Top Ten is an amazing book that looks at the complexities of friendship, mental health, love, and identity through the top ten moments in a relationship. The story is about the lives of Gabby and Ryan, two high school seniors who are very different from each other. Gabby is introverted and socially anxious, while Ryan is a charming, extroverted hockey star. Throughout high school, the two have to deal with their own personal challenges.
Frequent Fliers is a romance novel written by Noué Kirwan. This book follows the story of Lanie. Lanie’s life is a mess, she is working on completing her Ph.D. leaving her working a job she doesn't really enjoy. Oh, and her love life is an even bigger mess. On her flight back to her family she is sat next to a man named Ridley. They spend the flight talking together and really enjoy each other’s company, but after the flight they part ways.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an amazing and detailed historical fiction novel set in 1950s San Francisco, during the Red Scare, when there was a lot of cultural conservatism in America. The book is about 17-year-old Lily Hu, a Chinese American girl living in Chinatown, who is dealing with the struggles of her identity, family expectations and love. Lily is a very smart student who dreams of working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Our Infinite Fates is an amazing fantasy that explores love, fate, identity and more! The story is about Evelyn, a girl who is reborn over and over again- in different countries, different centuries and even different genders. All she know is that she dies before her eighteenth birthday by a person named Arden. In this book, Evelyn becomes reincarnated as Branwen in Wales and must survive long enough to help her little sister, Gracie, who desperately needs a bone marrow transplant.
The Ballad of Never After is a captivating fantasy book about a girl named Evangeline. It was always said in her world that no one should make a deal with the fates because they always take more than you can give. Despite the warnings, Evangeline makes a deal with the Prince of Hearts to get her true love. Little does she know this deal will change the entire trajectory and purpose of her life.
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang follows the classic enemies to lovers plot but with a twist. When Chloe, an overachieving student, finds out that her parents can no longer afford to pay for her fancy private school on the same day she finds out she can turn invisible, she is devastated. But out of desperation she decides to take advantage of her mysterious power and strikes a deal with the schools most popular guy who is also her academic rival. We follow her story as she tries to keep her entire life together.
This Time It’s Real by Ann Laing is an entertaining and gripping novel about a girl named Eliza. Having moved around a lot when she was younger due to her mom's job, Eliza did not have any close friends. When she is assigned to write an essay about her life she decides to make up a story about her non-existent love life. Unexpectedly her writing goes viral and now she is swarmed by people wondering who her boyfriend is.
The novel, This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune is a very warm story about friendship, promises, and love. Following the story of Lucy, we see how she navigates through life and now her newfound love. Lucy’s life has always been full of many ups and downs, but everything changes when she goes with her best friend to visit her best friend's family and before she knows it Lucy is in love with her best friend’s brother.
Teen Hazel Grace Lancaster has cancer. Having to constantly live, imagining that she might not wake up the next morning, is hard. Nevertheless, she tries her hardest to have as typical of a life as she possibly can. While at a cancer support group, Hazel Grace meets Augustus Waters who has his own troubles… and it’s love at first sight. This book follows their romance and their humanity.
Love and Gelato, written by Jenna Evan Welch follows Carolina (nicknamed Lina), a young girl who loses her mother to pancreatic cancer. Upon her death, her mother sends her to Florence, Italy to live with her supposed “father”, Howard. When she arrives, she is unpleasantly surprised to learn that she will now live in a graveyard. With everything seemingly going wrong, she plans to run away until she finds a journal her mother left behind that changes everything.
