The Truth Is
By: NoNieqa Ramos
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"You want the answer to who you are to be multiple choice, fool? The answer is a three-part essay question. And remember, there is NO time limit."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
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1. Beasts of No Nation
By: Uzodinma Iweala
3.79
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country."-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I am also thinking as I am rubbing the mud off my feets and then folding my arm up in my lap how it is strange that all of these men are always looking at this whole country on map and acting as if i…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it …"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never st…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
2. Mother Tongue
By: Demetria Martínez
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared… read more
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- fiction
3. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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4. Bruiser
By: Neal Shusterman
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"There's a reason why Brewster can't have friends - why he can't care about too many people. Becaus… read more
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5. Hooky Volume 3 (Hooky, #3)
By: Míriam Bonastre Tur
4.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling, heartfelt finale to the New York Times bestselling Hooky series, based on the belove… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- lgbt
"DONT YOU DARE BURY A CORPSE UNDER THIS BRIDGE"-Míriam Bonastre Tur, Hooky Volume 3 (Hooky, #3)
6. The Shape of Thunder
By: Jasmine Warga
4.17
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other,… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"I just want to be okay. I don't want to feel okay. I want to be okay."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"The more things you know, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"Whenever I get a bad grade, I always try to explain to Mom that I did read the book. And just because I can't remember what color shirt the character was wearing in page six doesn't mean that I didn'…"-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
7. We Deserve Monuments
By: Jas Hammonds
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more
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- lgbt
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- young adult
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- queer
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments
8. The Trail of Lost Hearts
By: Tracey Garvis Graves
3.98
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times bestselling author Tracey Garvis Graves takes readers on a life affirming journey, w… read more
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- romance
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- fiction
- mental health
9. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
10. Always the Almost
By: Edward Underhill
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
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- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. My Fair Brady
By: Brian D. Kennedy
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com fro… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
12. Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more
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- romance
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
13. The Deep Dark
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more
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- romance
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- queer
14. My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding: A Novel
By: Sajni Patel
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, witty rom-com romp set against the backdrop of a high-profile music competition and a riot… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. This Day Changes Everything
By: Edward Underhill
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Edward Underhill's new whirlwind rom-com about two qu… read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
16. Four Days of You and Me
By: Miranda Kenneally
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A new swoon-worthy romance following a couple's love story on the same date over four years. Ev… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
18. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.13
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestsell… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Being in a shadow is never just as simple as stepping out of it. Shadows can camouflage a lot of things."-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point."-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"I dreamed of going to the most remote places on this earth to dig for old bones, older than people. Before humans and their stupid ideas. Before hate. Maybe even before love, too. Dinosaurs just exis…"-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"Because it is the hardness of the floor, and the abrupt halt in momentum, and the unyielding nature of the surface, that causes a thing to crack. Even if it is not that thing's fault. And then we tal…"-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
19. 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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. The Truth Is
By: NoNieqa Ramos
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"You want the answer to who you are to be multiple choice, fool? The answer is a three-part essay question. And remember, there is NO time limit."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"Maybe life isn't a novel all the time. Where we're always trying to see what happens in the end. Maybe sometimes it's poetry. Every syllable of living counts."-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
"I mean imagine that shit. You bust your ass as a single parent, and your kid treats the absentee parent like a rock star. But love is like water and it slides over the smooth places. Sinks into the c…"-NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is
21. 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
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