Gay fi

She Gets the Girl

Author: Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick

Release Date: April 5th, 2022

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If you want a gay, dual perspective, enemies to friends to lovers story written by a real life couple, this is the book for you!

This Love

Author: Lotte Jeffs

Release Date: January 14th, 2025

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One of the most amazing parts of queerness is friendship. The Last Love Song

Author: Kalie Holford

Release Date: April 9th, 2024

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In this dual perspective YA book, Mia Peters is faced with one last challenge before the end of her summer after high-school.

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40. From pedophilic sex parties to falling in love with a friend, this book has everything. This book works both as an introduction to butch/femme dynamics and as a powerful and earnest story for people who are already deeply familiar. Is the celebrity chef who she seems?

I was sobbing, laughing, and smiling idiotically at various points while reading this book.

5. It got fairly middling reviews on Goodreads but I’m convinced it’s only because people didn’t understand what they were getting into when they started. It’s so beautiful how being around other queer people can help you to find yourself, and that was captured really well in this story.

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As I followed her journey through youth into adulthood, I found myself rooting for the character while simultaneously understanding her mistakes.

34. Both Can Be True is a story of two kids who attempt to care for a dog in secret. But with age, I’ve come […]

I was chatting with a friend the other day about Chat GPT and how insightful it can be.

Late to the Party

Author: Kelly Quindlen

Release Date: April 21st, 2020

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This was the perfect, light, YA coming of age story.

As always, Emezi’s prose is beautifully constructed and manages to strike exactly the right balance between simplicity and elegance. To be honest, I was expecting this book to be a slog due to how “educational” it was purported to be, but in fact this was just the opposite. I Want You More

Author: Swan Huntley

Release Date: May 21st, 2024

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This book was so good and fun!

There’s gay sex, gender bending, and identity building in this fabulous series that puts a magical spin on ancient Chinese warfare.

14. Reid takes on topics of race, gender, sexuality, and power dynamics all within the world of University of Arkansas.

23. I find these responses very interesting and, honestly, quite on […]

A few months ago, I shared my experience at Camp FI Rocky Mountains 2024 and an unexpected lesson I learned about inheritance laws.

Rahmani’s novel is not a love story in the conventional sense, it’s a literary fiction novel of a Muslim academic who’s struggling to get by and to find herself in the world. This book is partially told via transcription and partially via actual prose, and yet it somehow works so well together.