#there’s been some incredible YA fiction getting published recently and i’m sooooo here for it

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Any book recommendations??

omg YES!! you’re actually in luck since i’ve been spending like all my time reading recently and it’s been so so nice:

autoboyagraphy by christina lauren: so this was the first book i read in quarantine and oh my GOD was it beautiful. i already wanna read it again tbh. it deals with internalized and some externalized homophobia in such a real way and man, i just wanna hug these two guys :((( and also scream at them a little because i just wish they could get out of their own heads for a second but also i totally understand why they did the things they did too

radio silence by alice oseman: i’m pretty sure i’ve talked about this book here before but omg if you haven’t read it what are you doing with your life?? alice is one of my favorite authors now and the way she writes about that feeling of finishing school and not knowing what to do with your life is so so real and tbh, really helped me feel better after i dropped out of my old college. also like every major character is queer which is such a lovely bonus 💕💕 (and you may recognize a certain someone who makes a cameo about halfway through!)

yes no maybe so by becky albertalli and aisha saeed: this is by far the most IMPORTANT book i’ve read in quarantine. it deals with elections and campaigning and racism sooooo well and the romance is freaking adorable. it also shows you just how important local elections can be which is AMAZING and literally perfect for this year. i feel like it should be required reading for any young person voting this year tbh

tell me again how a crush should feel by sara farizan: omg so the narrator of this book? is the actual BEST like her voice actually had me dying at points. also it’s a lesbian POC romance which!!! you literally NEVER see and it makes my representation loving heart so happy 💓💓💓 (there is some emotional manipulation done by one of the characters tho so just a tiny warning there!)

moving on to stuff i read a couple years ago, i highly recommend the hate u give by angie thomas, we are okay by nina lacour, and i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson, which are all soooo well written and deal with some really great issues. the hate u give is literally perfect for right now and sooooo so powerful and makes you think a lot about how fucked up the world is. we are okay and i’ll give you the sun are both soooo beautifully written too and helped me a lot when i was so depressed in 2018/2019. all three of these are books i really really wanna read again now actually but i should probably try to finish the 6 ebooks i’ve borrowed from my library first sjskjdkdnd

oh yeah, if i haven’t mentioned already, most of these are queer romances (which is my preference now in YA since i find straight romances boring unless the characters are dealing with something really important shksnsks) or have queer characters although if you like straight romances, sarah dessen is the absolute QUEEN! i read almost all her books when i was in high school and i’m now catching up on her more recent ones and shit, they’re all sooooo good and deal with some huge issues too! i just finished once and for all and i’m almost done with the rest of the story and fell in love with all the characters and the setting and everything really.... they’re both just so GOOD!!!

finally, a couple random finds that i ended up really loving last year are the fragile ordinary by samantha young and amelia westlake was never here (which is the american title, everywhere else it’s just amelia westlake) by erin gough. they both deal with some really important topics (hmmm i’m sensing a pattern here lmao) and the latter is a wlw romance which is really just the cherry on top!