14 must-read romance books like Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Mexican American teen discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien lif…

"White people--guys especially--always imagine another way because their paths have always been saturated with forks. For Abuela and mi mamá, there was no fork. No other way."

-Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

"White people--guys especially--always imagine another way because their paths have always been saturated with forks. For Abuela and mi mamá, there was no fork. No other way."

-Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

If you liked the romance plot in Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. R.I.P. Eliza Hart

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

When Eliza Hart, the most popular girl at Ventana Ranch boarding school, is found dead on the cliff… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's R.I.P. Eliza Hart book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Fans of the Impossible Life

By: Kate Scelsa

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A captivating and profound debut novel about complicated love and the friendships that have the pow… read more

Similar categories in Kate Scelsa's Fans of the Impossible Life book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

3. Freak

By: Marcella Pixley

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is… read more

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4. Dark and Deepest Red

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until … read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to w…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

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5. If You'll Have Me

By: Eunnie

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Super sweet and totally heartwarming!”—Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper and Lovele… read more

Similar categories in Eunnie's If You'll Have Me book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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7. The Ashes of Tomorrow (Star Trek: Coda #2)

By: James Swallow

4.33

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic… read more

Similar categories in James Swallow's The Ashes of Tomorrow (Star Trek: Coda #2) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

By: Laura Taylor Namey

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, …"

-Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

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9. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. The Cold Is in Her Bones

By: Peternelle van Arsdale

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this dark and… read more

Similar categories in Peternelle van Arsdale's The Cold Is in Her Bones book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"We don't just cast our curses, girly. We become our curses."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

"It's just that if a demon wants you, a demon will get you. I don't think a little line of salt is going to keep it away."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

"There were too many secrets sending up little shoots through the floorboards and into the room, wrapping around them, ready to bear fruit."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

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11. Star Daughter

By: Shveta Thakrar

3.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

If the night sky holds many secrets, it holds Sheetal Mistry's secret the closest. A secret that ex… read more

Similar categories in Shveta Thakrar's Star Daughter book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Seizing power is one thing, and holding it is quite another,"

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"Sheetal woke night after night singing songs no human knew..."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"You want to understand humans? That is what makes us—and art—what we are. That choice to keep getting back up and trying again in the face of suffering and injustice and despair."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"What did she want? Adventures. Cupcakes and kulfi. To be star bright and mortal dark and make her own choices, too. To not be bound by other people’s expectations. More than anything, to be seen."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

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12. Each of Us a Desert

By: Mark Oshiro

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories… read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Each of Us a Desert book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"The sound of sunlight is the gentle scurrying of lizards and mice, desperate to find shade and comfort. It's the earth, groaning and creaking as it wakes up, as the moisture within it is pulled away,…"

-Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

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13. Faith: Taking Flight (Faith Herbert Origin Story, #1)

By: Julie Murphy

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes the first in a two-book … read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Faith: Taking Flight (Faith Herbert Origin Story, #1) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

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15. The Atlas of Us

By: Kristin Dwyer

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Dwyer's The Atlas of Us book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2) by Swati Teerdhala

16. The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2)

By: Swati Teerdhala

3.87

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

The Sun Mela is many things: a call for peace, a cause for celebration, and, above all, a deadly co… read more

Similar categories in Swati Teerdhala's The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To effect change, sometimes you have to be the catalyst and that requires action."

-Swati Teerdhala, The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2)

"The future would be better once they had righted the wrongs of the past. It had to be."

-Swati Teerdhala, The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2)

"When I think of you, Esha, I imagine the monsoon. Warm and life-giving. Fierce and powerful. A contradiction, just like a warrior poet."

-Swati Teerdhala, The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2)

"What is it with you and murder as the first resort?" he said. "Well, apparently I have to be the sensible one right now, and I'm not particularly enjoying it."

-Swati Teerdhala, The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #2)

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17. Don't Date Rosa Santos

By: Nina Moreno

3.82

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially… read more

Similar categories in Nina Moreno's Don't Date Rosa Santos book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Mexican American teen discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien lif… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • young adult science fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"White people--guys especially--always imagine another way because their paths have always been saturated with forks. For Abuela and mi mamá, there was no fork. No other way."

-Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Cover of The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

19. The Return of the Sorceress

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a magical journey of revenge and redemption. … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Return of the Sorceress book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"adventure surely awaits tomorrow and barring that there will be breakfast"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Return of the Sorceress

Cover of The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

20. The Candle and the Flame

By: Nafiza Azad

3.75

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Fatima lives in the city of Noor, a thriving stop along the Silk Road. There the music of myriad la… read more

Similar categories in Nafiza Azad's The Candle and the Flame book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"The desert has been a balm to all her hurts. This place with its emptiness and the promise of heat glimmering underneath the sand."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"I wonder what you see in him," Fatima muses. "Apart from his excellent muezzin abilities, you mean?" Adila says. "The symmetry of his face moves me." Azizah sniffs."

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

"Aren't you cold" Zulfikar shrugs off the plain black shawl he had around his shoulders and wraps it around Fatima Ghazala. "It smells like you," she says, drawing it close around her. "I didn't need …"

-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

Cover of Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5) by Lana Harper

21. Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5)

By: Lana Harper

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A magical romantic comedy sparkling with spells and witchcraft. To save both her town and the woma… read more

Similar categories in Lana Harper's Rise and Divine (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #5) book and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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3.57

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4.44

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