18 Best romance books like Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Cover of Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Felix Ever After

By: Kacen Callender

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a …

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

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"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

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

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

If you liked the romance plot in Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1) by Alice Oseman

1. I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

By: Alice Oseman

4.03

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

For Angel Rahimi, life is only about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are c… read more

Similar categories in Alice Oseman's I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1) book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I am not afraid, said Noah I was born for this"."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"If we can talk about anxiety, we can talk about poo. They’re basically the same thing."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

"And the three of us laugh. And I imagine this must be what it's like to have real friends."

-Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

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2. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

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3. Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

By: Alice Oseman

4.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about l… read more

Similar categories in Alice Oseman's Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5) book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Una parte de la intimidad consiste en confiar en alguien lo suficiente como para renunciar a una parte de ese control. Y eso, a veces, es muy difícil. Pero es importante que recuerdes que, si Nick y …"

-Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Cover of Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

4. Felix Ever After

By: Kacen Callender

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a … read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

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

-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

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5. You Should See Me in a Crown

By: Leah Johnson

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, … read more

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

  • romance
  • 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

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6. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

Cover of I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) by Mason Deaver

7. I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

By: Mason Deaver

4.16

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to … read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Whatever happens"

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"The world’s too loud sometimes."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"This kid, Nathan, laughs like it's his favourite thing in the world to do."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"Bodies are fucking weird, especially when it feels like you don't belong in your own."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

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8. Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.27

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx famil… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • 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)

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9. Act Cool

By: Tobly McSmith

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Named a Rainbow Book List Title and one of Bank Street Children's Best Books of the Year. A tran… read more

Similar categories in Tobly McSmith's Act Cool book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"My reality is that I was born in the wrong body. Their reality is an old book full of rules, and if you follow the rules then you go to heaven. How real is that? More real than me?"

-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool

"Love can be good and beautiful, like me and Davina. But sometimes it can be a fever dream running hot and cold, leaving you with art that looks like someone took a poop on a canvas."

-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool

"Each trans and nonbinary person is like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Some people are more comfortable in their body and don’t need surgery or hormone therapy, and others do. No one way is right …"

-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool

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10. Loveless

By: Alice Oseman

4.20

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I ha… read more

Similar categories in Alice Oseman's Loveless book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"God, I am sad gay and alone"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

" Some little comedy play? Apologize to Oscar Wilde right the fuck now!"

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"I wasn’t going to die alone. I was going to try harder. I wanted forever love. I didn’t want to be loveless."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

-Alice Oseman, Loveless

Cover of The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

11. The Henna Wars

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's The Henna Wars book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Angst with happy ending by Weronika Łodyga

12. Angst with happy ending

By: Weronika Łodyga

3.63

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Życie siedemnastoletniego Aleksandra nie jest usłane różami. W domu wciąż brakuje pieniędzy, mama z… read more

Similar categories in Weronika Łodyga's Angst with happy ending book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Pomyśl o tym jak o byciu jedynym bez okularów w grupie okularników. To, że ich nie masz, nie znaczy, że jesteś gorszy i czegoś ci brakuje. Po prostu nie potrzebujesz ich, żeby dobrze funkcjonować."

-Weronika Łodyga, Angst with happy ending

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13. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

14. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

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15. She Gets the Girl

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) by Aiden Thomas

16. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

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17. The Black Flamingo

By: Dean Atta

4.35

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his w… read more

Similar categories in Dean Atta's The Black Flamingo book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Don’t let anyone tell you that you are half anything."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"Be a bit gay, be very gay. Be the glitter that shows up in unexpected places."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"To have a loving family is to feel afraid and yet believe you are going to be all right."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"I know that’s wrong, my thinking was wrong, the different ones are often the most strong"

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

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18. Hurt/Comfort

By: Weronika Łodyga

3.84

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Artur ma osiemnaście lat i nie wie jeszcze wielu rzeczy. Nie wie, jak zacząć rozmowę z własnym ojce… read more

Similar categories in Weronika Łodyga's Hurt/Comfort book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

19. I Kissed Shara Wheeler

By: Casey McQuiston

3.88

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a deb… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • 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

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

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Cover of The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

20. The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fitzsimons's The Passing Playbook book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"

-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook

Cover of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

21. One Last Stop

By: Casey McQuiston

3.92

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: t… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop book and Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Every woman a universe."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Hey, Coffee Girl." "Hey, Subway Girl."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

21 must-read fiction books like Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

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I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

Alice Oseman

4.03

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Alice Oseman

4.49

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Kacen Callender

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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