26 Top fiction books like This Doesn't Mean Anything by Sarah Whalen

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Similar categories in Danielle Vega's Survive the Night book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

Similar categories in Wataru Hinekure's 消えた初恋 5 [Kieta Hatsukoi 5] book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• new adult
• 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

Similar categories in Jae's Bachelorette Number Twelve book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Dr. Regina Novak was all the stereotypes about doctors with God complexes rolled into one five-foot-ten package—an admittedly gorgeous package, but that was beside the point."

-Jae, Bachelorette Number Twelve

Similar categories in Kasie West's Lonely Hearts Day book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• fiction
• young adult
• contemporary

"I talk about it."

-Kasie West, Lonely Hearts Day

"Do you want me to stay?"

-Kasie West, Lonely Hearts Day

"it’s a day to celebrate love."

-Kasie West, Lonely Hearts Day

"Don’t worry before you have to."

-Kasie West, Lonely Hearts Day

Similar categories in Amanda Woody's They Hate Each Other book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Wren Martin Ruins It All book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• lgbt
• 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

Similar categories in Claire Kann's The Romantic Agenda book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"Joy didn't settle for friendship with Malcolm. She welcomed in, making a choice, and stood by it and him for ten years."

-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda

"You know how in games you have a save point? No matter what happens you go back to that point when you run out of lives. Meeting him that day was too important. I can't go back beyond that moment."

-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda

"Doesn't he realize Joy incorporated yellow cake for him because it's his favorite? When he eats it, will he notice how she held back on the sweetness for him too? That she chose tangy raspberries ove…"

-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda

"She has being a supportive best friend mastered and down pat. They're already affectionate. They have ten years of history behind them. They barely have any secrets. But something must change when th…"

-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda

Similar categories in Aaron H. Aceves's This Is Why They Hate Us book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

Similar categories in Whitney Hanson's Home book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• queer
• lgbt

"There are some people who are just meant to be a sunrise for you."

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"i know that right now you want to run to them but closed arms will not hold you and careless hearts will not heal you"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"dear empathy, please stop telling me that it’s okay when they hurt me stop allowing me to accept the knife you see in their side is a reasonable excuse for them to put two in mine please stop introdu…"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"i told you that you remind me of springtime and i didn’t lie i just forgot that seasons are temporary you can’t tell spring to stay the same way you can’t ask the sun not to set but sometimes i can c…"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

Similar categories in M.A. Wardell's Mistletoe and Mishigas (Teachers in Love, #2) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Aces Wild: A Heist book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• 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

Similar categories in Camille Pagán's This Won't End Well book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"She beamed at me. "You're such a smart girl, Annie." I thanked her, because even though I think intelligence is mostly a construct made of curiosity, opportunity, and plain old hard work, sometimes i…"

-Camille Pagán, This Won't End Well

Similar categories in Shou Harusono's 佐々木と宮野 3 [Sasaki to Miyano 3] book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in N.R. Walker's Upside Down book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"He quoted Lewis Carroll,"

-N.R. Walker, Upside Down

"He snorted. “I don’t think your dick is stupid."

-N.R. Walker, Upside Down

"All I want really big and rock-hard on a guy is his IQ, and what I consider to be hardcore porn is a picture of a guy reading a book with a hard cover. Soft-core porn is a paperback, and browsing Ama…"

-N.R. Walker, Upside Down

Similar categories in Celestine Martin's Witchful Thinking (Elemental Love, #1) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in June C.L. Tan's Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in M.A. Wardell's Teacher of the Year (Teachers in Love, #1) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Claire Kann's Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Haley Neil's Planning Perfect book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Edward Underhill's Always the Almost book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Sher Lee's Fake Dates and Mooncakes book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

"We have the destiny to meet across a thousand miles."

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"I'm not sure which knife on my place mat is for cutting the tension"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"Grief has a way of sneaking up on you when you're least expecting it. A song, a phrase, a scent...then you're falling into an empty space inside that you thought you'd patched. That you thought could…"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"I shrug. "He lives in a huge mansion and drives a Ferrari. I ride a bike with a squeaky front wheel. Our worlds are as far apart as the sun and the moon." "They align every now and then," Aunt Jade p…"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Marissa Serrao's Between Mischief & Magic (Love X Magic) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• adult
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Cody Daigle-Orians's I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• asexual
• adult
• lgbt
• queer

"Our culture weaponizes wanting or not wanting sex across many different identities and experiences as a way to marginalize them. It's not exclusive to asexuality."

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"When confronted with someone who breaks the norm, some people find it easier to call that person's experience a fiction instead of altering their understanding of the world to include something new."

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"Anyone who asserts they're owed your disclosure is also working from the assumption that they're also owed your sexuality. And you owe no one either of those things. They're yours to share with someo…"

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"Unlike allosexual people who make the assumption that everyone should want and enjoy sex as much as they do, sex-averse and sex-repulsed ace folks are making choices about their own bodies and their …"

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• fiction
• young adult
• contemporary

"On Thursdays, they come here for the best palomas in town, thanks to my substitution of Jamaican tangelos and blood limes for the traditional grapefruit. And on Fridays, they come for half-price pork…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"I would appreciate it if you'd turn it down." He tries to wrestle out of Pen's grasp. "It's a free country." "I'm actually aware of that," Pen says. "Which means you are free to choose self-preservat…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"I list what I had for breakfast. I whisper the ingredients for my signature coconut cake. I take a deep breath, the scents of a thousand shifts at the restaurant tucked into the fabric of the front s…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

"We've reached that point in the night when we're slinging more drinks than tacos, and the Frankenstein monsters on our menu- which I'd created specifically for the inebriated- are flooding the line. …"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Margherita Scialla's Pillow Forts and Hurricanes (Sandwort University Adventures Book 1) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

Similar categories in Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

• romance
• asexual
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• new adult
• bisexual
• queer

Similar categories in Margherita Scialla's Tears in the Water book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything

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

"I trust you to handle my heart with care"

-Margherita Scialla, Tears in the Water

Similar categories in Megan Mackie's The Vilification of Aqua Marine (Working Mask, #1) book and Sarah Whalen's This Doesn't Mean Anything