30 must-read lgbt books like This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie

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This Is Me Trying

By: Racquel Marie

4.20

Format: None pages, None

Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour, This is Me Trying is a profound and tender YA contemporary novel e…

If you liked the lgbt plot in This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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2. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Here We Go Again book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. Every Time You Hear That Song

By: Jenna Voris

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a ques… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Voris's Every Time You Hear That Song book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. We Got the Beat

By: Jenna Miller

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jordan Elliot is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor-in-chief of the scho… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's We Got the Beat book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's On the Bright Side book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Teenage Dirtbags

By: James Acker

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an… read more

Similar categories in James Acker's Teenage Dirtbags book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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11. 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

Similar categories in Edward Underhill's This Day Changes Everything book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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13. Triple Sec

By: T.J. Alexander

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Triple Sec book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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15. Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. … read more

Similar categories in Parisa Akhbari's Just Another Epic Love Poem book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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16. 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 Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Everyone's Thinking It

By: Aleema Omotoni

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this big-hearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about… read more

Similar categories in Aleema Omotoni's Everyone's Thinking It book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. You Had Me at Happy Hour

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this sexy, emotionally satisfying LGBTQIA+ romance, a grumpy sommelier and a flirty mixologist j… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Janovsky's You Had Me at Happy Hour book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of You're the Problem, It's You (Mischief & Matchmaking, #2) by Emma R. Alban

19. You're the Problem, It's You (Mischief & Matchmaking, #2)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, in wh… read more

Similar categories in Emma R. Alban's You're the Problem, It's You (Mischief & Matchmaking, #2) book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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20. 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 Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. Make My Wish Come True

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sapphic Netflix-esque Christmas movie meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days​ from the New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's Make My Wish Come True book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie

22. This Is Me Trying

By: Racquel Marie

4.20

Format: None pages, None

Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour, This is Me Trying is a profound and tender YA contemporary novel e… read more

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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23. Exes & Foes

By: Amanda Woody

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl's heart, they don't expect t… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Woody's Exes & Foes book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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24. 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 Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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25. The Last Love Song

By: Kalie Holford

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

After high school graduation, Mia Peters faces a summer full of painful goodbyes. Songwriting is he… read more

Similar categories in Kalie Holford's The Last Love Song book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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26. Prince of the Palisades

By: Julian Winters

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Young Royals meets Red, White, and Royal Blue in this heart-pumping romance by award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Julian Winters's Prince of the Palisades book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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27. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram

28. I'll Have What He's Having

By: Adib Khorram

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A smart, tender, vivacious romantic comedy about mistaken identities, the line between love and sex… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's I'll Have What He's Having book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

29. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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30. Whenever You're Ready

By: Rachel Runya Katz

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

After reconnecting on a road trip, two friends must decide if love is the ultimate risk worth takin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Runya Katz's Whenever You're Ready book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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31. The Ghost of You

By: Michael Gray Bulla

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of If I Can Give You That comes an emotional novel that follows a transgender teen … read more

Similar categories in Michael Gray Bulla's The Ghost of You book and Racquel Marie's This Is Me Trying

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • contemporary
  • queer

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Ann Zhao

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