Just reading my way around the world.
Title: What If It’s Us? Author(s): Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Genre: LGBTQIA+, YA, Romance Summary: Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe…
Title: Leah on the Offbeat Author: Becky Albertalli Genre: YA Fiction, Romance, LGBTQIA+ Summary: Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life…
Title: The Upside of Unrequited Author: Becky Albertalli Genre: YA, Romance, LGBTQIA+ Summary: Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection.…
Title: Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda Author: Becky Albertalli Genre: Young adult, LGBTQIA+, Romance Summary: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if…
