Silverman

25. Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

By: Laura Silverman

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I don't want to live my life behind a mask with no one to share who I am with."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

"...the choices we make--the choices that matter--aren't just the big, sweeping ones. Sometimes a meaningful choice is a simple choice, as simple as five words."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

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26. Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

By: Rebecca Podos

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Join fifteen bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming authors as they reimagine some of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of I'll Be Home For Christmas (I Wish You All the Best #1.5) by Mason Deaver

27. I'll Be Home For Christmas (I Wish You All the Best #1.5)

By: Mason Deaver

4.20

Format: 60 pages, ebook

Ben has a plan for the ultimate Christmas present for Nathan. All it requires is taking a large gol… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's I'll Be Home For Christmas (I Wish You All the Best #1.5) book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder by Saundra Mitchell

28. Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.74

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Into the queer new yonder! To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaim… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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29. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina  Li

30. True Love and Other Impossible Odds

By: Christina Li

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pitched as Nina LaCour meets The Half of It, the story follows a first-year college student Grace T… read more

Similar categories in Christina Li's True Love and Other Impossible Odds book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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31. Epically Earnest

By: Molly Horan

3.23

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this delightfully romantic LGBTQ+ comedy-of-errors inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of B… read more

Similar categories in Molly Horan's Epically Earnest book and Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

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

28 Best fiction books like Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales by Rebecca Podos

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

Sara Farizan

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Dos and Donuts of Love

Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

Transform Your Habits

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

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

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I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

Alice Oseman

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Nick and Charlie

Alice Oseman

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Alice Oseman

4.49

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Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

4.24

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