#aroace books

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: Indigenous authors

This post is combining global Indigenous identities, not soley North American!

Elatsoe - YA fantasy / Lipan Apache / aro-coded ace MC

A Snake Falls To Earth - YA fantasy / Lipan Apache / ace MC

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - YA contemporary / Indigenous Canadian/Métis / demisexual MC

The Witch King - YA fantasy / Seminole / demisexual LI, ace SC

Godly Heathens - YA fantasy / Seminole / demiromantic MC

Màgòdiz - dystopian/fantasy / I believe the author identifies as 'having Mi'kmaq/Anishinabe heritage while not being registered' / an aroace MC

Muneera and the Moon - folktale anthology / Palestinian / some with ace characters or queerplatonic themes (author also has lots of other short fiction!)

Odd Blood - paranormal romcom / Kanaka Maoli / demisexual MC

The Bone People - litfic / Māori / aroace coded MC

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

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[finnlongman]

For the last day of Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, I made the aroace pride flag out of the spines of the books in The Butterfly Assassin trilogy 🥰

Here's a post with some more information about the symbolism of the aroace flag! I saw it for the first time earlier this month when a friend reblogged some art using it, and I really like it; it's a great vibe, visually, but I also like the meanings of the stripes. It made me very happy to realise I could form it with my books, even if the darker blue of Moth to a Flame looks far less distinct from the light blue of The Butterfly Assassin in photos (I have no idea why, but that always happens).

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

More aroace book recs

Comes out April 16

Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao. Sophie Chi is in her first year at Wellesley College (despite her parents' wishes that she attend a "real" university, rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aromantic and asexual identities. Despite knowing she'll never fall in love, she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at Wellesley. No one except her roommate knows that she's behind the incredibly popular "Dear Wendy" account. When Joanna "Jo" Ephron —also a first-year student at Wellesley— created their "Sincerely Wanda" account, it wasn't at all meant to be serious or take off like it does—not like Dear Wendy's. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Dear Wendy? Oops. As if Jo's not busy enough having existential crises over gender, the fact that she'll never truly be loved or be enough, or her few friends finding The One and forgetting her! While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo are getting closer in real life, bonding over their shared aroace identities. As their friendship develops and they work together to start a campus organization for other a-spec students, can their growing bond survive if they learn just who's behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts? With its exploration of a-spec identities, college life, and more, this platonic comedy, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Half of It and Alice Oseman's Loveless, is ultimately a love story about two people who are not—and will not—be in love!

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Mock cover for Kaikeyi.

[lexalovesbooks]

five books with aroace main characters you say....please share 👀

You are super in luck anon because almost as soon as i posted that I started compiling a list of all the ace/aro-spec books I could remember reading, these are all across a big variety of genres and age categories but all the mcs fall somewhere on the aro-ace spectrum (and personal faves are bolded)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire: I think most people here know this one. A world where children sometimes disappear through magical doorways to other worlds, and sometimes return. When this happens, they usually are desperate to find a way back. Nancy is one of these children, looking for a way back to an underworld of living statues that has become her home while also trying to find a murderer at the boarding school full of other children looking for their own doorways back to their worlds. Asexual mc

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman: Rumi, a teenager whose younger sister recently died, moves to Hawaii to spend a few months with her aunt, where she tries to piece together who she is without her sister and rediscover her love of songwriting, something she and her sister always did together. Aro-ace questioning mc

Forward March by Skye Quinlan: Harper, a student at a prestigious high school whose father is running for president, deals with school, marching band, and a presidential campaign all while trying to figure out if she really likes the girl and fellow bandmate who recently was catfished by someone pretending to be Harper. Ace lesbian mc

All Systems Red by Martha Wells: This one is pretty popular too, idc. Murderbot is a self-named human-bot construct (think cyborg, but manufactured specifically for security purposes) who hacked its own governer module to gain free will, and then used that free will to continue doing its job while watching thousands of hours worth of space soap operas. Unfortunately, its existence of efficiently half-assing keeping humans safe is disrupted by a group of clients who end up in hot water, all while being unexpectedly concerned with its state of freedom and the status of its personhood. Aro-ace agender mc

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger: Elatsoe, also known as Ellie, is a young Lipan Apache girl who has a dream where her cousin tells her the name of his killer—the morning before she wakes up to the news of his death. She and her parents travel to the town he lived and died in and work to comfort his grieving family while searching for evidence that will prove the killer, a well-liked community figure, is guilty. Also features faeries, ghosts, and other paranormal and mythical creatures. Asexual mc

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic: ANOTHER very well-known tumblr book! Whatever, not gonna try to explain the plot, these are the lacrosse murder books you’ve heard of them and if you haven’t you can look up a summary. Mc is word-of-god demisexual but also it’s so evident in canon even without being explicitly stated that I personally don't even think you need the disclaimer

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson: In a world where dead spirits regularly rise from deceased bodies to devour and possess the living, Artemisia is a nun-in-training who will one day cleanse the bodies of the recently deceased so that their souls can move on to the afterlife. Then, she releases an ancient and dangerous spirit from a relic to protect her convent from attack. The spirit possesses her body and gives her extraordinary power—but the spirit isn't necessarily on her side, and it's unclear if the connection formed between the two of them can safely be severed. Asexual mc (not explicit bc it's fantasy, but I think it's pretty obvious even without the exact word used)

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace: In a dystopian world torn apart by two rival corporations, Mallory is one of many people who find refuge in a virtual reality game that allows you to enter battle, earn real-life credits for sorely-needed necessities like water, and interact with virtual, computer-created versions of the league of supersoldiers that protect her home city from attack. Mallory has had a parasocial obsession with one of these supersoldiers—22—for years, until one day she gets caught in an attack that results in her meeting the flesh-and-blood version of the celebrity/superpowered protector. As she spends more time with 22 and his paired operative, she begins to see just how deep the corruption of the company that controls her city runs—and also begins to wonder what she can do to help the city and everyone who lives in it. Aro-ace mc

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao: Two freshman college students bond over their experiences with being aro-ace and work together to form an aro-ace-spectrum community at their college. At the same time, both students anonymously run rival relationship advice accounts on instagram, and spend their free time engaging in mostly-joking insults with each other. Aro-ace mc, aro-ace non-binary mc

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White: Miles is a teen living in the Appalachian South, who finds himself caught up in the crossfire of a centuries-long feud between his family and another, significantly more powerful family living in the same town. In the aftermath of a violent assault that lands him in the hospital, he and a childhood friend engage in a revenge quest that quickly begins spiraling out of control. At the same time Miles deals with shifting family dynamics in the wake of him coming out as transgender, and an apparition of a long-dead ancestor that no one but him can see. Aromantic trans mc

Those are all the ones I feel like writing out full summaries for, but some other books that I really like with aroace mcs are The Diviners by Libba Bray (ace lesbian mc in second book), The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (word-of-god aroace mc), The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (word-of-god aroace secondary character), and The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards (word-of-god demisexual gay mc, ace secondary character). The one thing I haven't really read any of is books with aroallo main characters :( If anyone has recs for those, please feel free to share!

[franticvampirereads]

This was so good! It was dark and atmospheric and I just wanted to get lost within its pages. Because somehow this book was so comforting even when it was at its darkest. And the relationship between Artemisia and the revenant was the best! Their bickering was so much fun to read. And their progression from enemies to reluctant allies to friends was just so good! I also really loved the magic system and the spirits and how religion played into every aspect of it all. There was just something about this book that hooked me right from the start and didn’t let me go until the very end. Vespertine was just so good and it’s getting five stars!

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2024:

"the grimrose girls"

laura pohl

“they are an allegory of what happens in real life. girls get beaten up and die. it's a warning, to live chastely. that if you're a good girl, you get to live”

[smolldust]

I finally got it

[princey-poetry]

Id like to read more queer books does anyone have any recommendations for for queer books? I'm not really picky about genres or types of books I'll kind of just read anything

[theemptybloggercometh]

I've just finished this great book, The Secrets of Blythswood Square, a novel set in 1840's Glasgow. One of the many things I love about this book is how Charlotte, one of the main characters, is so aroace coded.

Take a look:

[This list does contain spoilers]

"For my part" she continues "I regret not having a family . But I am not the romantic sort...it is not in me"

Perhaps understanding why people seem to need such connections will illuminate the issue.

[After declining her hand in marriage, her would be suitor says] "Most gentlemen seek a mirror but I prefer a view. A window" [Charlotte wonders if] she is neither mirror or window. She worries she might be a wall.

Other girls were always excited when they talked about parties, balls, suitors and weddings but being out in society did not suit Charlotte

Charlotte shudders. Watching other girls dancing, a man's hand on their waist, induces a cold kind of panic

[He father once told her she'll marry when she's ready] She had been unable to explain that the problem was not her age, it was that marriage did not interest her

The attraction people feel for each other is tide that pulls them unbidden, an undercurrent that seems impossible to resist. Thought she has no interest in dipping in her toe

She still could no quite find the words for the act of love. Just be because I do not wish carnal knowledge - yes, that is it.

[aroaessidhe]

a few indie aspec books I noticed have been added to queer liberation library recently!

[my-safe-space99]

AroAce Book Recs - GO!

major bookworm over here and i would love to consume some stories with aro, ace, or aroace characters (preferably protagonists) in them

i've already read "loveless" by the wonderful Alice Oseman and i need more characters to relate to because Georgia Warr is me

[redbirdandhersafespace]

So I've finally got my copy of "Loveless" by Alice Oseman. It was so good! I wish I could read it a couple of years ago during the 1st year of uni (unfortunately I enrolled during the pandemic so I missed lots of bonding activities and clubs). I'm graduating next month so everything that happens in this book already feels so nostalgic to me.

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

More aroace book recs

Just found this book, and while it hasn’t come out yet it sounds like something out of my wildest dreams (comes out january 29)

Autistic aroace main character and queer side characters

“A great death is in the air” Arlo is lost. He thought he had everything figured out. Go to university, fall in love, get a job. But life doesn't always work like that, and before he has a chance to figure it out, he dies. In the space of a night, Arlo is plunged into a world of blood and immortality and finds a group of people who swear to always have his back. Dying is never easy, and they promise him eternal safety. But something is after him, something no one could have ever predicted. He craves to figure out his purpose before he falls into something he can never come back from.

There’s also vampires

[aspec-friendly-reading]

Deeplight by Frances Hardinge contains no sexual content and barely any romantic content!

In terms of romantic content, a relatively major side character mentions that he did something because he was in love with a girl, but that's the most detail there is if I remember correctly.

Genre: fantasy and horror. Young adult.

Thank you!