10 must-read gay books like Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney

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Girl Crushed

By: Katie Heaney

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Leah on the Offbeat meets We Are Okay in this pitch-perfect queer romance about falling in love and…

"I miss Ariana Grande!"

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

"I miss Ariana Grande!"

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

"I would feel bad for them if they weren't also the biggest crybabies in history, faking fouls left and right like a professional men's team at the World Cup."

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

"I would feel bad for them if they weren't also the biggest crybabies in history, faking fouls left and right like a professional men's team at the World Cup."

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

If you liked the gay plot in Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. It's Not Like It's a Secret

By: Misa Sugiura

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when h… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's It's Not Like It's a Secret book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. 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 Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • 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

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3. 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 Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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5. Cool for the Summer

By: Dahlia Adler

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"What am I? It's one summer. You can't change into a different person over a summer."

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"I think about that handshake a lot, because it reassures me that it was clearly just a friendly suggestion. I had no idea what it would spark."

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"I don't even realize we're falling out of our chairs until we land on the sand, our laughter floating into the summer night amid the crackling flames until our mouths find each other again and there'…"

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

"If being bi means always knowing, well, that isn't me. The only girls on my bedroom walls are my friends, and I'm certainly not into any of them that way. That settles it. I'm straight. Just like I a…"

-Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

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6. She Drives Me Crazy

By: Kelly Quindlen

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

High school nemeses fall in love in this queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume,…"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative …"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

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7. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. 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 Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. The Ride of Her Life

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer r… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's The Ride of Her Life book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"She's coming undone right in front of me and it's turning me on. It should not be turning me on."

-Jennifer Dugan, The Ride of Her Life

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10. Orpheus Girl

By: Brynne Rebele-Henry

3.65

Format: 176 pages, None

In her debut novel, award-winning poet Brynne Rebele-Henry re-imagines the Orpheus myth as a love s… read more

Similar categories in Brynne Rebele-Henry's Orpheus Girl book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You know, the thing about family is that you can choose it. And I choose you."

-Brynne Rebele-Henry, Orpheus Girl

"But I do look back. I do. Because she’s so beautiful and I’m so scared of going somewhere without her because my whole life, even before I knew it, I’ve always had Sarah. And when I look back at her,…"

-Brynne Rebele-Henry, Orpheus Girl

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11. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Some Girls Do book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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12. Melt With You

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a sweet and salty queer YA rom-com about two girls on a summe… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Melt With You book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. No Boy Summer

By: Amy Spalding

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Lydia and her younger sister Penny make a pact to avoid boy drama for the summer—but Lydia can’t he… read more

Similar categories in Amy Spalding's No Boy Summer book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Hot Dog Girl

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her li… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Hot Dog Girl book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I’m not too big for this town, Dad. I never will be."

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"I know I don’t have the face of a woman who walks into an office and demands answers - I have the faces of a girl trying to be too many things at once."

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"And I get it now, I that’s all he could ever be, that’s all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all of the good stuff got lef…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

"I flick my eyes to the spot on her shoulder where her freckles match the constellations in the sky, and I smile. I get lost in her skin, sipping my drink and mapping the stars on her arm while everyo…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl

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15. Something to Talk About

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Something to Talk About book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"They kissed slowly. Gently. Like they couldn't believe they were allowed to."

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

"Jo called her preferred coffee shop the next morning, the one where Emma picked up her latte every day. She added an iced chai to her standing order. It was something she did sometimes, after late-ni…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

"She hadn’t had to apologize out loud then, because her apology was changed behavior, never letting anything like that happen again. Jo needed to do the same. Emma has forgiven too many people in her …"

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

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16. Sizzle Reel

By: Carlyn Greenwald

3.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An unputdownable queer coming-of-age rom-com about life and love in Hollywood. For aspiring ci… read more

Similar categories in Carlyn Greenwald's Sizzle Reel book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"This kiss is so massively different from the first two. There's no salty taste to this one, no struggling to breathe through hiccuping sobs. No eyes on us, no modesty, no hesitation. But this beautif…"

-Carlyn Greenwald, Sizzle Reel

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17. Hot Summer

By: Elle Everhart

3.78

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Sparks fly when a young woman finds herself cast on a Love Island-inspired reality show and has to … read more

Similar categories in Elle Everhart's Hot Summer book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. 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 Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. I Kissed Alice

By: Anna Birch

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and Fangirl, I Kissed Alice is a romantic comedy abou… read more

Similar categories in Anna Birch's I Kissed Alice book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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20. Never Kiss Your Roomate

By: Philline Harms

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Seven Hills, the world’s most exclusive boarding school where only the best and brightes… read more

Similar categories in Philline Harms's Never Kiss Your Roomate book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney

21. Girl Crushed

By: Katie Heaney

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Leah on the Offbeat meets We Are Okay in this pitch-perfect queer romance about falling in love and… read more

Similar categories in Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed book and Katie Heaney's Girl Crushed

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I miss Ariana Grande!"

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

"I would feel bad for them if they weren't also the biggest crybabies in history, faking fouls left and right like a professional men's team at the World Cup."

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

"On several occasions she'd half jokingly maybe quarter jokingly, told me she was glad I was gay if only because it meant no boyfriend or husband of mine would ever murder me. What a relief."

-Katie Heaney, Girl Crushed

18 Best audiobook books like Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney

Transform Your Habits

Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

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

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Cleat Cute

Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Cool for the Summer

Dahlia Adler

3.77

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21 must-read fiction books like Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Transform Your Habits

Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

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

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Love at First Set

Jennifer Dugan

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

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