16 Top romance books like The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe

If you liked the romance plot in The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• romance
• mystery thriller
• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• queer

"I hate the whole “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else's."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

"You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you'll find one who hits back."

-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• lesbian
• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• queer

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's Afterlove book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"Same. I'm strictly clitly." - p. 81"

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"She throws her head back and laughs and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"But that's the trouble with best friends, isn't it? They know everything and forget nothing, no matter how much you want them to."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"Everyone is friends. Everyone is in love. Nothing else matters but midnight because next year will be different. We will be different. It's our year."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• mystery thriller
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller

"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Never Ever Getting Back Together book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5) book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• mystery thriller
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller

"Smallpox,' ' Zach read aloud when the page was passed to him. 'It was eradicated by the nineteen eighties,' Pip said. 'Oi, no time travel.' Jamie whacked her on the head with his master booklet."

-Holly Jackson, Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Five Survive book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• mystery thriller
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller

"That's what she said -Simon"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"His whole life has been a war, that does something to your head, I think. It's done something to my head."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"Trapped. Shut in. Only thirty-one feet to share between them, that extra foot important enough not to round down."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Ace of Spades book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• lesbian
• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• queer

"Home, lately, has been the highlight of my day."

-Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

"People love to reward conventionally attractive people."

-Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

"But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope."

-Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

"Money can only get you so far; you need power and influence to go with it."

-Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Family is complicated, Hani. Everyone has a different relationship with their family."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Right now, all men seem overwhelmingly unattractive - except the ones on the Netflix shows I watch."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

"Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality. And girls more as a reality than a concept."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3) book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• romance
• mystery thriller
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller

"Not then and there. Here and now."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Machines didn’t lie, only people did."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Well,’ Pip smiled, ‘I’m still me.’ She hoped that was true."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"The game had changed.Her against them.Save herself to save herself."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

• romance
• lesbian
• 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

Similar categories in Alyson Derrick's Forget Me Not book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

Similar categories in Jen St. Jude's If Tomorrow Doesn't Come book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"There's nothing to know." Except I'm in love with you, I can never tell you that, and I know you'll be happier without me."

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"We were never just friends, were we?’ I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t fee…"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"If I was drowning on land, in oxygen, maybe the floor of the river was the only place I’d be able to breathe. [...] I thought, again, I’m so tired. I’m such a disappointment. I don’t want to do this …"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's The Falling in Love Montage book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's Ophelia After All book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"HAMLET MAY HAVE BEEN A TRAGEDY. BUT OPHELIA DESERVED A COMEDY"

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"It's been hard and messy and scary. I want you guys to care about it and what it changes for me, but without it changing us."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"But I don’t think the truest love is deemed so because it’s the most painful. Waiting for someone to love you back seems beautiful in a miserable way when you’re young. No offense."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been

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

"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler