13 Best queer books like It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano

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It Sounds Like This

By: Anna Meriano

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweet and nerdy contemporary YA novel set in the world of marching band perfect for fans of Late …

"There's nothing 'just' about friends," Bloom says quietly. "Friends are the best."

-Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This

"There's nothing 'just' about friends," Bloom says quietly. "Friends are the best."

-Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This

"There's nothing 'just' about friends," Bloom says quietly. "Friends are the best."

-Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This

If you liked the queer plot in It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. A Time to Dance

By: Padma Venkatraman

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new… read more

Similar categories in Padma Venkatraman's A Time to Dance book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I can dance beauty into my body"

-Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

"You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates."

-Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

"Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you."

-Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

"Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny."

-Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

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2. How To Succeed in Witchcraft

By: Aislinn Brophy

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An overachieving teen witch vies for a prestigious scholarship at her elite high school in this con… read more

Similar categories in Aislinn Brophy's How To Succeed in Witchcraft book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. Lying in the Deep

By: Diana Urban

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A juicy mystery of jealousy, love, and betrayal set on a Semester at Sea-inspired cruise ship, with… read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's Lying in the Deep book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's Burn Down, Rise Up book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • 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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6. Plan A

By: Deb Caletti

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative … read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's Plan A book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

By: Madeline Dyer

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary storiesFrom a… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. Wren Martin Ruins It All

By: Amanda DeWitt

4.25

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Now that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s goin… read more

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Wren Martin Ruins It All book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I think I might have a crush. Shit ."

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

"Halloween would be . . . okay," she says, with all the deliberation of a somewhat uncertain judge delivering a verdict. "But no sexy catgirls. Or boys. No catpeople."

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

"You might have saved the Dance," I say loftily, "but I saved this school from Cats ." "Not all heroes wear capes," Ryan says, pushing open the classroom door. "You know, I kind of like Cats ." "You l…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

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9. Aces Wild: A Heist

By: Amanda DeWitt

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes … read more

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Aces Wild: A Heist book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Just because you didn't experience sexual attraction didn't mean you didn't you didn't experience romantic feelings. But those romantic feelings didn't look like they did in the movies because, well,…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

"It felt like a puzzle, mostly put together but with a piece missing, waiting to be filled. There were plenty of pieces to fill it- gay, straight, bisexual- but none fit quite right. Sometimes I thoug…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

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10. Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplas… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Breathe and Count Back from Ten book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You are so a physical person...You're taking up space. You're made of all this matter. What more proof do you need than that?"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

"Like maybe the "magic" isn't just about believing in mermaids; it's about believing peope like me don't exist, Like maybe admitting I've needed crutched dispels the myths we want to believe about peo…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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11. 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 Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • 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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12. Planning Perfect

By: Haley Neil

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this charming, heartfelt YA romcom about being on the asexual spectrum, a girl tries to craft th… read more

Similar categories in Haley Neil's Planning Perfect book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. Full Flight

By: Ashley Schumacher

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-thre… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Schumacher's Full Flight book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • music
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

15. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway

By: Ashley Schumacher

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Since her mother’s death, Madeline “Gwen” Hathaway has been determined that nothing in her life wil… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Schumacher's The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. No Filter and Other Lies

By: Crystal Maldonado

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You should know, right now, that I'm a liar. They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's No Filter and Other Lies book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. Forward March

By: Skye Quinlan

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What’s worse? Someone using your face for catfishing or realizing you actually do have a crush on t… read more

Similar categories in Skye Quinlan's Forward March book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • music
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Sunrise Nights

By: Jeff Zentner

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Sunrise Nights book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."

-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights

Cover of It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano

20. It Sounds Like This

By: Anna Meriano

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweet and nerdy contemporary YA novel set in the world of marching band perfect for fans of Late … read more

Similar categories in Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This book and Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

  • romance
  • music
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's nothing 'just' about friends," Bloom says quietly. "Friends are the best."

-Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This

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21. 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 Anna Meriano's It Sounds Like This

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

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