16 must-read lgbt books like You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

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Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• 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 Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• fiction
• young adult

"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

Similar categories in Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

"The best education is one you get in the world."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"I don’t believe in putting a question mark where God put a period."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Did you know you have the chance to be the first black queen in Campbell history?"

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

"But now your mess is my mess, too."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"What are you going to do, stab me ?"

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Maritza smiled. "Let's do this, brujo."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Julian's chuckle was wet. "Valió ... la pena."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"This whole time she's swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• young adult contemporary
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Lies have long legs."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"When we played, we were all the same. We were all one."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• 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 Adiba Jaigirdar's The Henna Wars book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

""

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"

-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• 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 Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• 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 Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• 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 Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• young adult contemporary
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"You're the author on your own life story."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"The whole of me is black. The whole of me is whole."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• 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 Laura Taylor Namey's A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• young adult contemporary
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"there? Emotion burns my throat."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"yes. I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's Ophelia After All book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• romance
• lesbian
• audiobook
• young adult contemporary
• 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 Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

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

"She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside book and Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown

• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary